[Python-ideas] CPython Bytecode Assembler

[MRAB]

On 2019-04-24 18:48, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Since bytecode is a CPython-specific implementaiton detail I don't know 
> if it makes sense to enshrine an assembler for it in the stdlib (if you 
> were to ask me today if I thought the dis module belonged in the stdlib 
> I would probably say "no", but I also know not everyone agrees with that 
> view :) .
> 
The dis module can help you understand what's happening below the 
surface; it's just that what happens below the surface is 
implementation-specific and can change between releases...

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:36 AM Batuhan Osman Taşkaya 
> <batuhanosmantaskaya at gmail.com <mailto:batuhanosmantaskaya at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Currently it is hard to assemble cpython bytecode without help of
>     3rd party libraries (like: vstinner/bytecode). I'm proposing an
>     assembler to standard library and an API to cpython's peephole
>     optimizer. Also an interface like `ast.NodeVisitor` and
>     `ast.NodeTransformer` for bytecode objects will may be handy.
> 
>     It would help if you are doing;
>     - Runtime patching
>     - Specific optimizations at bytecode level
>