tiny python

Remco Gerlich scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.cx
Tue Dec 7 19:56:48 EST 1999


François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Is it possible to build a python interpreter which just reads byte code?
> 
> To spare lexing/scanning sources?  Contest rules should tell what input
> format is acceptable.  It could be real sources, `.pyc' as produced by C
> Python, or maybe some other representation (like a Scheme-readable tree),
> but the representation could be chosen to convey part of the interpreter:
> I'm not sure where cheating would begin.
> 
> Just thinking loud.  Do not read this message :-)  [Only now he says it?]

I'd say, it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you can use an arbitary
high level language (C or up, .pyc code counts as up), and as long as it's
*very* *small* *in total*. That's how I read his post, anyway.

No clue how to do that, though.
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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.cx
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