Assembly Interpreter/Embedding C

[Guido van Rossum]

Jeff Shipman - UC <jeff at nmt.edu> writes:

> I am building an interactive Intel Assembly interpreter using Python. I
> am now needing to add the part where my binary code is taken, loaded
> into memory and executed. I've heard the only way of doing this is to
> use C.

I question what you've been told.  Python has perfectly fine built-in
tools for reading binary data from a file, e.g. the struct module and
the "rb" open mode.  Where is the need for using an extension?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)