Compiler

[Terry Reedy]

"Maurice LING" <mauriceling at acm.org> wrote in message
news:408db4fb$1 at news.unimelb.edu.au...
> i was wondering just how different is the python bytecode from the java

For Jython, 'python bytecode' is jave bytecode.


> bytecode? is there a specification for python virtual machine or sort?

For CPython, see the documentation for the CPython-specific dis (assembly)
module.  Note that the details are x.y version specific, subject to change,
and not part of the language specification.  For 'interesting projects'
that have been posted, try googling for Python bytecode hacks.

Terry J. Reedy