Next step after pychecker

[Terry Reedy]

"Steven Bethard" <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:vvadnbwi6_bqjWLcRVn-vQ at comcast.com...
> I don't know much about what pychecker does, but if it works with the 
> bytecode, shouldn't it be fine for jython and IronPython?  I thought the 
> bytecode was part of the language spec, and what was CPython specific was 
> how the bytecodes were actually implemented...

Nothing about bytecode is part of the language spec.  And CPython bytecode 
is version specific.  If the CPython implementation changed from a virtual 
stack machine to a virtual register machine, as was once discussed, the 
stack-oriented byte code would be replaced by a register-oriented byte code 
or virtual machine language.

Jython compiles Python code to JVM (Java Virtual Machine) bytecode.  Parrot 
compile to Parrot bytecode.  Ironman compiles, I presume, to .Net CL or 
whatever it's called.

Terry J. Reedy