translating Python to Assembler

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-01-26, over at thepond.com <over at thepond.com> wrote:

> Once a python py file is compiled into a pyc file, I can disassemble
> it into assembler.

No you can't.  It's not native machine code.  It's byte code
for a virtual machine.

> Assembler is nothing but codes, which are combinations of 1's
> and 0's. You can't read a pyc file in a hex editor, but you
> can read it in a disassembler.

NO YOU CAN'T.

> It doesn't make a lot of sense to me right now,

That's because IT'S NOT MACHINE CODE.

> but if I was trying to trace through it with a debugger,

That wouldn't work.

> the debugger would disassemble it into assembler,
> not python.

You can "disassemble" random bitstreams into assembler.  That
doesn't make it a useful thing to do.

[Honestly, I think you're just trolling.]


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