Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

[Travis Parks]

Hello:

I am currently working on designing a new programming language. It is
a compiled language, but I still want to use Python as a reference.
Python has a lot of similarities to my language, such as indentation
for code blocks, lambdas, non-locals and my language will partially
support dynamic programming.

Can anyone list a good introduction to the files found in the source
code? I have been poking around the source code for a little bit and
there is a lot there. So, I was hoping someone could point me to the
"good parts". I am also wondering whether some of the code was
generated because I see state transition tables, which I doubt someone
built by hand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It will be cool to see how the
interpreter works internally. I am still wonder whether designing the
language (going on 4 months now) will be harder than implementing it.

Thanks,
Travis Parks