RFC: name for project of a cross version disassembler, and unmarshal program

[Pete Forman]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:38:41 PM UTC+5:30, rocky wrote:
>> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 2:17:07 AM UTC-4, Pete Forman wrote:
>> > rocky  writes:
>> >
>> > > I'm looking for a good name for a relatively new project I'll put
>> > > on pypy.
>> > >
>> > > I've been working on a module to disassemble Python bytecode from
>> > > many versions of Python. (Right now 2.3 .. 3.5 bytecode, largely
>> > > works.)
>> > >
>> > > Of course, in order to do that you also need routines to
>> > > unmarshal bytecode. So that's in there as well.
>> > >
>> > > In the future, I may could add a marshaler and an assembler to
>> > > Python bytecode. I know, this is kind of perverse.
>> > >
>> > > At any rate the name I've been using is "pyxdis". See
>> > > https://github.com/rocky/python-pyxdis.
>> > >
>> > > In the past I've been told by Polish-speaking people that my
>> > > names are hard to pronounce. (If you've ever heard any Polish
>> > > tongue twisters, you'll know that this really hurts.)
>> > >
>> > > Any suggestions for a better name?
>> >
>> > relipmoc
>> >
>> > --
>> > Pete Forman
>>
>> Interesting. (For those who are slow like myself, it is "compile"
>> backwards.

Well it's actually "compiler" but I'd not be offended if you want to
develop the idea.

> Heh! I also wondered...
> And if you are into that kinda stuff, how about:   ɔoɯdᴉlǝ  ? (¿)

I did consider suggesting that but it falls foul of PEP 426. PyPI is not
yet ready to dip its toes outside of the confines of ASCII. [wry smile
emoji deleted]

-- 
Pete Forman