Byte-run: a Python interpreter written in Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> http://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html

Neat. But not really surprising IMO that it can fit into 500 lines,
since it doesn't handle compiling Python into bytecode (which is the
hard part) and doesn't include libraries. There doesn't seem to be
much purpose to this other than it being a toy project written for a
book.