[Tutor] bytecode primer, and avoiding a monster download

[Jim Mooney]

Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>

> What do you want these for? I've never needed to know what the
> interpreter's bytecodes are.

I programmed A86 Assembler years ago, and just find the bytecode has a
comfortable clarity as a learning tool, at least for me. When an
author vaguely tried to explain that a Name in Python is not the Data,
it confused me at first what he meant. But I could literally see the
disjunction in bytecode. I'm sure it's not for everyone - just aging
Assembler hackers ;')

Thanks for the Python(x,y) tip. That's probably useful for other stuff, too.

-- 
Jim Mooney

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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/17/1301760110.abstract?sid=8313cec8-3ee0-47a0-9488-5bc33983b081