[Python-Dev] Introduction

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On 23 May 2003, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 16:56, Jeffery Roberts wrote:
> > Thanks for all of your replies.  The front-end rewrite sounds especially
> > interesting. I'm going to look into that.  Is the entire front end
> > changing (ie scan/parse/ast) or just the AST structure ?
> > 
> > If you have any more information or directions please let me know.
> 
> The current plan is to create an AST and replace the bytecode compiler. 
> We're leaving a rewrite of the parser for a later project.  It's a
> fairly big project; large parts of it are done, but there is work
> remaining to do in nearly every part -- the concrete-to-abstract
> translator, error checking, compilation to byte-code.
> 
> At the moment, it's possible to start an interactive interpreter session
> and see what works.  But it isn't possible to compile and run all of
> site.py and everything it imports.
> 
> Jeremy
> 

Should patches just go to sourceforge's "parser/compiler" category, or 
will that create too much confusion?