Inside The Python Virtual Machine

✍ Scribed by Obi Ike-Nwosu

• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
The View From 30,000ft
Compiling Python Source Code
From Source To Parse Tree
Python tokens
From Parse Tree To Abstract Syntax Tree
Building The Symbol Table
From AST To Code Objects
Python Objects
PyObject
Under the cover of Types
Type Object Case Studies
Minting type instances
Objects and their attributes
Method Resolution Order (MRO)
Code Objects
Exploring code objects
Code Objects within other code objects
Code Objects in the VM
Frames Objects
Allocating Frame Objects
Interpreter and Thread States
The Interpreter state
The Thread state
Intermezzo: The abstract.c Module
The evaluation loop, ceval.c
Putting names in place
The parts of the machine
The Evaluation loop
A sampling of opcodes
The Block Stack
A Short Note on Exception Handling
From Class code to bytecode
Generators: Behind the scenes.
The Generator object
Running a generator