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[Python-Dev] cpython and python debugger documentation

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 16:01:18 CEST 2014 
On Sat Jun 07 2014 at 5:55:29 PM, Le Pa <lpanl09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am interested in learning how the cpython interpreter is designed and
> implemented,
> and also how the python debugger works internally. My ultimate purpose is
> to
> modify
> them for my distributed computing needs. Are there any documentations
> on these please? I have done some goggling but failed to find anything
> useful.
>
> Thanks you very much for your help!
>

The only documentation we have is (roughly) how the parser and compiler
work, not the interpreter. As for pdb, it's written in Python so you can
look at the source to see how that works without much issue.
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