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[Python-Dev] cpython and python debugger documentation

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 18:26:25 CEST 2014 
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:01:18 +0000
> Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> But doing attentive googling will turn out a lot of 3rd-party blog
> posts which discuss various implementation aspects of CPython (and even
> alternative implementations). Some random links:
>
> http://tech.blog.aknin.name/category/my-projects/pythons-innards/
>
> http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/09/18/python-internals-symbol-tables-part-1/
>

FWIW I have a bunch of those, and the symbol table one is probably not the
best for beginners. The whole category is here:
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/python-internals/

Eli
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