A Python Interpreter Written in Python

Article

• A bytecode interpreter for Python, written in Python — ~500 lines
• Implements a stack-based virtual machine executing CPython bytecode
• Part of the 500 Lines or Less AOSA book project

Discussion

• Commenters highlight the elegant getattr dispatch trick as worth studying for real interpreters
• Clarified it’s a bytecode interpreter, not a full parser — skips tokenizing/parsing
• Related projects byterun and x-python mentioned; metacircular interpreter comparisons made

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