This project surveys and catalogues tools related to meta-circularity in relation to the Python programming language. Meta-circularity is considered in a very wide sense, as tools written in Python dealing with processing of the Python language itself. This ranges from meta-circular evaluators (interpreters) to multi-level and multi-stage compilers. The focus is on the simple, reusable tools which can be combined to implement arbitrary complex and advanced processing.
Also known as lexical analyzers.
- Python standard library includes tokenize module.
Parsing to AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and CST (Concrete Syntax Tree).
- Python stdlib allows to parse Python source (as string) to AST using
ast.parse().
- Python has a builtin function to compile Python source or AST to bytecode:
compile().
This list is compiled and maintained by Paul Sokolovsky, and released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).