Inside The Python Virtual Machine

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