simple-mint VS CPython

If you want to see how the code is structured, check out the code repository.

As in, how are we parsing the Python code into an AST?

CPython uses a generated parser. The grammar is defined in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Grammar/python.g... which is used to generate the specification at https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html#full-gramma...

We use a hand-written parser, in Rust, based on the specification.

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Python: The Superpower of AI

I headed to the official Python website: python.org. Right on the homepage, there's a big, friendly yellow "Download Python" button — practically waving at you. I clicked it and downloaded the latest stable macOS installer.

As in my sibling comment, pypy has already done all this work.

CPython's struct module is just a shim importing the C implementations: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/struct.py

Pypy's is a Python(-ish) implementation, leveraging primitives from its own rlib and pypy.interpreter spaces: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/blob/main/pypy/module/struct/in...

The Python stdlib has enormous surface area, and of course it's also a moving target.

Python and some Bash scripts — for the enrichment logic and updates

If your version is 3.9 or above, you’re good to go. If not, download the latest version from python.org.

The quality of documentation is a known, highlighted concern in the community. There is particular interest in adopting Diataxis principles to improve documentation, both for Python itself and for packaging (see e.g. the user guide at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ , or the PyPA main site https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/ ).

If you want to help, there's a section on the Python forum (https://discuss.python.org/c/documentation/26) and a Discord server, and issues with documentation can also be reported on the main Python GitHub issue tracker (https://github.com/python/cpython/labels/docs).

Prior to having a bool type, Python didn't even have True/False keywords.

The reason something silly like `4 + True` works is because the bool type implements `tp_as_number` [0]. The reason it works this way is intentional because it would been a Python 3 str-style debacle if ints and bools were not interchangeable.

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/boolobje...

There's no mention of what Python version this is actually in.

After some digging, it looks like the answer is 3.14 [0], so we won't be seeing this until October [1].

One could argue that this is a security fix (just read the first sentence of the blog post) and should be included in all the currently supported Python versions (3.9+) [2].

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/whatsnew/3.1...

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/

[2] https://devguide.python.org/versions/