PLT Spy Status

Spy consists of a lexer/parser, a code generator, a runtime system, and a foreign function interface. The following is the status of each:

Lexer/Parser

• Reads valid Python programs.
• Currently produces positional error messages

Compiler

• Compiles most Python programs.
• Does not handle yield or exec statements yet.

Runtime System

• Using CPython's runtime system as much as possible.
• Experimental stages of Python C extension support.