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Python to RPN converter
06-24-2018, 10:56 PM
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RE: Python to RPN converter
Hi Thomas,

How interesting that you built something similar! You program scans Python generated Bytecode whilst my program works earlier in the pipeline, at the AST stage:

[Image: hacking-python-asts-pycon-de-2017-suhas-...1513846800]

So yes, my program does rely on the Python compiler. Specifically my approach has been to use Python's built in ability to parse itself into an AST Abstract Syntax Tree, then to traverse this tree using the visitor design pattern to generate the RPN.

For example, the following Python code:
Code:
import ast
import astunparse
print(astunparse.dump(ast.parse('x = 1 + 2')))
will generate the following AST data structure representing x = 1 + 2:
Code:
Module(body=[Assign(
  targets=[Name(
    id='x',
    ctx=Store())],
  value=BinOp(
    left=Num(n=1),
    op=Add(),
    right=Num(n=2)))])

If you are interested, here are the slides of a recent talk I gave to a local Python User Group in Melbourne, Australia, about how I used the Python AST capabilities to build the Python to Rpn converter. The reception to the talk was good, but became fun and buoyant once the audience realised I had targeted an old HP calculator with this fancy Python technology - especially when I pulled out my HP calcs for all to see and touch.

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Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-16-2018, 05:27 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - pier4r - 02-16-2018, 06:26 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - salvomic - 02-16-2018, 09:47 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - rprosperi - 02-16-2018, 02:34 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - charger73 - 02-16-2018, 02:38 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Nigel (UK) - 02-16-2018, 03:04 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-16-2018, 11:06 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - compsystems - 02-17-2018, 01:06 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-18-2018, 09:21 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-18-2018, 10:27 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-18-2018, 02:32 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-18-2018, 09:25 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Okken - 02-18-2018, 12:59 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-18-2018, 01:13 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-19-2018, 07:16 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-19-2018, 07:29 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-19-2018, 07:48 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-19-2018, 08:17 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - pier4r - 02-19-2018, 11:15 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-19-2018, 07:36 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - StephenG1CMZ - 02-20-2018, 02:28 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 02-20-2018, 10:39 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - MikeOShea - 06-01-2018, 01:39 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Klemm - 06-23-2018, 10:33 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 06-24-2018 10:56 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Klemm - 06-25-2018, 05:00 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Klemm - 06-28-2018, 04:07 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Klemm - 06-28-2018, 08:04 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 11-02-2018, 04:43 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Namir - 11-03-2018, 07:32 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 11-04-2018, 06:06 AM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Thomas Okken - 11-04-2018, 02:02 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 11-04-2018, 10:25 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - Namir - 11-04-2018, 08:07 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 11-04-2018, 09:59 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - cdmackay - 12-11-2018, 07:05 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - tcab - 12-11-2018, 10:46 PM
RE: Python to RPN converter - cdmackay - 12-11-2018, 11:27 PM
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