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bjpop/berp

An implementation of Python 3
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/bjpop/berp
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Berp, an implementation of Python 3

Section titled “Berp, an implementation of Python 3”
Section titled “License and Copyright”

Berp is distributed as open source software under the terms of the BSD License (see the file LICENSE in the top directory).

Author: Bernie Pope, copyright 2009, 2010.

Contact information

Section titled “Contact information”

Email Bernie Pope: florbitous <at> gmail <dot> com

Building and installing

Section titled “Building and installing”

Berp uses the cabal infrastructure for configuring, building and installation.

To configure:

cabal configure

To build:

cabal build

To install:

cabal install

To clean:

cabal clean

Testing

Section titled “Testing”

Berp uses shelltestrunner for regression testing. Tests can be run like so:

make test

Shelltestrunner can be installed from Hackage:

cabal install shelltestrunner

Don’t worry if some tests fail.

Directory structure

Section titled “Directory structure”
---- src
     |
     |---- include                 # C header files
     |
     |---- Berp
           |
           |---- Base              # runtime primitives
           |     |
           |     |---- Builtins    # implementation of Python's builtins
           |     |
           |     |---- StdTypes    # standard Python classes
           |
           |---- Compile           # translator from Python to Haskell
           |
           |---- Interpreter       # interface to the GHC API


---- test
     |
     |---- regression              # regression tests
           |
           |---- features          # tests for specific language features
           |
           |---- programs          # Python programs