Compile C program -> .pyc file

[Ernesto]

Is there a way to compile a C program into a .pyc file that has the
same behavior as the compiled C program?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Holden]

Is there a way to compile a C program into a .pyc file that has the
same behavior as the compiled C program?

Thanks!

Here's a start:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2003q1/000198.html

regards
Steve

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Is there a way to compile a C program into a .pyc file that has the
same behavior as the compiled C program?

unless you find a C->Python compiler, no. PYC files contain Python bytecode,
C compilers usually generate native code for a given machine platform.

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[Fredrik Lundh]

Here's a start:

http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2003q1/000198.html

if anyone could turn ideas that only exist in Christian's brain into working systems,
the world would look a lot different.

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[Ernesto]

unless you find a C->Python compiler, no. PYC files contain Python bytecode,
C compilers usually generate native code for a given machine platform.

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Yeah, I know it can't really be done in ONE step, but I was hoping it
was possible in 'n' steps.

 

[Grant Edwards]

unless you find a C->Python compiler, no.

Or a C->Python-byte-code compiler.

PYC files contain Python bytecode, C compilers usually
generate native code for a given machine platform.

Generating byte-code for a stack-based virtual machine used to
be fairly popular for Pascal. [I once typed in from a book a
Pascal compiler in 8080 assembly language that generate
P-code.] Generating Python byte code from Pascal wouldn't be
terribly difficult, but doing so for C would be pretty tough
because you'd have to figure out how to fake all the low-level
pointer shenanigans which C allows (or some would say depends
upon).