opcode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opcode

Compiler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

STL Containers

 http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/

prog: language translator

 such as a compiler or interpreter

Python: Symbol table

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/09/18/python-internals-symbol-tables-part-1/

In computer science, a symbol table is a data structure used by a language translator such as a compiler or interpreter, where each identifier in a program’s source code is associated with information relating to its declaration or appearance in the source, such as its type, scope level and sometimes its location.


A high-level view of the front-end of CPython is:

1. Parse source code into a parse tree
2. Transform parse tree into an Abstract Syntax Tree
3. Transform AST into a Control Flow Graph
4. Emit bytecode based on the Control Flow Graph

 Symbol tables are generated by the compiler from AST just before bytecode is generated. The symbol table is responsible for calculating the scope of every identifier in the code. symtable provides an interface to examine these tables.

prog: bytecode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode

Python source code is compiled into bytecode, the internal representation of a Python program in the CPython interpreter. The bytecode is also cached in .pyc and .pyo files so that executing the same file is faster the second time (recompilation from source to bytecode can be avoided). This “intermediate language” is said to run on a virtual machine that executes the machine code corresponding to each bytecode. Do note that bytecodes are not expected to work between different Python virtual machines, nor to be stable between Python releases.
(http://docs.python.org/glossary.html#term-bytecode)

Python: Coding style

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/