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by bnasty576 4244 days ago
What is this used for? This went right over my head.
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maxerickson 4244 days ago
The byte code here is an implementation detail of an interpreter for the Python programming language. Wikipedia seems to have decent coverage:

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

Someone at Coverity would likely be interested in understanding it to use in analyzing source code. They use automatic analysis to find defects.

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RubyPinch 4244 days ago
an example that comes to mind, Pony ORM uses it to convert a generator expression to SQL, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16115713/how-pony-orm-do...
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