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Out of curiosity I would like to see the assembly instructions that correspond to the code of a .py file. Are there any trustworthy solutions you can propose?
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Double-clicking a . py script will execute the script (and may not send any useful results to the screen). To view the source you can open a . py file with IDLE (which comes with Python) or even Notepad although a more advanced text editor or IDE is recommended.
Python itself generates a intermediate code for it's virtual machine. If you want to have a look at this code, use the dis module from the Python standard library. This generates a assembly-like representation of your Python function.
Source code: Lib/dis.py. The dis module supports the analysis of CPython bytecode by disassembling it. The CPython bytecode which this module takes as an input is defined in the file Include/opcode. h and used by the compiler and the interpreter.
The dis module disassembles code objects (extracting those from functions, classes and objects with a __dict__ namespace).
This means you can use it to disassemble whole modules:
import dis
dis.dis(dis)
although this isn't nearly as interesting as you may think as most modules contain several functions and classes, leading to a lot of output.
I usually focus on smaller functions with specific aspects I am interested in; like what bytecode is generated for a chained comparison:
def f(x):
return 1 < x ** 2 < 100
dis.dis(f)
for example.
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