Developer documentation

This documentation is designed to help developers get familiar with how Pyccel’s internals are organised.

Developer Guide:

• Getting Started
• Developer Setup
  • Overview
  • Error System
  • Getting Help
• Development Conventions
  • Define variables for class properties
  • Disabling Pylint
  • Slots
  • Class variables vs. Instance variables
• How to approach issues
  • Adding New Functions
  • Language Specific Bug Fixes
• Tips and Tricks
• Review Process
  • Review Stage Labels
• Testing
  • Functionality tests
  • Static analysis
• Syntactic Stage
  • Navigation and AST Creation
  • Errors
  • Headers
  • Scoping
  • History
• Semantic Stage
  • Navigation
  • Types
  • Impose Restrictions
  • Function Recognition
  • Imports
  • Low-level Objects
  • Object Tree
  • Name Collisions
• Code Generation stage
  • _print
  • _format_code
  • Language-specific semantics
  • Adding variables
  • Declarations
  • Imports
  • Loop unravelling
  • C-specific problems
  • Fortran-specific problems
  • Python-specific problems
• Wrapper stage
  • _wrap
  • Name Collisions
  • Fortran To C
  • C To Python
• AST nodes
  • Typed AST Node
  • Pyccel Internal Function
  • Constructing a tree
• ndarrays memory layout (order)
  • Order in NumPy
  • Pyccel’s C code
  • Pyccel’s Fortran code
• Scope
  • ScopedAstNode
  • Name collisions
  • Locating objects in the scope
• Tuples
• Type inference
  • Syntactic Stage
  • Semantic Stage