Esoteric Interpreter in Python

Question

Related to question at How to run Esoteric Language ZOMBIE

I realize there is an interpreter ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/User:Marinus/ZOMBIE_interpreter )to run the ZOMBIE language in a python environment, what I don't understand is how to use the interpreter (or any interpreter in general).

Do I save this in a .py file and use the import command? Or execFile? Then just write code in ZOMBIE?

Answer 1

This interpreter is written in Python, so save it as zombie.py. Write your ZOMBIE program in a separate file, something like myzombiefile.z. If you are running it on Windows, you'll need to run it using python as in:

python zombie.py myzombiefile.z

If you are running on Linux, you can just chmod zombie.py to be executable using:

chmod +x zombie.py

and then have it interpret your ZOMBIE program using:

zombie.py myzombiefile.z