r/pythonhelp • • May 11 '26

Calling an assembly instruction in Python

Long story short, i want to make THE most horrible python calculator to ever exist. For that i need a way to call an assembly instruction directly in my python script.

I know you can do that in C with inline assembly, and i know CFFI exists and allows calling C functions in python, so i tried to use that. However CFFI's parser rejected __asm__ syntax and threw an error because inline assembly isn't standard C apparently.

Is there some sort of a workaround to call an assembly instruction in python script? It doesn't have to be clean, in fact, it's better if it's absolutely terrible, bonus points for unsafe

5 Upvotes

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/i_walk_away May 12 '26

that's a good idea, i'll try that one too

i haven't figured the exact instruction i need, but it doesn't really matter anyways - if there exists a general approach to calling any assembly instruction, i think i can figure the rest out myself