[Python-Dev] How to build Python 2.6.2 on HP-UX Itanium with thread support?

2009-05-13 Thread henning . vonbargen 
How to build Python 2.6.2 on HP-UX Itanium with thread support?
Note: I know that the first address to post this question is comp.lang.python, 
but
I posted this question a week ago on comp.lang.python
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7006ad8e5cf81e8)
and unfortunately, I didn't receive any answers.

According to Patch 1225212, 
at least Peter Kropf was able to get Python running with threading support 
on this platform, though AFAIK he was not using GCC.

But I guess it should be possible with GCC as well.

Is anyone able to confirm that Python (built with GCC)
does or does not work with multi-threading on HP-UX Itanium?

Is HP-UX Itanium a supported platform at all?
BTW: A search for "supported platforms" at www.python.org does not help!

And if it does work, which steps need to be taken to build it,
e.g. other libraries/packages, environment variables, 
configure options, manual modifications?

Henning

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Re: [Python-Dev] removing the new and types modules

2007-11-28 Thread henning . vonbargen 
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but are there actually good reasons to remove 
"types"?
IMHO the types module helps keeping code readable. 
For example
"if type(obj) == FloatType"
is just more readable than
"if type(obj) == type(1.0)".
Luckily Python does not distinguish float and double like other languages 
 - otherwise it wouldn't be clear for the average programmer if 1.0 is a
 float or a double constant.

Henning

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