Re: PEP 3107 and stronger typing (note: probably a newbie question)

[harri]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
[...]
>
> It seems obvious from this that static typecheking would require
> dropping all dynamism from Python - then turning it into another, very
> different (and mostly useless as far as I'm concerned) language. IOW :
> you can't have Python *and* static typechecks - both are mutually
> exclusive. Hence my answer : if you want static typecheking, you'll have
> to use another language - one way or another.

Well, static typing for me is usually the way to get the last speed
required once the
algorithmic improvements are exhausted.

The language Pyrex uses combines dynamic and static typing in a very
useful manner.

"Practicality beats purity"

Harri

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Re: Populating a dictionary, fast [SOLVED SOLVED]

[harri]

On Nov 15, 9:51 pm, "Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Since some people missed the EUREKA!, here's the executive summary:
>
> Python2.3: about 45 minutes
> Python2.4: about 45 minutes
> Python2.5: about _30 seconds_


FYI, I tried on two 64 bit SMP machines (4 way and 2 way), running
Mandriva 2007 and 2008


2.6.17-6mdv #1 SMP Wed Oct 25 12:17:57 MDT 2006 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm)
Processor 280 GNU/Linux
Python 2.4.3 (#2, May  7 2007, 15:15:17)
[GCC 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk)] on linux2


2.6.23.1-1mdvsmp #1 SMP Sat Oct 20 18:04:52 EDT 2007 x86_64 Intel(R)
Core(TM)2 CPU  6400  @ 2.13GHz GNU/Linux
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 13 2007, 09:02:56)
[GCC 4.2.1 20070828 (prerelease) (4.2.1-6mdv2008.0)] on linux2


I could not reproduce the problem with Steven's test file id2name.txt
on either.
sendspace seems to be over capacity, so I haven't been able download
your
keys.txt.

I wonder if this might not be a glibc issue?
If you own built python 2.5 linked with the same glibc version as the
system python?

What does
ldd /usr/bin/python
say vs.
ldd /usr/local/bin/python

?

Harri



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