[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 unfor

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 oth