Re: [Python-Dev] Introducing Python for CloudABI

2016-07-25 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hi Alex, CloudABI sounds interesting. I recall working on something vaguely similar at Google, for App Engine. But we didn't go so far as what you are doing here: changing the type of sys.path for example will instantly break so much Python code that it's not even possible to think about it. If y

[Python-Dev] Introducing Python for CloudABI

2016-07-25 Thread Alex Willmer
Morning all, I'm writing to introduce myself and a port of CPython 3.6 to a CloudABI. The port is reaching the point where it might be of interest to others. Namely it ran it's first .py script yesterday during the EuroPython scripts. Having said that it's still very early days, the patches do hor