On 22/11/2018 06:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I don't know of any non-free (free as in beer, or free as in speech)
> implementations of Python. Can you elaborate?
There are several commercial distributions (as opposed to
implementations) of Python, that may be what Avi has in mind.
Some of these
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:59AM -0500, Avi Gross wrote:
> Alan has been involved with Python for a long time so he has more to offer
> historically.
I've been involved with Python for a long time too. What exactly are you
trying to say?
> Can I ask a question that I really want an opinion o
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 10:31, Avi Gross wrote:
>
> Is there room for a smaller core
> language that remains good for teaching purposes and that is small enough to
> fit in a Rasberry pi, while other versions are of industrial strength? Do we
> already sort of have some of that?
What comes stock
On 11/21/18 5:54 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 21/11/2018 16:31, Avi Gross wrote:
>> An obvious speedup might be had by starting up N threads with each opening
>> one file and doing what I said above into one shared process with N
>> variables now available. But will it be faster?
>
> Tryi
On 21/11/2018 16:31, Avi Gross wrote:
> Alan has been involved with Python for a long time so he has more to offer
> historically.
I'm not so sure about that, several folks on this list
have been around longer than me. And I don't follow the
main comp.lang.python list that closely.
I'm simply giv
Alan has been involved with Python for a long time so he has more to offer
historically.
I don't see some things as either/or. You can start with one major
motivation and it morphs from a one-celled creature like an Amoeba to a
complex vertebrate like a Python which needs modules added so it can w
