GNU python?

[Martijn Faassen]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> Maxwell Sayles wrote:
> >
> > Looking to try out python... is there a GNU python for Win9x?  and a
> > tutorial maybe?
> 
> Not sure just how a GNU Python would differ from the real thing, 

* It'd only come with the GNU Public license. 

* GNU Python would use the GNU coding style guidelines (in Python!)

* It'd be used for Emacs extensions.

* It'd do all those functional programming things. Closures and macros
and so on.

* Zope wouldn't have been developed because of the GPL, and then would
never have been opensourced.

* No COM support, unless provided by Cygnus. 

* Cygnus comes with 'peggton', an experimental development adding static
type checking and more optimizations. 

* Any product of <name> would have to be called GNU-Python <name>,
because after all the total size of the library modules imported by that
product would be larger than the product code itself. 

Actually-I-like-the-FSF-ly yours,

Martijn