I really like Python but...

[Steve Holden]

> From: "Bill Walker" <bwalker at earth1.net>

> It's absolutely the most thought-out and easy to program language that I
> have tried (starting with Fortran in the 70's up to Java recently);
HOWEVER,
> I
> can't get too excited about it until a true compiler for Python comes
along.
> I'll accept even a decent byte-code compiler that locks up all the
modules,
> dlls, etc, into one exe. No, py2exe doesn't work well; especially with
> tkinter -- leaves out modules.

Have you ever distributed a C or C++ program for the Windows platforms?
Haven't you noticed that can be a problem too, for just the same reasons?

> Without this capability it is just too hard to distribute code to any but
> those that already have Python installed (which are usually other
> programmers.)
>
> Somebody work on this, please...

"Oh, yes, by the way, my back yard is dirty, someone sweep it, please ..."

A constructive proposal to fix this might be better received than a
peremptory command. You do realize that Python is open source, I trust? Work
on it yourself, please ...

regards
 Steve