I really like Python but...

Bill Walker bwalker at earth1.net
Mon May 28 14:29:09 EDT 2001


If I new how to fix it, I would.

A command doesn't end in "please." Take a chill pill, Steve.


"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:uYvoxjt5AHA.196 at cpmsnbbsa07...
> > 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
>
>
>
>





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