Why I love python.

[Nick Patavalis]

On 2004-08-13, kosh <kosh at aesaeion.com> wrote:
>
> Why is there a need for a stand alone executable? At least on all the unixes 
> whether something is executable is just determined by the executable bit on 
> the file. I can execute a python program just as transparently as one in 
> compiled c, c++,  etc. I really don't see the point of that.
>

Perhaps you target system has no Python environment installed. And
perhaps it has no resources to have a complete python environment
installed (appart from the fact that it might not need one). Don't
think of your 2GHz / 512MB desktop. Think of your cell-phone.