Python and Jython are kinda different

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <87wu81jjg2.fsf at pobox.com>, John J. Lee wrote:
> Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> writes:
> [...]
>> Is there anyone here that works on Jython? Do you need help? What kind of
> 
> They certainly need help.

I suppose that was a redundant question. =)

>> help do you need? What's your estimation of the amount of work needed? Is
> 
> Asking on the Jython list seems like a good idea.

Yes. But I think that c.l.p is an appropriate place to bring this issue up
in general, because if CPython and Jython are truly--as they are often
represented in books and tutorials--just two implementations of the Python
language, we all ought to be more concerned with unifying them. I never see
Jython advertised as a limited subset of Python.

>> the work done with PyPy helpful? I'm really curious.
> 
> PyPy is a research effort, so not immediately useful.  It may have big
> payoffs if successful, of course.

Well, my thinking is that, since it's an implementation of Python written in
Python, many of the new features of CPython that don't require syntactical
or fundamental object-model changes could be ported from PyPy to Jython as a
temporary fix, to be eventually recoded in Java.

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