Why Python?

[Rainer Deyke]

Ed Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:12:48 +0000, Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> 2. Python programs are somewhat difficult to distribute compared to
>> programs in languages that compile to native code.
>
> How do you figure this one?  Something to do with statically linked
> libraries?  (I'm a Python newbie, but have been programming in general
> for almost 20 years, about half of that professionally.)

Basically you have to distribute the Python interpreter along with your
program, since you generally can't rely on the end user having (the correct
version of) Python installed.


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