Python compared to other language

[Steve Holden]

walterbyrd wrote:
> On May 19, 7:23 am, Steve Holden <s... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
>> The reason you can do this with Python is precisely because the
>> developers have ironed out the wrinkles between platforms by putting the
>> requisite conditionals in the C source.
> 
> But that is my point. With Python, the language itself takes care of
> the platform differences, so the same Python code will run on
> different platforms. I realize that, at a lower level, everything is
> done is C. But, from the developers point of view: developing code in
> C requires more attention to platform specifics, than does developing
> code in Python.
> 
That I can agree with, but it  isn't the same as "not portable". It 
would have been better to say "more difficult to port".

regards
  Steve
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