OT: This Swift thing

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:07:18 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote:

> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 05/06/14 10:14, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
>>
>>> Type safety.
>>
>> Perhaps. Python has strong type safety.
> 
> Come on.

No, Sturla is correct. Python has strongly-typed values and dynamically-
typed variables, which means that you get type errors at run-time, not 
compile-time. But you still get type errors:

py> '1' + 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly


[...]
>> When I compile Cython modules I use LLVM on this computer.
> 
> Cython is not Python, it is another language, with an incompatible
> syntax.

Cython is best considered a superset of Python, with a pure-Python 
compatibility mode. It can run standard Python code.



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