Python Worst Practices

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/02/2015 15:46, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> It also makes me wonder what idiot decided to use C as the language for the
>> first Python implementation? Or was it written in something else and then
>> ported?
>
> Guido, probably. And what other language would you suggest? What other
> language has comparably extensive multi-platform support? Writing a
> Python implementation in C instantly makes Python available on all
> sorts of platforms, with direct access to native libraries on all of
> them. For example, CPython on Windows can make use of a whole bunch of
> Microsoft's win32 APIs, via the pywin32 extensions; meanwhile, CPython
> on Linux can use the inotify functions, again via an extension module
> (pyinotify or python-inotify). Jython doesn't offer that, as far as I
> know; or rather, Jython offers access to Java classes rather than to C
> libraries, and there are a lot more of the latter than the former. Of
> all the languages that offer convenient access to the same sorts of
> libraries that C code can (generally, those that compile to machine
> code and use the same kinds of linker information), which would you
> suggest as being better than C?
>
> C may not be perfect, but it's pretty decent at what it does.
>
> ChrisA
>

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Mark Lawrence