[Tutor] Is python just a scripting language?

Gerrit Holl Gerrit Holl <gerrit@nl.linux.org>
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:48:41 +0100


Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> 
> > I could have misunderstood something, but I thought the .pyc files were
> > hardware platform (and perhaps OS) specific? I don't think this is such a
> > great thing to limit.
> 
> They're not -- they're merely marhalled code objects. They're specific to a 
> Python version, but that's not so horrible.

Agreed,

> (Actually, 90% of my code won't work on Python 1.5.1, so for me,
> it's not even a musquito bite)

Well, as long as you don't use functions from the latest CVS tree :-)

regards,
Gerrit.
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