2009/12/17 Olli Wang <[email protected]>: > Hi, I was trying to develop a tiny application using RPython and I have a > few of questions. Obviously, RPython has the advantage of translating the > code to various backends so we can get much better performance than Python > scripts running on top of any Python implementation, so I was wondering, is > it possible to rewrite the full Python's standard library using RPython so > people can treat RPython as a general purpose programming language? (is that > a good idea?)
We intend RPython to be a language for writing interpreters not as a general purpose programming language. > BTW, in my tiny experiment application. I want to create an empty file and > write something there. Unfortunately, the open() function is not supported > in RPython and the os.open() can't create a new file if not existed. So how > do I `touch` a new file in RPython? Thanks. You're probably not passing the right flags to os.open. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
