Hi, 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?) > I don't think so. RPython is a statically typed language, even if types are not explicit in the code, but determined by the translator. For example, os.open() accepts a string for its first argument, so it cannot accept unicode. A RPython library would be quite different from the CPython standard library. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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