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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