On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 10:18, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:09:07 +0000 > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But it's not as limiting as you suggest - it *does* preclude most > > scientific use (because of numpy etc) but (for example) a large number > > of web libraries are pure Python. > > Not sure what you mean here, but while Web frameworks themselves may be > pure Python, you can have C accelerators in a template engine or in a > ORM layer. Also, the database driver most likely isn't in pure Python > (if you want it to be performant anyway).
All I meant was that how limiting it is depends on what type of application you're trying to write. But there's no question that not being able to use C extensions limits use (I work on pip, which cannot rely on C extensions for other reasons, so I'm pretty familiar with (a) how much of a nuisance it is, and (b) how far you can get even with that limitation). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/O7NHRQGTOMJAF52AWYNJHT2II2L3ZIFJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
