Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-05 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 05.11.2015 00:14, Alexander Walters wrote: > To be absolutely clear, Nuitka and Cython are not implementations of the > language... because you > cannot run anything with them. Can you really call it a language runtime if > you cant run anything > with them? they are tooling. It is

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-05 Thread Alexander Walters
They don't implementanything. Guido implemented it. but it is SUPREMELY unhelpful to list them as stand alone third party implementations of python, SINCE THEY ACTUALLY REQUIRE ANOTHER PYTHON TO RUN! You CANNOT run a Nuitka module without libpython being installed. 'standalone mode'

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-05 Thread Alexander Walters
Stackless is an alternative C python. It actually ships all of python. Stackless is a fork. './path/to/stackless/pythonthon mymodule.py' runs the module. Cython ships none of python. Cython requires that you already have a python installed, and uses python as a library. './path/to/cython

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-04 Thread Alexander Walters
To be absolutely clear, Nuitka and Cython are not implementations of the language... because you cannot run anything with them. Can you really call it a language runtime if you cant run anything with them? they are tooling. It is unhelpful to new users to list this tooling as an

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-04 Thread Alexander Walters
Nuitka and Cython cant really be called alternate implementations of c python, since they kind of require c python to run. They are tooling at best. On 10/29/2015 05:21, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Some implementations which are not listed on the page: Alternative CPython: HotPy -

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 31.10.2015 22:23, Alexander Walters wrote: > Nuitka and Cython cant really be called alternate implementations of c > python, since they kind of > require c python to run. They are tooling at best. I'm not sure I follow. Cython runs all Python code, plus manages extensions for more easily

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:48 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Anyone feel like helping with this ? I don't know most of those Pythons, so aside from mechanically lifting content from the wiki, there's not a lot I can do. ChrisA ___

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-11-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Anyone feel like helping with this ? On 29.10.2015 10:21, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Some implementations which are not listed on the page: > > Alternative CPython: > > HotPy - https://sites.google.com/site/makingcpythonfast/ > Pyston - http://blog.pyston.org/ > Cython - http://cython.org/ > Nuitka

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-10-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 29.10.2015 09:55, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > There's currently a ticket open for the alternative implementations > page: > > https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/842 > > The page currently lists a few variants of Python implementations, > but is not up to date with more recent

Re: [pydotorg-www] List of alternative Python implementations

2015-10-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Some implementations which are not listed on the page: Alternative CPython: HotPy - https://sites.google.com/site/makingcpythonfast/ Pyston - http://blog.pyston.org/ Cython - http://cython.org/ Nuitka - http://nuitka.net/ Python for embedded devices: MicroPython - https://micropython.org/