Re: [Python-Dev] Cython as a Python implementation

2009-11-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
Stefan, I think your attempts to see Cython accepted as one of the major Python implementations is misguided. It is not self-contained, it is an add-on tool for CPython (like its ancestor PyRex). I think Cython is incredibly useful (and I spoke to many very happy users yesterday at UCB) but tryin

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython as a Python implementation

2009-11-05 Thread Stefan Behnel
Maciej Fijalkowski, 05.11.2009 19:01: >> Most Python implementations do not reimplement the stdlib, or at most a >> minor part of it, so that's right out of the discussion. > > Did you actually check? Well, I know that Jython uses the original stdlib modules through svn:externals in the build, la