Re: CLPython (was Re: merits of Lisp vs Python)

2006-12-14 Thread Willem Broekema
Paul Boddie wrote: What would it take to get Python people more interested in it? I've been monitoring the site [1] and the mailing list [2] for some time, but nothing particularly visible seems to be happening. Well, judging from the reactions on blogs to the initial announcement here, quite

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-13 Thread Willem Broekema
Paul Rubin wrote: Does this count as a children of a lesser Python? This sounds like a quite derogatory first question. CLPython is not a dead and abandoned project, nor is execution speed its main goal, nor are Python semantics bended anywhere (it can run the Pie-thon benchmark). Sure, some

Re: Create a variable on the fly

2005-07-27 Thread Willem Broekema
Steve M: locals()['OSCAR'] = 'the grouch' OSCAR 'the grouch' Use globals, not locals: globals()['OSCAR'] = 'the grouch' because http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html states: locals() Update and return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table.