Re: Python compiled by tcc

2017-05-21 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 21.05.17 um 12:38 schrieb bartc: On 21/05/2017 10:32, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Am 18.05.17 um 10:10 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: The whole discussion reminds me of the "bumblebees can't fly" thing. tcc is a very small compiler (some 100kb) which supports most of C99. For what it's

Re: Python compiled by tcc

2017-05-21 Thread bartc
On 21/05/2017 10:32, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: Am 18.05.17 um 10:10 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: The whole discussion reminds me of the "bumblebees can't fly" thing. tcc is a very small compiler (some 100kb) which supports most of C99. For what it's worth, I compiled Python 3.6.1 on

Python compiled by tcc

2017-05-21 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 18.05.17 um 10:10 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer: The whole discussion reminds me of the "bumblebees can't fly" thing. tcc is a very small compiler (some 100kb) which supports most of C99. For what it's worth, I compiled Python 3.6.1 on Linux/x86 using tcc. It was a simple matter of

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-24 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-24 Thread Larry Hastings
Larry Hastings added the comment: Pull request accepted and merged. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-15 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Here's the pull request: https://bitbucket.org/larry/cpython350/pull-requests/4/21167-fix-definition-of-nan-when-icc-used/diff -- status: closed - open ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-13 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset d9c85b6bab3a by R David Murray in branch '2.7': #21167: Fix definition of NAN when ICC used without -fp-model strict. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d9c85b6bab3a New changeset 5e71a489f01d by R David Murray in branch '3.4': #21167: Fix

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks Chris, and Mark. I ran the tests on 3.6 both on Linux (non ICC) and on Mac (with ICC without -fp-model strict) and all the tests passed. -- resolution: - fixed stage: - resolved status: open - closed ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Larry, do you want this for 3.5.0a2? It's an innocuous patch for anyone not using ICC, and makes ICC just work (with the default ICC build arguments) for people using ICC. (Well, on (lin/u)nux and mac, anyway, I'm not sure we've resolved all the ICC issues

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-13 Thread Larry Hastings
Larry Hastings added the comment: Assuming that ICC_NAN_STRICT is only on for Intel icc: yes, please. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I've applied this patch to 2.7 on OSX and compiled without -fp-model strict, and all of the tests now pass. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Now, what's the equivalent patch for python3? Should I open a new issue for that? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-12 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Nevermind, I forgot to try and see if it applied...and it does :) -- versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-12 Thread Chris Hogan
Chris Hogan added the comment: From Clark Nelson: In my opinion, exactly how and where the macro is defined that indicates our conformance to the FP standard doesn't really matter. The point is that it is our intention to conform, at least to some degree and under some circumstances.

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-11 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Note that Chris' patch is coming from Intel. (The ICC buildbots are currently building with -fp-model strict, by the way.) Mark, Stefan, what do you think? Is this a good idea? IIUC we would then not have to worry about differentiating between the python

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-11 Thread Chris Hogan
Chris Hogan added the comment: Producing NaN by Py_HUGE_VAL / Py_HUGE_VAL as in the suggested patch is unsafe as it can generate a FP exception during runtime. Also aggresive compiler FP optimizations can eliminate this calculation on compile-time. For this reason, we've used constant

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-08-11 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: Looks fine to me. IIRC, we moved the PyFloat_FromString implementation away from using Py_NAN in Python 3 for exactly this reason. On this point, though: An aggressively optimizing compiler could treat 0 * x = 0 no matter what x is. Wouldn't such a

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-02-19 Thread Scholes C
Scholes C added the comment: please disregard , the issue is resolved with your patch. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2015-02-19 Thread Scholes C
Scholes C added the comment: HI, can you please look into this ? thanks. icc builds of python 2.7 seem to have issues handling nan, inf, etc $ /usr/local/python-2.7.6/bin/python Python 2.7.6 (default, Jan 10 2014, 12:14:02) [GCC Intel(R) C++ gcc 4.1 mode] on linux2 Type help, copyright,

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-10-14 Thread Stefan Krah
Changes by Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org: -- nosy: -skrah ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-05-24 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: Note that defaulting to unsafe math in extensions will make *their* use of the Py_NAN macro break under icc. If we go that route (-fp-model strict for Python build, but not for extensions), we should also apply the attached patch that defines Py_NAN as

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-16 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: Using -fp-model strict (or other appropriate icc flag) seems like a reasonable resolution. It should likely also be applied to Python 3.x, despite the version field of this issue. (Even if float('nan') happens to work in current 3.x, internal code that

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-16 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Mark, if you agree that fp-model strict should not show up in the distutils CFLAGS once Python is installed, the issue now depends on #21121. -- dependencies: +-Werror=declaration-after-statement is added even for extension modules through setup.py

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: Sure, if that's really the expectation. I'm not sure I'd want any of *my* extension modules being built with non-strict FP, but there's a bit of a personal bias there. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-16 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I quite agree, and it's hard to tell what users want. Basically I'm afraid of a bug report C extension using unsafe math got slower in Python-3.5. I would find either decision reasonable. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
New submission from Hrvoje Nikšić: On a Python compiled with Intel C compiler, float('nan') returns 0.0. This behavior can be reproduced with icc versions 11 and 12. The definition of Py_NAN in include/pymath.h expects `HUGE_VAL * 0.0` to compile to a NaN value on IEEE754 platforms

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread STINNER Victor
Changes by STINNER Victor victor.stin...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: Did you compile with -fp-model strict? IIRC icc is not IEEE-754 compliant by default. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Jurica Bradarić
Changes by Jurica Bradarić jbrada...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +jbradaric ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: What's `sys.float_repr_style` for this build? For Python 3.5 and short float repr, `float('nan')` shouldn't even be using Py_NAN. It should land in _Py_parse_inf_or_nan in pystrtod.c, which uses `_Py_dg_stdnan` to get the NaN value directly from a suitable

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: sys.float_repr_style is 'short'. I haven't actually tried this in Python 3.5, but I did note the same definition of Py_NAN (which is used elsewhere in the code), so I tagged the issue as likely also present in 3.x. --

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: The compilation was performed with the default flags, i.e. without -fp-model strict or similar. If Python requires strict IEEE 754 floating-point, it should probably be mentioned at a prominent place in the documentation. Administrators building Python with

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: I tagged the issue as likely also present in 3.x. So I believe that this particular issue (float('nan') giving zero) should not be present on Python 3.4 or above. The bogus definition of Py_NAN will still cause problems in some math and cmath return values,

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: If Python requires strict IEEE 754 floating-point, It doesn't (at the moment). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: -- versions: -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21167 ___ ___

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Hrvoje Nikšić
Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: Mark: If Python requires strict IEEE 754 floating-point, It doesn't (at the moment). Does this imply that my patch is a better fix than requiring the builder to specify -fp-model strict to icc? For our use case either solution is valid. For administrators

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: It doesn't (at the moment). Sorry; that was an unhelpful kneejerk reply. There are two aspects to this. (1) Currently, at least in theory, CPython doesn't require IEEE 754 *at all*: in theory, it should work with whatever floating-point format the

[issue21167] float('nan') returns 0.0 on Python compiled with icc

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I agree we should add -fp-model strict to the icc build flags, provided that there is a way that it does not show up in the distutils flags. Apparently icc users want unsafe fast math by default, so this flag should probably not be enforced in extension module

Re: Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-14 Thread Tim Golden
On 14/10/2013 06:41, chandan kumar wrote: I'm working on a python project for protocol testing.I need to provide only python compiled source to our customer. Here are the steps followed to take python compiled from actual source. 1.There are 5 different test suites under the project 2..Run

Re: Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-14 Thread chandan kumar
wrote: On 14/10/2013 06:41, chandan kumar wrote: I'm working on a python project for protocol testing.I need to provide only python compiled source to our customer. Here are the steps followed to take python compiled from actual source. 1.There are 5 different test suites under the project

Re: Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-14 Thread chandan kumar
2013 1:10 PM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 14/10/2013 06:41, chandan kumar wrote: I'm working on a python project for protocol testing.I need to provide only python compiled source to our customer. Here are the steps followed to take python compiled from actual source

Re: Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-14 Thread Tim Golden
[Please post your answer below the previous reply, not above] [... snip most of original traceback ...] File C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pyExcelerator\CompoundDoc.py, line 554, in save f = file(filename, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename:

Re: Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-14 Thread Alister
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:41:35 +0800, chandan kumar wrote: Now my question is of there any issue with logging to excel it should happen for the first test suite itself,but it occurs in either 2,3,4 or 5 test suite. Some it runs without any issues. Logging to excel is probably a wrong thing to

Query on Python Compiled source--Urgent

2013-10-13 Thread chandan kumar
Hi, I'm working on a python project for protocol testing.I need to provide only python compiled source to our customer. Here are the steps followed to take python compiled from actual source. 1.There are 5 different test suites under the project 2..Run all 5  test suite with python sources. 3

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with clang

2011-10-04 Thread Ned Deily
Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org: -- assignee: ronaldoussoren - ned.deily stage: - committed/rejected status: pending - closed title: Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm - Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with clang

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Joshua Bleecher Snyder
to http://bugs.python.org/issue11149? -- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: Build, Installation, Library (Lib), Macintosh messages: 144604 nosy: josharian, ronaldoussoren priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org added the comment: Possibly related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11149? Maybe I missed it in the links you gave, but that is easily settled by compiling with and without -fwrapv. -- nosy: +skrah ___ Python

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Joshua Bleecher Snyder
Joshua Bleecher Snyder joshar...@gmail.com added the comment: Possibly related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11149? Maybe I missed it in the links you gave, but that is easily settled by compiling with and without -fwrapv. Apologies -- I didn't do enough homework on this one. Yes, I can

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Ned Deily
Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org: -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13061 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org added the comment: It's more a straight duplicate of #12973, but the underlying cause (signed integer overflow) is the same. For people who are finding this via a search engine: A lot of bugs have been fixed in #12973, but even if the test suite passes

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Mark Dickinson
Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13061 ___ ___

[issue13061] Decimal module yields incorrect results when Python compiled with llvm

2011-09-29 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: There is some confusion here, I think. As best as I can tell, the original problem reported in the Stackoverflow question and to MacPorts involved using the clang compiler, not llvm-gcc and the Decimal problem reported here was only ever a problem

Python compiled modules are too big in size (even after strip)

2010-04-27 Thread King
Hi, I have just compiled python 2.6.5 from sources on ubuntu hardy 8.04. I have used a simple script to do everything in one go: ./configure --enable-shared make make install Python is compiled and installed successfully. However the modules(_socket.so, _random.so etc) are two big in terms of

Re: Python compiled modules are too big in size (even after strip)

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Clements
On 27 Apr, 10:43, King animator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have just compiled python 2.6.5 from sources on ubuntu hardy 8.04. I have used a simple script to do everything in one go: ./configure --enable-shared make make install Python is compiled and installed successfully. However the

Re: Python compiled modules are too big in size (even after strip)

2010-04-27 Thread King
Hi Jon, I do have a limited skill sets in c/c++ and also new on linux. I think I am missing some flags or anything when I am compiling python from sources. Still hoping that some one point me out the missing link. Cheers Prashant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python compiled modules are too big in size (even after strip)

2010-04-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:43:19 -0700, King a écrit : Python is compiled and installed successfully. However the modules(_socket.so, _random.so etc) are two big in terms of file size. They are around 4.5-5.0 mb each. I have used strip strip-all *.so, but still size is around 1.5 mb each. This

Re: Serializing Python compiled code.

2007-12-10 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a C++ application having a Python interpreter embedded, is it possible to compile a small Python snippet into object code and serialize the compiled object code to, for example, a database? I am exploring the possibility of writing a data driven application, where

Serializing Python compiled code.

2007-12-09 Thread renjipanicker
Hi everyone, In a C++ application having a Python interpreter embedded, is it possible to compile a small Python snippet into object code and serialize the compiled object code to, for example, a database? I am exploring the possibility of writing a data driven application, where small-sized

Re: Serializing Python compiled code.

2007-12-09 Thread Steve Howell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a C++ application having a Python interpreter embedded, is it possible to compile a small Python snippet into object code and serialize the compiled object code to, for example, a database? I am exploring the possibility of writing a data driven

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-07 Thread Duncan Booth
Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, people have compiled Python with gcc on windows. I believe it is slightly slower than the standard release, but I would guess that may depend on the exact versions of gcc/msc you choose to compare, and the exact compiler options you choose (or I

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-07 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
On 7 Feb 2007 09:44:32 GMT, Duncan Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, people have compiled Python with gcc on windows. I believe it is slightly slower than the standard release, but I would guess that may depend on the exact versions of gcc/msc you

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:17:48 +0100, hg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan Booth wrote: Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm only curious. Why is Python and most extension (also wxPython) not built using an open source compiler like gcc or g++ on Windows? I'm always

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Duncan Booth
cygwin. But I still don't understand what difference it makes to anyone between: an application (could be open or closed source) running on an open source language (Python) compiled with a closed source compiler on a closed source OS. versus an application (could be open or closed source) running

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-06 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
or closed source) running on an open source language (Python) compiled with a closed source compiler on a closed source OS. versus an application (could be open or closed source) running on an open source language (Python) compiled with an open source compiler on a closed source OS. For me it's more

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-05 Thread Duncan Booth
Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm only curious. Why is Python and most extension (also wxPython) not built using an open source compiler like gcc or g++ on Windows? I'm always wondering, why Microsoft is still supported in that way, using VC++ 7.1, if I'm not

Re: Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-05 Thread hg
Duncan Booth wrote: Franz Steinhaeusler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm only curious. Why is Python and most extension (also wxPython) not built using an open source compiler like gcc or g++ on Windows? I'm always wondering, why Microsoft is still supported in that way, using VC++

Python compiled on Windows

2007-02-04 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
Hello, I'm only curious. Why is Python and most extension (also wxPython) not built using an open source compiler like gcc or g++ on Windows? I'm always wondering, why Microsoft is still supported in that way, using VC++ 7.1, if I'm not wrong. Ok, maybe the compiled assembler code could be

relocate python compiled file

2006-03-03 Thread anushya beauty
Hi, When i run the python file, the python compiled file is created. Is it possible to relocate the python compiled file to some other directory?. Is it possible to frequent update the relocated pyc file while running the py file?thanks and regards, abbi Yahoo! Mail Bring photos

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-10 Thread Tim Roberts
billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted nature. I doubt it. C#, VB.NET, VBscript, Javascript and Perl have not

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I doubt it. C#, VB.NET, VBscript, Javascript and Perl have not suffered from being interpreted. Are you kidding? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-10 Thread Robert Kern
Terry Reedy wrote: Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Reedy wrote: Nor has 386 'machine language' suffered from being interpreted, at a deeper level, by microcode. I think both you and Paul may be missing Tim's point. I don't think he's talking about suffering in

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-08 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:29:46 -, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-09-06, Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also believe it's better to convince the end user to install Python before installing the application[1], rather than to try to sneak in an interpreter with py2exe

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-08 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:40:28 -0500, Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 September 2005 11:32 am, Jorgen Grahn wrote: I hope people are less hesitant to install interpreted applications today than they were ten years ago. I also believe it's better to convince the end user to

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-08, Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:29:46 -, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-09-06, Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also believe it's better to convince the end user to install Python before installing the application[1],

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-07 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 11:32 am, Jorgen Grahn wrote: I hope people are less hesitant to install interpreted applications today than they were ten years ago. I also believe it's better to convince the end user to install Python before installing the application[1], rather than to try to

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Grant Edwards wrote: distributing DLLs have been a solved problem for at least 15-20 years... There are days when some poeple might disagree with that. ;) distributing them has never been a problem. installing them in a shared location has always been a problem. (the solution to the

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread billiejoex
Clear. Thank you all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: distributing DLLs have been a solved problem for at least 15-20 years... There are days when some poeple might disagree with that. ;) distributing them has never been a problem. installing them in a shared

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:48:19 +0200, billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are noob questions and there are uneducated questions, yours are of the latter ( actually yours are STATEMENTS not questions ), and just trolling for what it is worth, if you would take the time to read what Python is

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-06, Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also believe it's better to convince the end user to install Python before installing the application[1], rather than to try to sneak in an interpreter with py2exe or something -- an interpreter which the end user cannot update, manage or

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-06 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 03:06:52 -, rumours say that Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: There are very, very few pure exe single-file executable windows apps. Putty is the only one I've run across in a _long_ while. Then you should also run across Media Player Classic (download

Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread billiejoex
Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted nature. Another important problem is that no interpreter is installed on Windows machine by default and this

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Devan L
billiejoex wrote: Hi all. I'm sorry for a noob question like this but I'll try to ask it anyway. One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted nature. What? The instant gratification of immediate results is not discouraging. Another

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Kartic
One of the greatest problem that may discourage a new user to choose Python language is it's interpreted nature. Strange.. this is one reason I love Python :-) Another important problem is that no interpreter is installed on Windows machine by default and this makes harder to distribute

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Do Re Mi chel La Si Do
Hi ! One of the greatest reason which encouraged me to choose Python is its interpreted nature (more exactly its nature of dynamic language). The utilities of distribution, or packaging, are enough numerous to solve this kind of problem. The existence of Py2exe (inter alia), could

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread fuzzylollipop
there are noob questions and there are uneducated questions, yours are of the latter ( actually yours are STATEMENTS not questions ), and just trolling for what it is worth, if you would take the time to read what Python is and why it is you would not be asking these questions. --

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread billiejoex
I'm sorry. Maybe you misunderstanded. I know the great advanteges deriving by using interpretation too, I appreciate it very much (I'm newbie in Python and the interpeter really helps me out in many situations), but a 'pure' interpretated language needs obligatorily an interpreter and (sorry

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread billiejoex
there are noob questions and there are uneducated questions, yours are of the latter ( actually yours are STATEMENTS not questions ), and just trolling for what it is worth, if you would take the time to read what Python is and why it is you would not be asking these questions. I'm really

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
billiejoex wrote: I'm sorry. Maybe you misunderstanded. I know the great advanteges deriving by using interpretation too, I appreciate it very much (I'm newbie in Python and the interpeter really helps me out in many situations), but a 'pure' interpretated language needs obligatorily an

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
billiejoex wrote: I know the great advanteges deriving by using interpretation too, I appreciate it very much (I'm newbie in Python and the interpeter really helps me out in many situations), but a 'pure' interpretated language needs obligatorily an interpreter and (sorry for repeating)

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone
billiejoex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interpretation and compilation at the same time, should be a great advantage. Python is compiled and needs a runtime environment. just like java does and like C needs the C standard library installed. I can see no differences except one is compiled to

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Gregory Piñero
Hmm, this may be offtopic, but does anyone know how pyinstaller actually works? Does it just unpack everything into a temporary directory at runtime? How can it work in Windows and Linux? Their website was sparse... Well I'm trying it now. Let me know if anyone has these answers in the meantime.

Re: Python compiled?

2005-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-09-05, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: distributing DLLs have been a solved problem for at least 15-20 years... There are days when some poeple might disagree with that. ;) -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! LOOK!!! I'm WALKING