MS Compiler to build Python 2.3 extension

Hello, I have no Microsoft compilers on my hard disk. I recenly built a C API Python extension for Python 2.3 on OS X, and now I need to build it for Windows. When I start Python 2.3 on Windows, it says it was built with "MS C v.1200". I'm not sure how that maps to current Microsoft compiler prod

Re: what's wrong with "lambda x : print x/60,x%60"

> I don't understand why the critics of lambda don't understand that > having to use so many temp variables, for either numbers or functions, > can work against both concision and clarity. I agree with this completely. My company has a rather large application written in Python (http://www.goombah

pyprocessing and exceptions

Hi, We're still using Python 2.5 so this question is about the pyprocessing module rather than the multiprocessing module, but I'm guessing the answer is the same. I tend to use the Pool() object to create slave processes. If something goes wrong in the slave, an exception is raised there, which

Re: a huge shared read-only data in parallel accesses -- How? multithreading? multiprocessing?

One thing I'm not clear on regarding Klauss' patch. He says it's applicable where the data is primarily non-numeric. In trying to understand why that would be the case, I'm thinking that the increased per-object memory overhead for reference-counting would outweigh the space gains from the shared m