walterbyrd wrote: > On May 19, 7:23 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The reason you can do this with Python is precisely because the >> developers have ironed out the wrinkles between platforms by putting the >> requisite conditionals in the C source. > > But that is my point. With Python, the language itself takes care of > the platform differences, so the same Python code will run on > different platforms. I realize that, at a lower level, everything is > done is C. But, from the developers point of view: developing code in > C requires more attention to platform specifics, than does developing > code in Python. > That I can agree with, but it isn't the same as "not portable". It would have been better to say "more difficult to port".
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