On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:44:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> For a programming language with a lot of corporate use, Python already >>> seems like it changes at the drop of a hat. >> >> Hang on, you're conflating the language and its implementation. > > No I'm not. CPython is the reference implementation of Python the > language. There is no ISO standard for Python (nor is there likely to be > any time soon) so Python the language is more-or-less what CPython the > implementation does.
True, though not entirely; there are plenty of CPython behaviours that aren't strictly specified, and other Pythons don't have to comply. >> Fortunately it's >> pretty easy to whip up your own Python straight from source and 'make >> altinstall' to keep things happily parallel. You want faster releases? >> You got 'em. > > But not faster than ≈18 months between minor releases. Not unless you > fork and do it yourself. Why wait for a release? Just build with whatever patches you want to build with. That's what I do with a lot of oddments of software. Well, actually, what I tend to do is simply build HEAD (or whatever hg calls it) as of when I want it, and update whenever I feel like it. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
