On 03/21/2016 06:43 AM, BartC wrote: > On 21/03/2016 12:08, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 9:15:32 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote: >>> >>> A tokeniser along those lines in Python, with most of the bits filled >>> in, is here: >>> >>> http://pastebin.com/dtM8WnFZ >>> >> >> Bart, we get it: you don't like the trade-offs that Python has made. > ... >> You don't like Python. Can we leave it at that? > > On the contrary, I do like it. It's just a shame it's made those > trade-offs as a bit more speed would have made it more useful to me.
Have you looked at compiled, python-inspired languages like Num (http://nim-lang.org/). If it's syntax you like and some other Python things like for the for loop works, maybe something like this would be useful to you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list