Lauri Alanko added the comment:
How do you measure importance? Z/OS is not important to many
people in the world, but to those to whom it is important, it is
_very_ important, in a very tangible way. It was certainly
important enough for someone to port Python to it
Lauri Alanko added the comment:
The character set of EBCDIC is a superset of the character set of
ASCII. In fact CP1047, the variant used on z/OS, has the same
character set as Latin-1. Only the encoding is completely
different.
As a non-ASCII platform, z/OS is certainly challenging for people
Lauri Alanko added the comment:
Further comments on the port can be at:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-October/074991.html
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Lauri Alanko added the comment:
The port is certainly not yet "complete" in any sense. I have only fixed
the most obvious places where explicit conversion between ASCII/Unicode
values and platform-specific characters is required. There are a number
of remaining issues, some of which
New submission from Lauri Alanko:
In Modules/_ctypes/stgdict.c:567 there is a suspicious line:
stgdict->length = len; /* ADD ffi_ofs? */
That is, the length field of the stgdict is set to the number of fields in the
immediate Structure class, and the number of fields in the par
