Re: Python un-plugging the Interpreter

2007-04-26 Thread cfbolz
On 25 Apr., 16:09, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Python as a language is in good shape. But the CPython > > implementation is holding back progress. What we need are better > > and faster implementations of the language we've got. > > Hear, hear! > > > PyPy, ShedSkin, and

Re: Abelson and Python

2006-11-24 Thread cfbolz
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > markscottwright wrote: > > > If it were that easy, the PyPy guys would be done by now. > > if the PyPy guys had focused on writing a Python interpreter in Python, > they'd been done by now. > > The "Python interpreter in Python" part of PyPy _is_ done. Since quite a wh

Re: PATCH: Speed up direct string concatenation by 20+%!

2006-09-29 Thread cfbolz
Robin Becker wrote: > Larry Hastings wrote: > __ >> THE PATCH >> >> The core concept: adding two strings together no longer returns a pure >> "string" object. Instead, it returns a "string concatenation" object >> which holds references to the two strings but does not actually >> concatenate >

Re: pypy-0.9.0: stackless, new extension compiler

2006-06-26 Thread cfbolz
Hi all! Michael Hudson wrote: > The PyPy development team has been busy working and we've now packaged > our latest improvements, completed work and new experiments as > version 0.9.0, our fourth public release. Unfortunately the download links for the release tarballs did not work until very rec

Re: Python2CPP ?

2006-04-12 Thread cfbolz
Hi! Szabolcs Berecz schrieb: > On 4/12/06, Michael Yanowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) Efficiency. It is alot quicker to code something in Python. If I can > >write it in Python and auto-convert it to C++. I would save time coding. > > I don't think you will get a more efficient code. T

Re: implementation of "complex" type

2006-03-09 Thread cfbolz
Hi! Russ wrote: > I tried the following: > > >>> x = complex(4) > >>> y = x > >>> y *= 2 > >>> print x, y > (4+0j) (8+0j) > > But when I tried the same thing with my own class in place of > "complex" above, I found that both x and y were doubled. I'd like to > make my class behave like the "comple

Re: Merging sorted lists/iterators/generators into one stream of values...

2005-10-08 Thread cfbolz
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > > try it (and read the Timbot's article included in Python's sources, and the > > sources themselves)... > > Just a reading advise. The translated PyPy source > pypy/objectspace/listsort.py might be more accessible than the > corresponding C code. ind

Re: HELP ! Anybody knows where the stackless python website is ?

2005-04-12 Thread cfbolz
Hi! Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > I've been trying desperately to access http://www.stackless.com but > it's been down, for about a week now ! The stackless webpage is working again. Regards, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-25 Thread cfbolz
Simon Brunning wrote: > I don't know about kid's tutorials, but I can recommend that you try > the turtle module. It's great for kids. It gives really good immediate > feedback, You can start out using it interactively: FWIW there is a German Book called called "Python für Kids" by Gregor Lingl