From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] http://mapage.noos.fr/~repo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v472) From: Jonathan Sergent To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200109281650.f8SGoOw23095@new-york.lcs.mit.edu> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:55:56 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f638e71c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Friday, September 28, 2001, at 09:50 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > The wiki claims that > > * There's a Python port at > [http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/plan9/python/]. > > Does this one not work, Boyd? I did it; it only kind of works. There are some bugs. Boyd can fix them if he wants to. Also, it uses APE, and so there are a set of things that it would be nice to extend it to do that you can't, such as using the graphics/drawing libraries (since those won't work as far as I can reason with the APE libraries, since there are functions with the same names that do different things in libc/libap). Plus it can't do dynamic loading of compiled C code from shared libraries for obvious reasons and so there is a rather large subset of python programs that won't work. --jss.