On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:52 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:58:16PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 06:45 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:54:54AM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> >
> > Hmmmmm....OK Paul. Another bit of knowledge to be tucked away for
> > when I don't know. Seriously, thanks for replying and I am sure
> > many more ambitious people appreciate that bit of knowledge.
> > Afraid that doesn't help me much though. Don't know how I can tell
> > the differences for the library calls. Don't really want to learn
> > Python at this stage of the game.
>
> I assumed knowledge you probably don't have. Python has been changing
> its feature set for the last little while (it's a young language). In
> practical terms, that could mean something like this: Say before you
> could write p++ to increment p, but now you have to write p = p + p.
> (Contrived example.) If your running code contains stuff like this,
> but you're trying to run it under an older python interpreter, it
> might choke. That's kinda what I meant by "library calls". I didn't
> express it well at all, though.
>
> As for byte-coded versus human-readable python, .pyc files are an
> intermediate form of code (not human-readable) that python interprets
> more quickly than regular human-readable .py files. You can remove a
> .pyc file and force python to recompile the .py file into a new .pyc
> file (with a special command), but that's not really what you want to
> do. The point is that, a .pyc file is normally not needed for a
> python program to run; it just speeds things up. You can often
> eliminate the .pyc file and just run the .py file. This works fine if
> your application consists of a single .pyc file, but may not if your
> application is a mix of .pyc and .py files.
>
> Anyway, I've geeked all over you now, so I'll just shut up. ;-}
>
> Paul
No apologies for "geeking" me. I find it interesting. Wish I had the
knowledge that most of those on this list have.
Bob S.
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