Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 06:13 PM 8/9/2007, Ben Finney wrote: > >it's entirely left to the language implementation which > >optimisation trade-offs to make, and the language user (that's you > >and I) should *not* expect any particular behaviour to hold between > >different implementations. > > I'm not clear on the meaning of "implementations" here. Would 2.5 > for Windows, Mac, Linux all be different implementations? Would Iron > Python be another? ActivePython?
For the purpose of the above statement, you should consider even the same Python on two different machines to be "different implementations". As a programmer writing Python code, you should not expect any "implementation-dependent" behaviour to operate in any particular way. -- \ "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more | `\ to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a | _o__) sober one." —George Bernard Shaw | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
