Jürgen A. Erhard, 05.08.2012 14:28: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:46:59AM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Jürgen A. Erhard, 05.08.2012 01:25: >>> None of the other implementations require Python for actually >>> compiling or running Python source. >> >> Nuitka was on the list as well. > > True, which I realized only after my missive. But doesn't change > much, only that the list is wrong.
Agreed. > My definition, to also answer your following post, is "does not rely > on any executable part of the CPython source (which includes .c files > and executable code in header files if any, but of course can exclude > the stdlib)". Not sure that's precise enough, but... if it can't > run/work on a system that has no shred of CPython installed, it's not > an alternative *implementation*. I can live with that definition. Cython is (by design) not an independent reimplementation of Python. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list