Luis M. González wrote: > Thanks! > I think I completely understand the whole thing now :-)
If only we could say the same :-) > Anyway, I guess it's just a matter of time untill we can use this > translation tool to translate other programs, provided they are written > in restricted python, right? Yes. This is even possible right now, with one caveat: Basically it is not so hard to write a new program in RPython. RPython is still kind of nice, it is testable on CPython so this is not such a bad task. There are problems with that, though: You don't have most of the stdlib in RPython (mostly only a few functions from os, sys, math work). The other problem is that it is quite hard to convert /existing/ programs to RPython because they will most probably not adhere to the staticness conditions. And it is surprisingly hard to convert an existing program to RPython. > So we will have two choices: > 1) running normal python programs on Pypy. > 2) translating rpython programs to C and compiling them to stand-alone > executables. > > Is that correct? Indeed. Another possibility is to write a PyPy extension module in RPython, have that translated to C and then use this in your pure python code. Actually, one of our current rather wild ideas (which might not be followed) is to be able to even use RPython to write extension modules for CPython. Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
