Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-12 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 9, 11:34 pm, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure 2.6.1 is compiled with 8.0.  However, I think the Visual C++ 8.0 uses msvcrt90.dll. No, the two digits of the DLL match the version number of C++.  The confusion arises because

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-11 Thread Tim Roberts
Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote: In case anyone is interested: Gideon Smeding of the University of Utrecht has written a masters' thesis titled An executable operational semantics for Python. That's an interesting grammatical construct. I would have said either Executable

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-10 Thread greg
Mark Hammond wrote: What problems specifically? The only practical problems you should see will arise if you try and pass a FILE *, or allocate memory you then ask python to free (or vice-versa) - both should be avoidable though... It concerns a Ruby plugin for Sketchup that embeds a Python

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-10 Thread bearophileHUGS
Paul Rubin: Gideon Smeding of the University of Utrecht has written a masters' thesis titled An executable operational semantics for Python. A significant part of Computer Science is a waste of time and money. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-10 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: Paul Rubin: Gideon Smeding of the University of Utrecht has written a masters' thesis titled An executable operational semantics for Python. A significant part of Computer Science is a waste of time and money. The same can be said for any research. Can you

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-09 Thread Mark Hammond
On 9/02/2009 5:51 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: Is there anywhere I can download a set of Python binaries, of any version, that have been built with Visual C++ 8.0? IIRC, no. Python skipped that version of MSVC. I believe Python 2.5 builds easily with vc8 project files in svn though. I'm trying

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Roberts
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure 2.6.1 is compiled with 8.0. However, I think the Visual C++ 8.0 uses msvcrt90.dll. No, the two digits of the DLL match the version number of C++. The confusion arises because the product is called Visual Studio 2008, but it includes

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Rubin
In case anyone is interested: Gideon Smeding of the University of Utrecht has written a masters' thesis titled An executable operational semantics for Python. It is actually a formal semantics for a Python subset called minpy. Per the blurb, the semantics are described in literate Haskell that

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-08 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 8, 10:51 pm, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Is there anywhere I can download a set of Python binaries, of any version, that have been built with Visual C++ 8.0? I'm trying to hook Python up to Sketchup 7 on Windows, and I think I'm having problems because Sketchup is

Re: Python binaries with VC++ 8.0?

2009-02-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 8, 10:51 pm, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Is there anywhere I can download a set of Python binaries, of any version, that have been built with Visual C++ 8.0? I'm trying to hook Python up to