[Python-Dev] Another version of Python (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Feb 27 02:43:37 CET 2010

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:53:36 am Michael Foord wrote:

On 26/02/2010 17:26, skip at pobox.com wrote: > >> Â Â http://www.staringispolite.com/likepython/ > > Simon> I'm reminded of LOLPython:<http://bit.ly/271rt>. > > You know, I'm thinking while both are obviously tongue-in-cheek we > should probably include them on the /dev/implementations page of > python.org, probably in a separate section at the end of the page.

They're certainly fun - but they seem to be fly-by-night projects (i.e. unlikely to be maintained in the long run). The risk is that we end up with even more outdated links / material on the website. Anyway, if the consensus is that it would be good to link to them then I will update the page (which could already do with some updating by the looks of it).

For what it's worth, I have compiled a list of between 14 and 27 implementations of Python, depending on how conservative you are at defining "implementation".

I then went to the wiki and discovered my list was nowhere near complete. Obviously this information is extensive and rapidly changing, so I think it would be better to have the current implementation page be fairly minimal but link to the wiki for more details:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/implementation http://www.python.org/dev/implementations/

-- Steven D'Aprano

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