[Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt (original) (raw)

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 23:47:56 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis:

> Visual Basic never forced > use of a particular compiler or runtime library for extensions so why > should Python?

Do you really not know? Because of API that happens to be defined the way it is.

It was rhetorical: Why should Python be inferior to VB?

I suppose the answer (hmm, am I allowed to anser my own rhtorical questions?) is that it was originally developed on other operating systems and the Windows port has never been as much of a focus for most contributors.

Neil

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