[Python-Dev] which C language standard CPython must conform to (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 8 21:55:20 CET 2012

Some quick searching shows that there is at least hope Microsoft is on board with C++11x (not so surprising, their crown jewels are written in C++). We should at some point demand a C++ compiler for CPython and pick of subset of C++ features to allow use of but that is likely reserved for the Python 4 timeframe (a topic for another thread and time entirely, it isn't feasible for today's codebase).

See my earlier post on building Python as a Windows 8 Metro App. As one strategy, I tried compiling Python as C++ code (as it wasn't clear whether C is fully supported; this is now resolved). It is actually feasible to change Python so that it compiles with a C++ compiler and still continues to compile as C also, with just a few ifdefs.

This is, of course, off-topic wrt. the original question: even C++11 compilers often don't support non-ASCII identifiers.

Regards, Martin

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