[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 29 00:38:44 CEST 2015

On 29 May 2015 00:52, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

+1. The new embeddable Python distribution for Windows is a great step forward for this. It's not single-file, but it's easy to produce a single-directory self-contained application with it. I don't know if there's anything equivalent for Linux/OSX - maybe it's something we should look at for them as well (although the whole "static binaries" concept seems to be fairly frowned on in the Unix world, from what I've seen).

Correct - in the absence of the capacity to rebuild and redeploy the world at the click of a button, widespread deployment of static binaries poses an appallingly high security risk. It isn't an accident that Linux container orchestration is co-evolving with Linux container formats.

Those efforts are mostly focused on network services & GUI applications, though. For portable console applications, Go is still one of the nicest options currently available, as the relatively limited ability to interoperate with the system provided C/C++ libraries makes it much harder to create dependencies between the app and the platform. It's similar to Java in that respect, but without the dependency on a large language runtime like the JVM.

In that vein, it might be interesting to see what could be done with MicroPython in terms of providing a lightweight portable Python runtime without CPython's extensive integration with the underlying OS.

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