"Graham Guttocks"
Dan Sugalski
wrote: It's actually not all that tough
Oh? Guido seems to disagree with you.
No contradiction or disagreement. It is not all that tough to do something of limited benefit, such as pre-interpreting Python byte codes into a series of function calls in some compilable-to-machine-code language. It is *must* harder to do something much more useful, which is all Guido would be interested in. A a grad student, Armin Rigo conceived and implemented a clever idea which works with a large subset of Python. Now that he has graduated to the real world, I am sure all of us hope that he finds the means to continue. PyRex and Weave are other projects that help certain Python applications. Terry J. Reedy