[Edu-sig] python versus __python__

[Arthur]

Arthur wrote:

> Arthur wrote:
>
>> Us non C programmers look forward to PyPy for the view of the 
>> netherworld it will
>> give us.  In truth I expect PyPy to bring a new burst of creative 
>> energy to the
>> Python world, just by opening up the possibility of lower level 
>> exploration to a wider group of folks.
>>  
>>
> So I go the next step, download PyPy, and get at app_complex.py  - 
> which is the pypy implementation of the Python complex function, 
> implemented in Python - all as advertised.
>
> Which is nicely transparent to someone who can read Python well-enough 
> - as advertised.

And which, BTW, serves as a nice reference for techniques of operator 
overloading - which I have always found get a bit tricky once one gets 
beyond the simplest form of it.  I had used what I find in Numeric's 
UserArray as my previous reference - nice to have something else to 
study a bit.

Art