[pypy-dev] Re: Confused about RPython

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jul 29 12:23:51 CEST 2005


Niklaus Haldimann <nhaldimann at gmx.ch> writes:

> Hi everyone
>
> I am currently seriously confused about the notion of RPython, and I
> hope someone can show me the light here. ;)
>
> I guess my basic problem is: How do I find out if some code is
> RPython?

Hrm.  If it gets annotated without SomeObjects, I guess it's RPython.

> Armin just had a checkin where he replaced str.isalpha() with
> something else because string methods are not RPython. But I can
> geninterp and even C compile string methods just fine.

Are they C compiled to code using the Python C API?

Cheers,
mwh

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