[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue May 20 02:23:29 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>> If you can run a pure Python module
>> that does not depend on any C extension, then that platform has the
>> support needed to run Python.
>
> This is certainly a point of view.  One that many end-users wouldn't
> understand :-).

Perhaps, but it's clear-cut. Is OS X not properly supported because it
can't run the _winreg module? I just don't like labeling a platform as
unsupported just because ctypes doesn't compile on it.

-Brett


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