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

[Michael Foord]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Ulrich> Having the ctypes extension in the stdlib doesn't imply it runs
>     Ulrich> on any platform where python runs. 
>
> Maybe the presence of a functioning ctypes (can|might|should|will) become
> the operational definition of "Python runs on platform X".
>   

And what about platforms like the JVM or CLR?

Incidentally there were a small but vocal group of Pythonistas who were 
(are?) certain that IronPython is not Python because it doesn't have 
[all of...] the C extensions.

Michael Foord

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