[Python-Dev] PEP about sys.implementation and implementation specific user site directory

[Nick Coghlan]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Doing some bike-shedding: I'd like to not use "cpython" as the name of
> the python.org implementation. This term, I believe, was coined around
> JPython, somehow making the implementation language the primary means
> of distinction. However, there may be alternative implementations
> written in C (e.g. unladen swallow), or otherwise be "C based" (e.g.
> pypy).

However, CPython has been used for years to distinguish
CPython-the-reference-implementation from
Python-the-language-definition. Starting to call it something else now
would just confuse people for no good reason.

As Greg said, it may be better to think of it as standing for "Classic
Python" rather than merely "A Python interpreter written in C".

Cheers,
Nick.

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