Is it possible to build Python without floats (or other unwanted capabilities)

Tue Jul 24 20:31:16 EDT 2001

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:35:49 GMT, bokr at accessone.com (Bengt Richter)
> wrote:
> 
> >No, I meant really no floating point, including software. What if you had
> >zero use for floating point, and wanted the benefit of a small footprint?

Pippy (Python for the Palm) has no floating point.  The input 3.14 is
a syntax error.  They had to considerably hack the source to get this
-- I'm still waiting to get the patches back.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)