Python is just as good as C++ for real apps

[Courageous]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:05:10 GMT, cgraus at southcom.com.au (Christian Graus) wrote:

>On 22 Jan 2002 15:24:37 -0500, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com>
>wrote:
>
>>"Kevin Altis" <altis at semi-retired.com> writes:
>>
>>> Python is just as good as C++ for real apps
>>

>I write graphics code a lot in my spare time, and even if it's
>possible to write filters that access the bits of a bitmap directly in
>Python, you can't tell me it is as fast as C++ to do such things.

No, but you'd be surprised how fast it can be using Numeric as a basis
of surfaces.

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