Seeking Minimal Python Project Name (was: [pypy-dev] Re: [ann] Minimal Python project)

[Andrew Henshaw]

Christian Tismer wrote:

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> 
> Sure it does, at least in the context of a "Minimal Python".
> After all, this project turns out to be not *that* minimal
> in the first place. It is of course aimed at the possibility
> to downsize Python by removing whole classes of constructs.
> But it also tries to be a full implementation of the existing
> python, or even more than that.
> 
> Our final goal is to make Python self-contained, that means that
> Python should implement itself, and it should no longer be
> dependant of some C libraries, nor should its majority be
> coded in C. The C part of this new Python will be put down
> to the absolute minimum possible by a simple and portable
> micro interpreter core. Everything else will be built on top of
> this.
> While this minimal interpretrer in C will be able to run on any
> platform, this is only a matter of bootstrap and basic portability.
> For every relevant platform, a real code generator will be developed,
> which will hopefully create code that is comparably fast like the
> C implementation. Furthermore, due to the dynamic techniques in
> Psyco, we do hope to get it reasonably faster.
> 
> At least concerning our goals, this is not so much of a "Minimum" :-)
> 
> ciao - chris

Tired of this yet?

How about "self.python"?

Regards,
 
Andy