Pep 3105: the end of print?

[Edward K Ream]

> But that doesn't just happen.

True, but it didn't happen as you imply.  Leo's core defines a 
gui-and-platform-independent set of api's which then get instantiated in 
plugins.  Plugins can, and do, use platform-dependent features.  For 
example, the wxWidgets plugin uses the scintilla text widget, something that 
does not exist by default in Tk/Tkinter.

Leo just started to work with IronPython last night, so the details are 
fresh in my mind.  Amazingly, IronPython allows you to point sys.path 
(IronPython's sys.path, that is) at CPython's Python24\Lib and for the most 
part IronPython 'just works' with those libs.  So all of Leo's core, being 
free of any gui code, just worked.  That is, until it started to load the 
IronPython plugin :-)  At which point I started to have newbie problems with 
dbgclr, but that's another story...

Edward
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