D.M. Procida wrote:
Mark Harriss wrote:

D.M. Procida wrote:
Most Linux distributions include or provide a packaged Python - again, a
package *of the same thing*. Obviously, they are packaged differently
for each distribution.
So for you, "Version" is defined to mean a particular release number
but not a particular operating system distribution free or commercial?.

It could be either, but in the case of Python, there aren't any versions
in that second sense.

There is nothing in any of these that makes them in themselves faster or
slower than any other. They are all installations of the same thing.

What about the Psyco project? [...] I'd consider it a different
"Version" of Python.

It's an extension module for Python. It requires Python. It will select
bits of your Python code while the Python interpreter is running, and
evaluate them to see if it can usefully compile them on a just-in-time
basis.

It is not "A package of the same thing" this is my point, it's
written in C# programming language. Standard plain vanilla Python is
written in C. PyPy is Python written in RPython, Jython is Python
written in Java. Psyco and PyPy use a dialect of Python called RPython
for a start.

So we have Pythons implemented in four different languages and using
at least two different sytaxes. Do you mean to tell me these are all
"Again a package of the same thing"?.



Also, it's a free product.

I didn't say it was a commercial product.


This isn't a forum for discussing Python, so I'll drop it now. But your
claim "The commercial version of python is a lot faster than the free
version" is not merely not true, it doesn't even refer to things that
exist.
How does "Some paid-for flavours of Python run faster" sound?.

It would be OK if set to a nice tune, but all the same, I have yet to
encounter any of these paid-for flavours of Python (and if there are
any, I doubt they'd be a lot faster).


In 2004 I personally used a paid for commercially supported Python
package that ran 4x faster than the newest freely available version at
that time. Although I'm sure you can come up with some nitpicking
redefinition to disagree with me though.


Sorry, I didn't keep my promise to shut up.

I too, am sorry you didn't shut up.

Daniele