AmigaPython 2.3.3 alpha and new website launched

[pythonman]

Tim Ocock has updated Irmen de Jong's Amiga port of the Python programming language to the latest version 2.3.3



Python is an interpreted scripting language similar to ARexx, only a lot more powerful, being object oriented amongst other things (although the power comes with a price, the engine is a lot bigger than ARexx)

Alpha release and new website can be found at:

http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/python/

[Batman]

At last some good news!

I've two questions: 1) Has Tim told python.org to change the links to AmigaPython? 2) Since Tim doesn't seems to have an A1, is he able to port it to AROS (the PyAROS project is no longer active, IMHO), in this way "unifying" Python in the two main amigoid platforms (AROS and OS3.9) and paving the way to an OS4 port?  :-)

[pythonman]

Answers:

1) Yes, but they, and I, are waiting for me to put out a more stable version before we changeover fully

2) We'll see. I can certainly hope someone else do it. As far as I'm concerned I've got a perfectly usable Amiga emulation so I don't see the need for AROS. As for OS4, apparently the alpha works on it fine, but obviously not natively yet.

[Batman]

As for OS4, apparently the alpha works on it fine, but obviously not natively yet.

Are you implying that some betatester is testing it on OS4?  :-?

[x303]

Are you implying that some betatester is testing it on OS4?

I think he means that the 68k version is running fine on OS4, but it's not compiled for it yet. I also think if you would compile it with GCC on OS4, it should work almost out of the box (I compiled it with the 68k version of GCC, works fine too).

[color=FF0000]x303[/color] :-D  :-D  :-D

[Batman]

Nice to hear! However, what about an add-on for the official python documentation like the MacPython reference? It would help us (and AmigaOS) greatly!