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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
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On 3/4/25 03:56, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 04/03/2025 08:32, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 17:25:27 +0000
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:
...
>>> James Kuyper has been posting here for decades, and has helped
>>
>> Oh well, in that case I bow down in front of his magnificence, he must not
>> be contradicted!
> 
> James would be the first to say that he should be contradicted 
> when he is mistaken.

I would have been, but I don't see Muttley's messages except when
someone responds to them.

...
> And that's the point. The OP needs a local expert - i.e. someone 
> who has specific experience of building Python with the OP's 
> specific compiler.
> 
> K&R go on (on p25): "If the source program appears in several 
> files, you may have to say more to compile and load it than if it 
> all appears in one, but that is an operating system matter, not a 
> language attribute."

Agreed - that's precisely the point.