kpa said:
Your mother was hampster and your father smelled of elderberries!
Yes, I'm a pythonist
Seriously speaking I don't see why python version 3.3 belongs in your list.
I'm a Harpo Marxist, glad to meet ya! Fetchez la vache!
Long, horrid story short, we use
graphics/blender here. We also build it onto a live DVD. As of
Blender 2.65, it's dependent on
python33.
Python33 has many insects and sharp edges. Off the top of my head, it doesn't like FreeBSD's
ctypes.h ... so had to fix that to start with. Then there's that niggly little issue of
"OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: " starting off in
/Python-3.3.0/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py, along with having to diff out an entirely new
/Python/importlib.h and ripping my hair out each time some alleged patch only made it worse. All because we wanted to add the newest Blender.
Like most penguin feces, the documentation is obtuse, the coders who maintain it even more so, and of course the mess in having to hand patch soup to nuts all because 3.3 insists upon having write permissions to places where it shouldn't. 3.2 and earlier wasn't as bad a mess, so please do forgive me, since I'm one of those upstate New York type 'muricans, I've been considering getting one of those pink automatic weapons and visiting the developers to express my pleasure with "you did WHAT?" Heh. All because 3.3 can't refresh pyc's and pyo's that haven't changed a bit? It's a read-only file system! How could it have changed?
Hopefully this current build with more bandaids on their mess will finally produce a working Blender. If not, then I'm going to plug it in and use it on this silly code of theirs!
Finally found evidence of the problem here:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/53ce30b62de2
But it's not in the BSD sources as yet.