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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by joshuamorton on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:16PM (#13727971)
Except that the original statement isn't really that you can't write a python2 interpreter in python3. In fact, I'm quite sure that those exist somewhere on github, but that there wasn't some kind of transparent interop between py2 and py3.

That is, why can't the cPython3 implementation of the python3 language also execute python2 code? To which I think the simplest response is "why can't the gcc implementation of the C++ language spec link arm-compiled C++ and x86-compiled C++?"

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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by TuringTest on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:35AM (#13753587)
> Except that the original statement isn't really that you can't write a python2 interpreter in python3.

That's why Z thinks of this as a joke, not a straight-face assertion.

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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by joshuamorton on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:43PM (#13755650)
I don't know what this statement is supposed to mean, could you rephrase or elaborate?
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