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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by joshuamorton on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:00PM (#16981902)
>"Python only ran on Unix and never supported Windows at all",

I think the misunderstanding stems from no one having said this :P

One might rephrase "english-unix-ascii" from my other comment to "english-command line tooling-fixed width system encoding".

It was really a problem for web and fullish unicode.

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Re:Python startup time: milliseconds matter by eesmith on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:12PM (#16981966)
Your wording wouldn't have cause me to raise an eyebrow.

But ubernostrum seemed to be making a stronger statement that Python favored "one particular group of programmers: people working on Unix ... to write Unix utilities, administrative tools, daemons, etc."

While I know that I used Python 2.x with the win32 extensions to write daemons for MS Windows, and to write an ActiveX extension for Excel.

That's why I wanted clarification on the basis for ubernostrum's statement, with pointers to why I thought Python was well-supported on other OSes.

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