Re: Emacs/Python connection; and the future of Python

Guido van Rossum (Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl)
Tue, 14 Jul 1992 10:25:27 +0200

Thanks to Terence Brannon for his Emacs/Python connection. I've tried
it a bit and it works, but I haven't got the imagination right now to
find a good use for it -- I'm sure others will. (To save you some
trouble while hunting down the required package "comint.el": the
pointer to it in the source is wrong: it is in the directory "as-is",
not in "packages".)

Regarding the future direction of Python: in my own use and that of
colleagues I find that Python is used more as a replacement for C
programs than as an improved perl or sh; interactive use tends to be
fairly simple (e.g. testing code I've just written, or as a
calculator). I couldn't do without interactive Python (nor with the
command line editing) but I wouldn't use it to replace the shell
either. What do other people use interactive Python for?

I'm leaving today for a vacation until July 30, so don't expect the
quick answers from me to all sorts of questions you're used to...

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
"Well ass a matter of fact it's *very* runny, sir"