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A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)

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122 points phsilva | 5 comments | 17 Feb 25 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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thunkingdeep ◴[20 Feb 25 03:19 UTC] No.43110710[source]▶
This does NOT mean Python will get Tail Call Optimization, as Guido cannot be shown The Light, and has decided.
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ehsankia ◴[20 Feb 25 03:39 UTC] No.43110832[source]▶
Guido is no longer BDFL though, it's the steering committee that decides.
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riffraff ◴[20 Feb 25 06:15 UTC] No.43111674[source]▶
the steering committee seems way less conservative than Guido, right?

Looking at python from the outside a lot of changes since GvR stepped down seem like stuff he'd not have been fond of.

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1. kqr ◴[20 Feb 25 07:06 UTC] No.43111923[source]▶
I think this is a change longer in the making than that. Back when I started working with Python in the mid--late 2000s, the Zen was holy and it seemed very unlikely to ever see multiple ways to do "one thing".

The Python community has since matured and realised that what they previously thought of as "one thing" were actually multiple different things with small nuances and it makes sense to support several of them for different use cases.

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2. riffraff ◴[20 Feb 25 07:30 UTC] No.43112055[source]▶
You may be right. I checked and found the introduction of the ternary expression, which I found to be wildly "unpythonic", was back in 2006. Time flies.
3. guappa ◴[20 Feb 25 07:31 UTC] No.43112061[source]▶
One way to do the things. That's why there's 5000 ways to install a module.
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4. raverbashing ◴[20 Feb 25 10:00 UTC] No.43112948[source]▶
And 4900 "wrong ways" that will hurt you one way or another
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5. peterfirefly ◴[20 Feb 25 12:01 UTC] No.43113677{3}[source]▶
More like 5001.