[Swan-dev] python [was Re: generating x509 certificates]

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Wed Feb 4 21:00:33 EET 2015


| From: Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org>

| I am proponent of python based script.. 

sh isn't great for large things.  It is pretty universal.  We've been
bitten a few times by bashisms -- because bash is pervasive in our
world and only the outliers suffer.

python is fine but it has a few problems to dodge.
For example we should code to the language subset supported by common
versions (2.4 on, I imagine, and perhaps pypy variants).

One problem python and sh share is that too many errors are only
detected at runtime.  pypy is getting some type annotation features.
I hope that they address this problem.  If they can be ignored by old
pythons, I think that we should use them and test with pypy.


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