[Info-vax] Python x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/9/2024 8:49 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-04-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> https://vmssoftware.com/products/python/
>>
>> X86VMS-PYTHON-A0310-0-REL008-1.ZIP
> 
> Good news.
> 
> I wonder how long it will be before someone asks for Python 2.7 on VMS ? :-)

It exist on VMS Alpha and VMS Itanium.

Will probably never exist on VMS x86-64.

In CPython flavor that is.

Jython 2.7 has run fine on VMS x86-64 since Java became
available.

$ python
Python 3.10.0 (default, Feb 21 2024, 05:22:10) [C] on OpenVMS
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> print "hi"
   File "<stdin>", line 1
     print "hi"
     ^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean 
print(...)?
 >>>

$ jython
org.python WARNING console: Failed to install 
'org.python.util.InteractiveConsole': does not implement interface 
org.python.core.Con
sole.
Jython 2.7.3 (tags/v2.7.3:5f29801fe, Sep 10 2022, 18:52:49)
[OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (VMS Software, Inc)] on java1.8.0_372
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> print "hi"
hi
 >>>  Exit
$

Arne