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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I agree with Dave L that your best bet is to search the Freeware CDs, particularly the earlier ones that were less Alpha/Itanium centric.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Since I was the head of the DECUS Library for a time, I know that Python for VAX VMS was offered at one point, but I also remember that when the maintainer tried
to upgrade the working Python to a later Python version on VAX VMS that they found that the VAX C environment had a few issues compiling the code and that it would take quite a bit of work to get the later Python version running. I don’t recall whether GNV
was part of the porting mechanism at that time, however.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you really want the latest version of Python on VAX VMS, your best bet would be to contact vmspython.org and offer to help with a back-port to VAX VMS. Or
upgrade to an Alpha or a free Alpha emulator to run the latest Python that vmspython.org offers. I would not expect back-port Python performance to be real spectacular on the VAX. The real question for you would be: What would be the added value of porting
the latest version of Python to VAX VMS? Is the added value worth the porting cost?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave L<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 03, 2017 3:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> EXT :Re: [Simh] OpenVMS 7.3 and Python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Tried the freeware discs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The freeware v5 has Python 1.5 on it, may do what you require<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev50/python/">http://www.decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev50/python/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">HTH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:01:41 -0000, Gary Lee Phillips <<a href="mailto:tivo.overo@gmail.com">tivo.overo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Does anyone know of a version of Python for OpenVMS 7.3 on VAX?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have seen the versions for Alpha and IA64, and remarks stating that the C runtime library on the 32 bit version of OpenVMS is "hostile" to Python. However, I have seen Python
(perhaps not the latest and greatest, but certainly Python) on 32 bit Linux machines. Could the 32 bit open source Python not be ported to VAX OpenVMS?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have not personally had much luck with GNV or other porting mechanisms, but I'm really not a C programmer either. I can work in several languages but not C.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thanks for any information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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