Comment by joshuamorton
8 years ago
>"Python only ran on Unix and never supported Windows at all",
I think the misunderstanding stems from no one having said this :P
One might rephrase "english-unix-ascii" from my other comment to "english-command line tooling-fixed width system encoding".
It was really a problem for web and fullish unicode.
Your wording wouldn't have cause me to raise an eyebrow.
But ubernostrum seemed to be making a stronger statement that Python favored "one particular group of programmers: people working on Unix ... to write Unix utilities, administrative tools, daemons, etc."
While I know that I used Python 2.x with the win32 extensions to write daemons for MS Windows, and to write an ActiveX extension for Excel.
That's why I wanted clarification on the basis for ubernostrum's statement, with pointers to why I thought Python was well-supported on other OSes.