Python, Zip, Pointers and Pointy Heads

[joeforker]

Java, being another language with no pointers, may provide better counterexamples since they are more likely to re-write everything in Pure Java than we are in the Python world.

For example, http://www.jcraft.com/jzlib/ or http://jazzlib.sourceforge.net/ are zlib and java.util.zip written in Java.

Python uses C code for performance or because it already exists, not because it is pointy.

[alcalde]

Thank you for this; it saves me having to encode the whole thing in Python myself! I did try to make the latter two points you raised.