Post by Simon ClubleyPost by Arne Vajhøjhttps://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.
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.
hi
$
Arne