Mailman 3 October 2004 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyCar-1.2.3.0-pre1 released
by Dmitry Borisov Oct. 21, 2004

Oct. 21, 2004

Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that PyCar-1.2.3.0-pre1 is available for download( http://pymedia.org/pycar ) At this time only Windows binary, but I plan to release Linux ISO in 2 weeks with even more features https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=276836 What is it ? ------------------ PyCar is a car multimedia center written fully in Python( even video player ), using PyMedia package. It features the following: - Plays mp3, mp2, ogg, ac3, wma - Plays audio disks - Plays avi, VideoCD, SVCD and DVDs - Shows media information for all supported formats - Displays album pictures( cover art ) - Playlists - Interacts with LCD - local CDDB support for Audio disks ( take a copy from the http://freecddb.org ) - i18n compatible, russian language translation included - Adjustable cache size for skip free playback while on the road - Touch screen friendly - Skinnable Installation ----------- Just unzip pycar-xxxx.zip to any location you want and run configure.exe first to point to the right location where your media files are. Then run pycar.exe. See pics and more info at: http://pymedia.org/pycar Windows binary available: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=276836 Enjoy ! Dmitry/

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ANN: ActivePython 2.4b1 is available
by Trent Mick Oct. 20, 2004

Oct. 20, 2004

We are pleased to announce that ActivePython 2.4b1 is now available from: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePython This is a beta release matching the recently tagged core Python 2.4b1. Builds for Windows, Linux and Solaris are available. We would welcome any and all feedback to: ActivePython-feedback(a)ActiveState.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePython What is ActivePython? --------------------- ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Python. Builds for Windows, Linux and Solaris and made freely available. In addition to the Python core, ActivePython includes commonly used external modules such as expat for XML processing, zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the bsddb database library, Tcl/Tk 8.4.4 (with Tix); the PyWin32 suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including the Pythonwin IDE, bindings to the Win32 API and Windows COM; and more. ActivePython also includes a wealth of Python documentation, including: - the core Python docs; - Andrew Kuchling's "What's New in Python" series; - the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python; - Mark Pilgrim's excellent "Dive into Python"; and - a snapshot of the Python FAQs, HOWTOs and PEPs. An online version of the docs can be found here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/welcome.html Thanks, and enjoy! Trent -- Trent Mick trentm(a)activestate.com

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NorthWest(USA) Python Sprint #2 - October 23,24
by Brian Dorsey Oct. 20, 2004

Oct. 20, 2004

SeaPIG (the Seattle Python Interest Group) is excited to announce the NORTHWEST PYTHON SPRINT #2 October 23-24, 2004 Bellevue, Washington, USA http://seapig.org/NorthwestPythonSprint The cost is FREE, thanks to our host Construx Software. There will be a large, comfortable room seating 50+ people at tables, wireless and wired Internet access, and a projector for demonstrations. We have the room reserved for Saturday and Sunday, but feel free to drop in whenever you can make it. Kevin Altis will be giving a short intro to PythonCard (http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/) and coaching a sprint. >From his blog: I'll be giving a presentation on PythonCard Saturday morning as well as helping people work on their own PythonCard projects, fix bugs, and make additions to the framework and tools. Which projects we tackle will depend on how many people show up and what interests them the most. (http://altis.pycs.net/2004/09/30.html) We have plenty of space, so feel free to sign up to coach other projects or just bring your own and look for a partner. What is a sprint? A sprint is a group of people who gather for a day or more to work on a common software project. The members choose individual tasks and usually work solo or in pairs in the same room, then get together periodically to compare notes. We'll follow the model that has worked successfully at the past several Python conferences: several groups working on different projects in the same room. Past sprints have done development work on the Python core, Twisted, Docutils, Webware, Zope, Chandler, etc. Most projects have a variety of tasks that need to be done -- coding modules, designing test suites, squashing bugs, writing user documentation and developer documentation, brainstorming design strategies, planning promotional activities, etc -- so there's something for every skill level. You'll need to bring a laptop, or if you don't have one you can pair with somebody who does. If you'd like to coach a sprint, sign up to attend, propose a lightning talk or demonstration, or just get more information, see our wiki page: http://seapig.org/NorthwestPythonSprint or contact: seattle-python(a)lists.seapig.org or Brian Dorsey <brian at dorseys.org>, 206-619-6975 Mike Orr <mso at oz.net>, 206-240-4250 Construx is located at 11820 Northup Way #E200, Bellevue WA 98005. It's eight miles from downtown Seattle; twenty from Sea-Tac Airport. (http://seapig.org/ConstruxMeetingLocation) Carpools and homestays are available if you contact us in advance.

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Albatross 1.20 released
by Andrew McNamara Oct. 19, 2004

Oct. 19, 2004

OVERVIEW Albatross is a small toolkit for developing highly stateful web applications. The toolkit has been designed to take a lot of the pain out of constructing intranet applications although you can also use Albatross for deploying publicly accessed web applications. In slightly more than 3000 lines of Python (according to pycount) you get the following: * An extensible HTML templating system similar to DTML including tags for: - Conditional processing. - Macro definition and expansion. - Sequence iteration and pagination. - Tree browsing. - Lookup tables to translate Python values to arbitrary template text. * Application classes which offer the following features: - Optional server side or browser side sessions. - The ability to place Python code for each page in a dynamically loaded module, or to place all page processing code in a single mainline. * The ability to deploy applications as CGI, FastCGI, mod_python or a pure python HTTP server by changing less than 10 lines of code. The toolkit application functionality is defined by a collection of fine grained mixin classes. Nine different application types and six different execution contexts are prepackaged, you are able to define your own drop in replacements for any of the mixins to alter any aspect of the toolkit semantics. Application deployment is controlled by your choice of either cgi, FastCGI, mod_python, or BaseHTTPServer Request class. It should be possible to develop a Request class for Medusa or Twisted to allow applications to be deployed on those platforms with minimal changes. Albatross comes with over 160 pages of documentation. HTML, PDF and PostScript formatted documentation is available from the toolkit homepage. The toolkit homepage: http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/ The Albatross mailing list subscription and archives: http://object-craft.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/albatross-users CHANGES SINCE 1.1 There have been many improvements and bug fixes since release 1.1. The following page describes the changes in detail. http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/albatross/rel-1.20.html Highlights include: * A new BranchingSessionContext application context class, that provides better syncronisation between browser state and application state when the application state is stored server-side. * Improved adapters for the different deployment modes (CGI, FastCGI, mod_python, standalone, etc). Application status codes (such as HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) are now returned to the browser. * The page module loader in PageModuleMixin has been reimplemented so that it does not pollute sys.modules. Page modules are now loaded into a synthetic module's namespace, rather than the global module namespace. This will break code that defined classes in page modules and placed instances of those classes into the session. * Multi-instance response headers are now supported (so, for example, more than one Cookie can be set. The ResponseMixin.get_header() method now returns a list rather than a single string. ctx.req_equals(name) now checks for name.x if name is not found. This makes using image maps as buttons easier. * Under some circumstances, redirect_url() would redirect to incorrect or invalid URLs (for example, an https app would redirect to http) - the URI parsing has been refactored, and this bug has been fixed. Tests were also added for the refactored URI parsing. * Several cookie handling bugs were fixed. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/

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Cameron Laird Wins Frank Willison Award
by Guido van Rossum Oct. 18, 2004

Oct. 18, 2004

Better late than never: http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1237 -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Myghty 0.94 Released
by mike bayer Oct. 18, 2004

Oct. 18, 2004

Myghty 0.94 Released Myghty is an all-new Python Server Page (PSP) templating system designed for large-scale, high availablity websites and applications. Written and optimized from the ground up to complement mod_python, as well as standalone, CGI and application embedded environments, its conceptual design and syntax is derived from HTML::Mason, the default web application platform for the mod_perl world. It is designed with both the migrating Mason user and the original Python user in mind, supporting the full featureset of Mason, including components, methods, inheritance, autohandlers, dhandlers, caching, friendly exception handling, etc. as well as enhancements including full Python whitespace support, component- specific autoflush, cache and whitespace trim flags, thread-global code sections, and a streamlined design taking full advantage of Python's unique architectural features. Compares favorably to other Python templating solutions such as Cheetah and Spyce. The component cache API is released as of version 0.94 and includes in- memory and dbm-file based cache implementations, with support for new implementations configurable at runtime. The caching API allows fine- grained caching control for component output as well as user defined data structures, synchronized and shared among multiple threads, processes, or both. Myghty has gained a small userbase in just its first two months which is growing at a fast pace, receiving favorable reviews for its ease of use, smooth operation, and great flexibility. Myghty is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Documentation, examples and download links can be found at: http://www.myghty.org Michael Bayer mike_mp(a)zzzcomputing.com <P><A HREF="http://www.myghty.org">Myghty 0.94</A> - A high performance Python Server Page templating system derived from HTML::Mason. (18-Oct-04)

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 18)
by Ville Vainio Oct. 18, 2004

Oct. 18, 2004

QOTW: "Other than the parts about 'SADISTS and PERVERTS', what portion was on topic?" - Peter Hansen, commenting a spam posting http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=50285732810cb768 "Python makes me very lazy. Writing a report in LaTeX today, it was actually easier for me to make up a syntax for tagging math symbols (put into comments in the LaTeX source), and extract those and build a List Of Symbols with a python preprocessor before texification, rather than find (and figure out how to use) the correct LaTeX package for that." - Caleb Hattingh http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=175f4d840fbb6df2 The Boo thread inspires Doug Holton to muse about the future possibilites of the project, while 'Neuruss' relays news about the status of the highly anticipated Starkiller project. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=V8SdnRfq9bLtQvfcRVn-vg%40comcast.com http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=278de0e.0410111836.3a5314e0%40posti… Daniel Bickett learns how to use the Windows XP balloon tips from Python. Once again, ctypes is just the ticket. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4712.1097513406.5135.python… http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/ Blow your technical mind *and* stamp your passport: see Lithuania in autumn, on the occasion of the next PyPy sprint. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4ce1fbd505bad21f Mike Mussman needs to pass a live socket to another process. Apart from the well-known posix fork()-based solution, we learn that there is actually a relatively clean way to do it in Windows as well. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=5d00592f.0410110923.2bb2b1ea%40post… Irmen de Jong announces a new release of the Snakelets web programming framework, and gets in an interesting discussion about implementing the new, official WSGI API for it and the benefits it would provide. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416ae4b9%240%2478749%24e4fe514c%40n… http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.4769.1097609657.5135.python… Denis Wendum learns that the reverse version of the comparison operator __lt__ is __gt__, not __rlt__, but the discussion quickly turns towards the differences in attribute access between classic and new style classes. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416BD8E7.9885FEBD%40pasdepourriels.… Nick needs to know how to change the desktop background in Windows http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=416c8404%241_3%40alt.athenanews.com Mabororshi wonders about rewriting the Linux kernel in python. Posters question the virtues of such an endeavour, especially that of a pure python approach, but writing an OS kernel in Python not only doesn't seem so far-fetched - it's been done, as can be seen from the thread. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=10mrba51r9dql4f%40corp.supernews.com IPython, besides changing the license to BSD, will be going through a major cleanup in the immediate future. Fernando Perez, the author of the software, wouldn't mind code contributions. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.4814.1097652544.5135.python-li… John finds out that at this time, CORBA is probably the optimal way to get COM-like functionality for Python in Linux. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=ba129ce7.0410111812.52f88cac%40post… Python 2.4, beta 1 is out. Especially notable with this release is the inclusion of the new "subprocess" module. http://www.python.org/2.4/ http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0324.html ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Cetus collects Python hyperlinks. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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ANN: curses-extra 0.3
by Riccardo Galli Oct. 17, 2004

Oct. 17, 2004

curses-extra offers some widgets written using curses module. Version 0.3 is now available for download from http://www.sideralis.net/index.php?action=4&pjid=20 Changes in curses_extra 0.3 --------------------------- added Label widget added TextEntry widget added TextView widget added documentation, browsable with pydoc or epydoc examples improved packaged with distutils bugfixes =========================== The following classes and functions are present in the module Widget Button ButtonBar #bar of buttons (automatically manage arrow keys) CheckButton RadioButton CheckButtonList #list of checkbutton (as ButtonBar) ComboBox Label Menu MenuBar TextEntry TextView add_shortcut(pattern,action) #check combinations of keys, eg <ctrl>H use_shortcut(c,obj) #check if character is a shortcut, and use it # in case #NOTE: widgets auto-check for the shortcuts chgat(win[,y,x],count,attr,color) #change attributes of an area -- -=Riccardo Galli=- _,e. s~ `` ~@. ideralis Programs . ol `**~ http://www.sideralis.net

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RELEASED Python 2.4, beta 1
by Anthony Baxter Oct. 17, 2004

Oct. 17, 2004

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first beta of Python 2.4. Python 2.4b1 is an beta release. We'd greatly appreciate it if you could download it, kick the tires and let us know of any problems you find, but it is probably not suitable for production usage. ~ http://www.python.org/2.4 Notable changes in beta1 include a new subprocess module to provide a more convenient interface to spawning processes and a new command line argument -m modulename to run a module from the library. See either the highlights, the What's New in Python 2.4, or the detailed NEWS file -- all available from the Python 2.4 webpage. This is the first beta release of Python 2.4. Python 2.4 is now in the beta part of the release cycle - there should be few or no new features, merely bug fixes. There will be at least one more beta in a couple of weeks, followed by a release candidate and then the final release. Please log any problems you have with this release in the SourceForge bug tracker (noting that you're using 2.4b1): ~ http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470 Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBcoEMDt3F8mpFyBYRAhJhAKCCclb5ytuljQIGvIz9dIV2LmL0KQCgl5DX 357fPses//NSjyK+7B10YPg= =lzWC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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python-dev Summary for 2004-09-16 through 2004-09-30
by Brett C Oct. 17, 2004

Oct. 17, 2004

python-dev Summary for 2004-09-16 through 2004-09-30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is a summary of traffic on the `python-dev mailing list`_ from September 16, 2004 through September 30, 2004. It is intended to inform the wider Python community of on-going developments on the list. To comment on anything mentioned here, just post to `comp.lang.python`_ (or email python-list(a)python.org which is a gateway to the newsgroup) with a subject line mentioning what you are discussing. All python-dev members are interested in seeing ideas discussed by the community, so don't hesitate to take a stance on something. And if all of this really interests you then get involved and join `python-dev`_! This is the forty-ninth summary written by Brett Cannon (Wow, my thesis gives an entire .5% speed-up on pystone at the moment; ain't that grand...). To contact me, please send email to brett at python.org ; I do not have the time to keep up on comp.lang.python and thus do not always catch follow-ups posted there. All summaries are archived at http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ . Please note that this summary is written using reStructuredText_ which can be found at http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html . Any unfamiliar punctuation is probably markup for reST_ (otherwise it is probably regular expression syntax or a typo =); you can safely ignore it, although I suggest learning reST; it's simple and is accepted for `PEP markup`_ and gives some perks for the HTML output. Also, because of the wonders of programs that like to reformat text, I cannot guarantee you will be able to run the text version of this summary through Docutils_ as-is unless it is from the `original text file`_. .. _PEP Markup: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0012.html The in-development version of the documentation for Python can be found at http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/ and should be used when looking up any documentation on new code; otherwise use the current documentation as found at http://docs.python.org/ . PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) are located at http://www.python.org/peps/ . To view files in the Python CVS online, go to http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/ . Reported bugs and suggested patches can be found at the SourceForge_ project page. The `Python Software Foundation`_ is the non-profit organization that holds the intellectual property for Python. It also tries to forward the development and use of Python. But the PSF_ cannot do this without donations. You can make a donation at http://python.org/psf/donations.html . Every penny helps so even a small donation (you can donate through PayPal or by check) helps. .. _python-dev: http://www.python.org/dev/ .. _SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470 .. _python-dev mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev .. _comp.lang.python: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.python .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sf.net/ .. _reST: .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html .. _PSF: .. _Python Software Foundation: http://python.org/psf/ .. contents:: .. _last summary: http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2004-09-01_2004-09-15.html .. _original text file: http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2004-09-16_2004-09-30.ht ===================== Summary Announcements ===================== Wow. This must have been the easiest summary I have ever done. Why can't they all be like this? I didn't even skip that much! This summary also marks the first instance of having a contributing writer (ignoring the time when Raymond Hettinger was guest writer and wrote the whole summary himself). So thanks to Michael Chermside for writing up those summaries. And this is open to anyone, so if you feel that one of the skipped threads is worth summarizing and you catch it on the draft I send out of the Summary please mail them to me and it will probably get included. ========= Summaries ========= ------------------------------------------ Assume nothing when mutability is possible ------------------------------------------ Tim Peters discovered a new way to create an infinite list thanks to generator expressions. But what really came out of this whole discussion came about when someone else came up with an example that exposed a bug in list.extend(). The first thing was that "you can't assume anything about a mutable object after potentially calling back into Python." Basically you can't assume the state of any mutable object was not changed if you execute Python code from C. While it might seem handy to store state while in a loop for instance, you can't count on things not changing by the time you get control back so you just have to do it the hard way and get state all over again. Second was that you need to be careful when dealing with iterators. If you mutate an iterator while iterating you don't have a guarantee it won't explode in your face. Unless you explicitly support it, document it, and take care to protect against it then just don't assume you can mutate an iterator while using it. Contributing threads: - `A cute new way to get an infinite loop <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049054.html>`__ - `More data points <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049080.html>`__ ----------------------------- The fewer licenses the better ----------------------------- The idea of copying some code from OpenSSH_ for better pty handling was proposed. This was frowned upon since that becomes one more legal issue to keep track of. Minimizing the licenses that Python must keep track of and make sure to comply with, no matter how friendly, is a good thing. .. _OpenSSH: http://www.openssh.org/ Contributing threads: - `using openssh's pty code <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049085.html>`__ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Trying to deal with the exception hierarchy in a backwards-friendly way ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Coghlan came up with the idea of having a tuple that contained all of the exceptions you normally would not want to catch in a blanket 'except' statement; KeyboardInterrupt, MemoryError, SystemExit, etc.). This tuple was proposed to live in sys.special_exceptions with the intended usage of:: try: pass # stuff... except sys.special_exceptions: raise # exceptions that you would not want to catch should keep propogating up the call chain except: pass # if you reach here the exception should not be a *huge* deal Obviously the best solution is to just clean up the exception hierarchy, but that breaks backwards-compatibility. But this idea seemed to lose steam. Contributing threads: - `Proposing a sys.special_exceptions tuple <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049139.html>`__ -------------- Built on beer! -------------- by Michael Chermside In this short thread Guido admits that Python *is* really built on beer: "...it's true! During the early days, when hacking on Python, I often lived on stroopwafels and beer." Contributing threads: - `built on beer? <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049032.html>`__ ----------------------------------- Docs still available in gzip format ----------------------------------- by Michael Chermside Fred Drake suggested that we stop providing the Python documentation in gzip format. We offered the zip and bzip2 formats which have unique advantages (bzip2 compresses better and zip has a directory built in so individual files can be extracted) over gzip and he wanted to reduce the number of different formats offered. However, there was much dissention, so the final decision was to retain the format. Contributing threads: - `Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases. <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/048987.html>`__ --------------------------------------------------------- Making running stdlib modules as scripts that much easier --------------------------------------------------------- Nick Coghlan contributed a patch for a new command-line option, ``-m``, that will search sys.path for a module of that name and execute it as a ``__main__``. This can be really handy for things such as checking the docstrings of a module (``python -m pydoc heapq``) and such. Currently, though, it only for top-level modules in sys.path and thus ignores packages. If you want that functionality there is a recipe by Nick on the Python Cookbook at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/307772 . There is also discussions going on python-dev about how to possibly add this in the future. Contributing threads: - `Running a module as a script <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049138.html>`__ =============== Skipped Threads =============== - Decimal, copyright and license - Noam's open regex requests - Socket/Asyncore bug needs attention - open('/dev/null').read() -> MemoryError - Finding the module from PyTypeObject? - Odd compile errors for bad genexps

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