This is a summary of traffic on the python-dev mailing list between Apr 12 and Apr 25 (inclusive) 2001. It is intended to inform the wider Python community of ongoing developments. To comment, just post to python-list@python.org or comp.lang.python in the usual way. Give your posting a meaningful subject line, and if it's about a PEP, include the PEP number (e.g. Subject: PEP 201 - Lockstep iteration) All python-dev members are interested in seeing ideas discussed by the community, so don't hesitate to take a stance on a PEP if you have an opinion. This is the sixth summary written by Michael Hudson. Summaries are archived at: http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/ Posting distribution (with apologies to mbm) Number of articles in summary: 293 40 | [|] | [|] | [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] 30 | [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] 20 | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] 10 | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] | [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] [|] 0 +-019-039-037-038-006-028-018-012-042-016-008-023-003-004 Thu 12| Sat 14| Mon 16| Wed 18| Fri 20| Sun 22| Tue 24| Fri 13 Sun 15 Tue 17 Thu 19 Sat 21 Mon 23 Wed 25 * Python 2.1 is released! * After Tim found a bug of staggering subtlety in the dict code: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014272.html And Guido released a release candidate or two: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014205.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014290.html Python 2.1 was unleashed on the world: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014298.html which has already been incorporated into the cygwin distribution: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014311.html * Iterators * Guido asked whether we thought he should check his prototype iterator implementation into the main trunk: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014353.html After everyone said "yes!", he did so, so you can play around with iterators if you build a Python from CVS. Discussion of this feature is going on the python-iterators list at sourceforge: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-iterators * Class methods * Thomas Heller posted another plea for class methods to be included in some future version of Python: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014365.html Discussion wandered around a bit, drifting onto metaclasses and some tantalizing hints of Guido's plans for attacking the dreaded type/class split in Python 2.2. * Suirprise! * Tim Peter's posted a surprising consequence of how Python handles chained comparisons: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014399.html This may elicit a warning from the compiler in 2.2... Cheers, M.