MacPython 2.2b1 has been released. This is a beta distribution which will undoubtedly still contain bugs. Installers in various forms can be downloaded via http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html . Python is a high-level programming language that is suitable for simple scripting tasks as well as writing large applications. MacPython offers a lot of Mac-specific extensions, including access to all major MacOS Toolbox modules (QuickDraw, QuickTime, AppleScript and many more), an Integrated Development Environment (in Python!), frameworks for windowing applications, unix-compatible cgi-scripting, image-manipulation libraries, numerical libraries, tk-based machine independent windowing and lots more. It also uniquely among Pythons allows you to create fully selfcontained (and, hence, distributable) applications without needing a C compiler or anything. What's new in MacPython 2.2? - Types and classes are unified, so you can subclass builtin types. - Iterators and generators allow objects to be "looped over" and producer/consumer-style programming. - Accept both unix- and mac-style newlines - Automatic garbage collection - Better Carbon support and better integration with OS X command line Python Known problems with 2.2b1: - Does not work on Mac OS X multiprocessor machines. - BuildApplication fails for programs using packages. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.cwi.nl/~jack | ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/ ++++