Nice and short summary this time. Plan to send this off Wednesday or Thursday so get corrections in before then.
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===================== Summary Announcements ===================== You can still `register http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/register.html`__ for `PyCon`_. The `schedule of talks`_ is now online. Jim Hugunin is lined up to be the keynote speaker on the first day with Guido being the keynote on Thursday. Once again PyCon looks like it is going to be great.
On a different note, as I am sure you are all aware I am still about a month behind in summaries. School this quarter for me has just turned out hectic. I think it is lack of motivation thanks to having finished my 14 doctoral applications just a little over a week ago (and no, that number is not a typo). I am going to for the first time in my life come up with a very regimented study schedule that will hopefully allow me to fit in weekly Python time so as to allow me to catch up on summaries.
And this summary is not short because I wanted to finish it. 2.5 was released just before the time this summary covers so most stuff was on bug fixes discovered after the release.
.. _PyCon: http://www.pycon.org/ .. _schedule of talks: http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/schedule.html
======= Summary ======= ------------- PEP movements ------------- I introduced a `proto-PEP http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/050753.html`__ to the list on how one can go about changing CPython's bytecode. It will need rewriting once the AST branch is merged into HEAD on CVS. Plus I need to get a PEP number assigned to me. =)
Contributing threads: - ` proto-pep: How to change Python's bytecode <>`__
------------------------------------ Handling versioning within a package ------------------------------------ The suggestion of extending import syntax to support explicit version importation came up. The idea was to have something along the lines of ``import foo version 2, 4`` so that one can have packages that contain different versions of itself and to provide an easy way to specify which version was desired.
The idea didn't fly, though. The main objection was that import-as support was all you really needed; ``import foo_2_4 as foo``. And if you had a ton of references to a specific package and didn't want to burden yourself with explicit imports, one can always have a single place before codes starts executing doing ``import foo_2_4; sys.modules["foo"] = foo_2_4``. And that itself can even be lower by creating a foo.py file that does the above for you.
You can also look at how wxPython handles it at http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/MultiVersionInstalls .
Contributing threads: - `Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] The versioning question... <>`__
=============== Skipped Threads =============== - Problems compiling Python 2.3.3 on Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4.1 - 2.4 news reaches interesting places see `last summary`_ for coverage of this thread - RE: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules posixmodule.c, 2.300.8.10, 2.300.8.11 - mmap feature or bug? - Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Pythonmarshal.c, 1.79, 1.80 - Latex problem when trying to build documentation - Patches: 1 for the price of 10. - Python for Series 60 released - Website documentation - link to descriptor information - Build extensions for windows python 2.4 what are the compiler rules? - Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src setup.py, 1.208, 1.209 - Zipfile needs? fake 32-bit unsigned int overflow with ``x = x & 0xFFFFFFFFL`` and signed ints with the additional ``if x & 0x80000000L: x -= 0x100000000L`` . - Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Mac/OSX fixapplepython23.py, 1.1, 1.2
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:02:20 -0800, Brett C. bac@ocf.berkeley.edu wrote:
2.5 was released just before the time this summary covers so most stuff was on bug fixes discovered after the release.
Give Guido the time machine keys back!
I assume you meant 2.4, or is this a blatant attempt to get back ahead of schedule with summaries? :-)
Paul.
PS If you look in this month's python-dev archives, you'll see evidence of /F's last attempt to steal the time machine, with a message posted from the "far future" of Feb 23rd, 2005. He clearly stalled the machine, as he posted from an alternate reality. Let this be a warning!
Paul Moore wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:02:20 -0800, Brett C. bac@ocf.berkeley.edu wrote:
2.5 was released just before the time this summary covers so most stuff was on bug fixes discovered after the release.
Give Guido the time machine keys back!
Fine, but I was going to go back in time, win the lottery, and give so much money to the PSF that a bunch of people were going to work on Python full-time for the rest of their lives. It's your fault, Paul, that isn't going to happen now. =)
I assume you meant 2.4, or is this a blatant attempt to get back ahead of schedule with summaries? :-)
=) No, it's a typo. Problem of always using and working on 2.5 but having to remember when I am dealing with older versions.
Paul.
PS If you look in this month's python-dev archives, you'll see evidence of /F's last attempt to steal the time machine, with a message posted from the "far future" of Feb 23rd, 2005. He clearly stalled the machine, as he posted from an alternate reality. Let this be a warning!
Will actually be nice to finally not have to automatically skip the first line in the archive page thanks to that funky email.
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