I'd like to begin writing an article about 2.0's Unicode support. Before beginning, has anyone else already begun this task? If yes, please let me know... (Incidentally, did a 2.0 press release ever go out? Is someone going to write one?) --amk
(Incidentally, did a 2.0 press release ever go out? Is someone going to write one?)
No; and not me... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:15:31PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Little-known fact: Guido actually does nothing but sit in his pyjamas (with feet!) all day, drinking cocoa, eating Hostess Twinkies and watching Tiny Toons, while his long-suffering co-workers implement and debug the fantastically complex algorithms that go into Python. Here's some rough text: Can someone with a clue about writing a good press release give this a look? --amk Reston, VA, Oct 25 2000: The Python development team today announced the release of version 2.0 of the Python programming language. Version 2.0 adds a number of significant new features: * Unicode support, in the form of a new Unicode data type, library additions for conversion to/from various encodings, and support for displaying Unicode strings in Tk widgets. * New language features: garbage collection of cycles, list comprehensions, augmented assignment, string methods. * Distutils, a new system for making Python modules and extensions easily available to a wider audience with very little overhead for build/release/install mechanics. * Improved XML support, including support for the Simple API for XML (SAX2), a miniature Document Object Model (DOM), and the Expat parser. * Many library improvements, including HTTP/1.1 support, an enhanced curses module, the ability to read and write ZIP-format files, support for the Windows registry, and many more minor improvements. * Ports to new platforms: 64-bit Windows on the Itanium processor, Windows CE, and Darwin/MacOS X. Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for rapid application development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance, and it supports modules and packages, encouraging program modularity and code reuse. Many extension modules for Python have been written to interface with other libraries and applications. Some of the available modules include: * Support for many relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL) * GUI toolkits (Tk, Windows MFC, wxWindows, KDE, GNOME) * Internet protocols (LDAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC, SOAP) * Mathematics (Numeric Python) Python is used for many different purposes, particularly cross-platform rapid development, Web development, and scripting of scientific applications. Some of the applications using Python include: * Zope, the leading Open Source web application server * The Mailman mailing list manager * The Reportlab PDF document generation toolset * XXX suggestions? XXX too darn many lists here? <Insert 4 or 5 quotations from various people here. Possible people: someone from Digital Creations, PythonWare, Reportlabs, ActiveState/O'Reilly, TheKompany, Infoseek, Red Hat, a developer from some well-known free software project that uses Python> The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are available free of charge and are distributed under an open-source license. Ports have been made to all major platforms, such as Windows, MacOS, and many Unix variants (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.) New versions are developed collaboratively by a core group of over 20 developers. About BeOpen: <get text for this> About Python: More information about Python can be obtained from the official Python website, http://www.python.org. (XXX Do you include About sections for the companies that provide quotes?) Press contacts: XXX whose address?
Andrew Kuchling wrote:
I've already started something in that direction. The plan is to write down the story of adding Unicode support to Python, the pifalls, solutions, hacks, etc. I'll probably submit it to DDJ. A article about *using* Unicode support would of course be a nice complement to get a feeling of how it's like working with the implementation :-)
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:23:19PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
A article about *using* Unicode support would of course be a nice complement to get a feeling of how it's like working
And that's what I want to write, so it works out nicely; great! Finn, your comment has been noted; I'll take note of any differences with Jython's Unicode support. A draft will be announced on python-dev, whenever it actually gets done. --amk
(Incidentally, did a 2.0 press release ever go out? Is someone going to write one?)
No; and not me... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:15:31PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Little-known fact: Guido actually does nothing but sit in his pyjamas (with feet!) all day, drinking cocoa, eating Hostess Twinkies and watching Tiny Toons, while his long-suffering co-workers implement and debug the fantastically complex algorithms that go into Python. Here's some rough text: Can someone with a clue about writing a good press release give this a look? --amk Reston, VA, Oct 25 2000: The Python development team today announced the release of version 2.0 of the Python programming language. Version 2.0 adds a number of significant new features: * Unicode support, in the form of a new Unicode data type, library additions for conversion to/from various encodings, and support for displaying Unicode strings in Tk widgets. * New language features: garbage collection of cycles, list comprehensions, augmented assignment, string methods. * Distutils, a new system for making Python modules and extensions easily available to a wider audience with very little overhead for build/release/install mechanics. * Improved XML support, including support for the Simple API for XML (SAX2), a miniature Document Object Model (DOM), and the Expat parser. * Many library improvements, including HTTP/1.1 support, an enhanced curses module, the ability to read and write ZIP-format files, support for the Windows registry, and many more minor improvements. * Ports to new platforms: 64-bit Windows on the Itanium processor, Windows CE, and Darwin/MacOS X. Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for rapid application development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance, and it supports modules and packages, encouraging program modularity and code reuse. Many extension modules for Python have been written to interface with other libraries and applications. Some of the available modules include: * Support for many relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL) * GUI toolkits (Tk, Windows MFC, wxWindows, KDE, GNOME) * Internet protocols (LDAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC, SOAP) * Mathematics (Numeric Python) Python is used for many different purposes, particularly cross-platform rapid development, Web development, and scripting of scientific applications. Some of the applications using Python include: * Zope, the leading Open Source web application server * The Mailman mailing list manager * The Reportlab PDF document generation toolset * XXX suggestions? XXX too darn many lists here? <Insert 4 or 5 quotations from various people here. Possible people: someone from Digital Creations, PythonWare, Reportlabs, ActiveState/O'Reilly, TheKompany, Infoseek, Red Hat, a developer from some well-known free software project that uses Python> The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are available free of charge and are distributed under an open-source license. Ports have been made to all major platforms, such as Windows, MacOS, and many Unix variants (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.) New versions are developed collaboratively by a core group of over 20 developers. About BeOpen: <get text for this> About Python: More information about Python can be obtained from the official Python website, http://www.python.org. (XXX Do you include About sections for the companies that provide quotes?) Press contacts: XXX whose address?
Andrew Kuchling wrote:
I've already started something in that direction. The plan is to write down the story of adding Unicode support to Python, the pifalls, solutions, hacks, etc. I'll probably submit it to DDJ. A article about *using* Unicode support would of course be a nice complement to get a feeling of how it's like working with the implementation :-)
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:23:19PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
A article about *using* Unicode support would of course be a nice complement to get a feeling of how it's like working
And that's what I want to write, so it works out nicely; great! Finn, your comment has been noted; I'll take note of any differences with Jython's Unicode support. A draft will be announced on python-dev, whenever it actually gets done. --amk
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