With school starting up again Monday and New Years being tomorrow I don't plan to send this out until Tuesday. Hope everyone has a good New Years. -Brett ----------------------------------- ===================== Summary Announcements ===================== PyCon_ is coming up! Being held March 23-25 in Washington, DC, registration is now open at http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/register.html for credit card users (you can pay by check as well; see the general info page for the conference). .. _PyCon: http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/ ========= Summaries ========= --------------------------------------------- Would you like the source with your function? --------------------------------------------- Would you like all functions and classes to contain a __pycode__ attribute that contains a string of the code used to compile that code object? Well, that very idea was proposed. You would use a command-line switch to turn on the feature in order to remove the memory and any performance overhead for the default case of not needing this feature. Some might ask why this is needed when inspect.getsource and its ilk exist. The perk is that __pycode__ would always exist while inspect.getsource is a best attempt but cannot guarantee it will have the source. Beyond a suggested name change to __source__, various people have suggested very different uses. Some see it as a convenient way to save interpreter work easily and thus not lose any nice code snippet developed interactively. Others see a more programmatic use (such as AOP "advice" injection). Both are rather different and led to the thread ending on the suggestion that a PEP be written that specifies what the intended use-case to make sure that need is properly met. Contributing threads: - `__pycode__ extension <>`__ =============== Skipped Threads =============== - PEP 310 Status - python 2.3.5 release? look for 2.3.5 possibly in January - Current CVS, Cygwin and "make test" - syntactic shortcut - unpack to variably sizedlist mostly discussed `last summary`_ - Python 2.4, MS .NET 1.1 and distutils - Trouble installing 2.4 - Looking for authoritative documentation on packages, import & ihooks no docs exist, but feel free to write some! =) - String literal concatenation & docstrings literal string concatenation only works if the newline separating the strings is not significant to the parser - print "%X" % id(object()) not so nice does 'id' need to return only a positive? No, but it would be nice. - Bug in PyLocale_strcoll - Multilib strikes back - File encodings file.write does not work with Unicode strings; have to decode them to ASCII on your own