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[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:20:16AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> As Thomas can tell you, I'm pretty anal about check-in messages, so when
> in doubt, cvs log is your best friend. :)

'Anal' is the right word! I transgressed once, I'll be sure to never do it
again :)

>     JRA> Well, the code base is pretty clean looking, at
>     JRA> least the parts I've gotten into, even if my understanding of
>     JRA> python is not.

Note that Python is the easiest langauge in the world. Did you read the
tutorial yet ? If you're already familiar with programming in some other
language, it's easy to get into, and will teach you everything about the
language itself. Most of the rest you'll want to learn eventually is library
docs, but you can browse those on an as-needed basis.

>     JRA> Any internals doco written yet?  Is their a second tier of
>     JRA> hackers following the list?

> Thomas? :)

I guess I count as a second tier :) I haven't written any documentation yet,
because most of the code is well commented, or easy to follow. (But then
again, Barry and I share some common ground there, both being python
developers. I might just be used to his (possibly adopted) code style :)

If I had time, I could probably write up some documentation... but if I had
time, I could fix a ton of bugs and misfeatures, too ;-P

>     JRA> And will Python 2 finally get around to showing not only the
>     JRA> call but the *values* in tracebacks?  :-)

> Oh man, you should have seen Ka-Ping Yee's cgi driver thingie.

You can see Dr. Mad Ping's cgitb.py module in action at
http://www.lfw.org/python. There's been talk (at a lunchtable at IPC9, so it
is very likely to happen ;) about adding a plaintext version to the std.
Python library for use with normal scripts. I'm definately for it :)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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