[Python-Dev] Application for developer status
Paul Prescod
paul@prescod.net
Sun, 02 Jul 2000 10:07:49 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
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> ...
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> My only immediate plan for what to do with developer access is to add
> the browser-launch capability previously discussed on this list. My
> general interest is in improving the standard class library,
> especially in the areas of Internet-protocol support (urllib, ftp,
> telnet, pop, imap, smtp, nntplib, etc.) and mini-language toolkits and
> frameworks (shlex. netrc, Cmd, ConfigParser).
As an aside: I would be pumpld about getting a generic lexer into the
Python distribution. Greg Ewing was working on one and there are various
others out there.
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/
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Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus
The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it
gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that
made the modern world possible.
- The Advent of the Algorithm, by David Berlinski