Python-dev summary: July 1-15

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> This is a first experiment in whether I can make a useful,
> interesting, somewhat coherent summary of python-dev activity.
> If reaction is favorable, and time permits, it may become a biweekly
> posting.
> 
> --amk

I think a lot of people would appreciate this (including me)!

[snip]

> ESR suggested adding a standard lexer to the core, and /F suggested an
> extension to regular expressions that would make them more useful for
> tokenizing:
>         http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/012032.html

Wasn't there an announcement about plex(?) a little while ago (a pure
python implementation of a lexer)?

-- bjorn