ANN: SE 2.3. Available now

[Frederic Rentsch]

Gary Herron wrote:
> Frederic Rentsch wrote:
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>> A few Cheese Shop upload problems have been solved with the help of this 
>> creative group. Thank you all!
>>
>> Version 2.2 beta should be phased out. It has a functional defect, 
>> missing matches with a very low statistical probability. Version 2.3 has 
>> this fixed.
>>
>>    Download URL: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SE/2.3
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> As a matter of polite netiquette, a message like this really ought to
> have a paragraph telling us what SE *is*.    (Unless it's a secret :-))
>
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Thanks for the inquiry. I've been hawking this thing so persistently of 
late that I'm afraid to start being perceived as a nuisance. SE is a 
stream editor that is particularly easy  and fast to use. A summary of 
its characteristics is only a click away at the URL a few lines up from 
this line.

Frederic
>> A list of possible handling improvements is being made to be 
>> incorporated in the next version, One major flaw of the interface design 
>> came to light the other day when a user reported a non-functioning 
>> Editor Object made with a file name. If the constructor cannot find the 
>> file it records the fact in the object's log without making the user 
>> aware that his Editor Object is incomplete or altogether devoid of 
>> substitutions. His obvious conclusion is that the damn thing isn't 
>> working right.
>>    Compile errors should certainly be reported at compile time. The next 
>> version will send all messages being logged also to stderr by default. 
>> The thing to do with the current version, if it appears to malfunction, 
>> is to inspect the log and the compiled substitutions.
>>
>>  >>> Editor = SE.SE ('operators.se')
>>  >>> Editor.show_log ()
>>
>> Fri Nov 03 12:49:17 2006 - Compiler - Ignoring single word 
>> 'operators.se'. Not an existing file 'operators.se'.
>>
>>  >>> Editor = SE.SE ('se/operators.se')   # path was missing
>>  >>> Editor.show_log ()
>>
>> (Log is empty. All is well.)
>>
>>  >>> Editor.show (show_translators = 1)
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> Single-Byte Targets
>>     1: |<|->|LT|
>>     2: |>|->|GT|
>>
>> Multi-Byte Targets
>>     3: |&&|->|AND|
>>     4: ||||->|OR|
>>
>> etc...
>>
>> The display makes definition errors conspicuous. Missing definitions 
>> indicate malformed or redefined (overwritten) ones.
>>
>>
>> Frederic
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