python-dev summary 2001-02-01 - 2001-02-15

[Mark Jackson]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

>  This is the first python-dev summary written by Michael Hudson.

Thank you!

>  was proposed.  Discussion went round and round for a while and moved
>  on to more general iteration constructs, prompting Ka-Ping Yee to
>  write a PEP entitled "iterators":
> 
>   <http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0234.html>
> 
>  Please comment!

With the possible exception of ":spam" and "eggs:" it doesn't look like
it would make code less readable, and the functionality seems good.
Mildly in favor.

>    * Python's release schedule *
> 
>  Skip Montanaro raised some concerns about Python's accelerated
>  release schedule, and it was pointed out that the default Python for
>  both debian unstable and Redhat 7.1 beta was still 1.5.2.  Have
>  *you* upgraded to Python 2.0?  If not, why not?

Ran into difficulties building on Solaris and didn't have the time to
resolve them.

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