ANN: SE 2.3. Available now

[Gary Herron]

Frederic Rentsch wrote:
> 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
>   
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 :-))

> 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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