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  • Highlights: Python 2.4

    ...expressions in regular expressions. In addition, the underlying SRE engine is now non-recursive (previously, certain types of regular expression would run into troubles with recursion). The weakref module now supports a wider variety of Python objects includes Python functions, class instances, sets, frozensets, deques, arrays, files, sockets and regular expression objects. In addition, the weakref type is now a new-style object which can be subclassed. xmlrpclib now supports a multi-call extens...

  • String-SIG - SIG on Enhancement of Python String Processing

    ...regular expression pattern matching capabilities with a compatable syntax to Perl. Pipermail archives Archives at reference.com

  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    ...regular expressions. A scanner based on regular expressions is usually implemented as an alternative of all token definitions. For XPath, a fragment of this expressions looks like this: (?P<Number>\\d+(\\.\\d*)?|\\.\\d+)| (?P<VariableReference>\\$""" + QName + """)| (?P<NCName>"""+NCName+""")| (?P<QName>"""+QName+""")| (?P<LPAREN>\\()| (?P<RPAREN>\\))| (?P<STAR>\\*)| ... (?P<ExprWhiteSpace>[ \t\n\r]+)...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (January 14, 2003)

    ...Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 14, 2003. A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 13:08 EST. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, Guido van Rossum, Thomas Wouters, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Martin von Loewis, David Ascher. ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (February 8, 2005)

    ...Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors February 8, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 1:00 EST. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, Stephan Deibel, and Guido van Rossum. Neal Norwitz and Kurt Kaiser also attended the meeting. Hylton took minutes. 2. Meeting minu...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 10, 2005)

    ...Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 10, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Stephan Deibel, Tim Peters, Andrew Kuchling, and Martin v. Löwis. Kurt Kaiser and Neal Norwitz also attended the meeting. von Löwis took minutes. 2. Meeting minu...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 10, 2003)

    ...Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors June 10, 2003 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Guido van Rossum, president of the Foundation and chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: David Ascher, Guido van Rossum, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Martin von Löwis, Tim Peters, Jeremy Hylton. Thomas Wouters was a...

  • Highlights: Python 2.5

    ...regular expressions. Some other smaller modules added to the standard library include uuid, msilib and spwd.

  • Python 1.6

    ...regular expression engine, SRE by Fredrik Lundh, is fully backwards compatible with the old engine, and is in fact invoked using the same interface (the "re" module). You can explicitly invoke the old engine by import pre, or the SRE engine by importing sre. SRE is faster than pre, and supports Unicode (which was the main reason to put effort in yet another new regular expression engine -- this is at least the fourth!). Other Changes Other changes that won't break c...

  • Release – Python 3.11.7

    Version: None

    Released: Dec. 4, 2023

    This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.7 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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  • Release – Python 3.8.10

    Version: None

    Released: May 3, 2021

    This is the tenth and final regular maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.10, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. According …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (March 8, 2001)

    ...Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors March 8, 2001 Long Beach, Calif., USA A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "Foundation") Board of Directors was held at the Hilton Long Beach at 2 p.m. Dick Hardt, president of the Foundation, presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the Meeting: David Ascher, Paul Everitt, Fredrik Lundh, Tim Peters, Guido van Rossum, Greg Stein, Thomas Wouters. No memb...

  • Release – Python 2.0.1

    Version: None

    Released: June 22, 2001

    We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good …

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  • Python 2.0.1 Release

    ...regular expression matching, used by the "re" module) was brought in line with the version distributed with Python 2.1; this is stable feature-wise but much improved bug-wise. For the full scoop, see the release notes. Download the release Windows users should download Python-2.0.1.exe, the Windows installer, from one of the download locations below, run it, and follow the friendly instructions on the screen to complete the installation. (Python-2.0.1-Debug.zip is a set of DLLs for...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 10-Apr-2002

    ...regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Restricted execution security option Available third party modules for database access, math, 3D modeling, image processing, LDAP, WebDAV, jabber, MIDI, and much more Python runs o...

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...regular expression engine, SRE by Fredrik Lundh, is fully backwards compatible with the old engine, and is in fact invoked using the same interface (the "re" module). You can explicitly invoke the old engine by import pre, or the SRE engine by importing sre. SRE is faster than pre, and supports Unicode (which was the main reason to put effort in yet another new regular expression engine -- this is at least the fourth!). Other Changes Other changes that won't break code but are nic...

  • Release – Python 3.11.6

    Version: None

    Released: Oct. 2, 2023

    This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.6 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 8-Apr-2002

    ...regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Restricted execution security option Available third party modules for database access, math, 3D modeling, image processing, LDAP, WebDAV, jabber, MIDI, and much more Python runs on Mic...

  • Python Software Foundation: Press Release 27-Dec-2004

    ...regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Available third party modules for database access, scientific computation, visualization, 3D modeling, image processing, LDAP, WebDAV, jabber, MIDI, game development, and much more ...

  • Release – Python 3.11.8

    Version: None

    Released: Feb. 6, 2024

    This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.8 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Some of the new major new features and changes in Python …

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