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SIG for development of Python/C++ integration SIG for development of Python/C++ integration The Python C++ SIG is a forum for discussions about the integration of Python and C++, with an emphasis on the development of the Boost.Python library. At the point of this writing (Jan 2002), Boost.Python is undergoing a major rewrite to add powerful new features and to take full advantage of the new type system introduced in Python 2.2. Suggestions regarding the direction of the develop...
SIG on Tabular Databases in Python SIG on Tabular Databases in Python This list is intended to work through and resolve issues related to tabular database access from Python. Being somewhat related, this list may also cover persistency issues in Python. The list will cover a number of topics, attempting to produce documentation, modules, and/or sample code.
Python Tabular Databases SIG: Status Python Tabular Databases SIG: Status April 7, 1999: Revision 2.0 of the Database API specification has been issued as PEP 249. Version 1.0 of the spec is still available as PEP 248, and the topic guide lists modules that comply with it. With the 2.0 revision of the spec completed, possible future directions and discussions may focus on refinements of the specification and implementations for new databases. Object-oriented databases (OOD...
Python Distutils-SIG: Introduction Python Distutils-SIG: Introduction Charter The Distutils-SIG exists to discuss the design, implementation, and maintenance of a suite of module distribution utilities for Python. These utilities are grouped in the 'distutils' package in Python. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing Python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized. There ...
Python Distutils-SIG: Design Proposal Python Distutils-SIG (Prerequisites: please read the proposed interface before trying to plough through this design document; it is very much a sequel to the interface document.) Design Proposal The Distutils' point of view setup.py only has to import one module, distutils.core. This module is responsible for parsing all command-line arguments to setup.py (even though the interpretation of options is di...
Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation Python Distutils-SIG: Documentation User Documents Two documents have been written to cover the Distutils, and are part of Python's standard documentation set: Installing Python Modules This is for end-users, system administrators, and Python programmers who need to install third-party modules to their existing Python installation. It focusses on using the Distutils, b...
Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface Python Distutils-SIG Proposed User Interface In addition to identifying the common tasks and division of labour involved in developing, distributing, and installing Python modules, the "Extension Building Considered Painful" Developer's Day Session also came up with a proposed user interface. The core idea of the interface is that the module developer would provide a small Python script, called setup.py ...
Summary of "Extension Building" Session "Extension Building Considered Painful": Session Summary by Greg Ward The "Extension Building Considered Painful" session at IPC7 was very productive, and there was a good consensus in the room as to what's needed, what will work for various classes of users, and what ideas to steal from other related systems (the closest being Red Hat's RPM and Perl's MakeMaker). Decisions made Everyone seemed to agree with my p...
Python Distutils-SIG: Requirements Python Distutils-SIG Requirements The proposed Module Distribution Utilities for Python, or distutils for short, are needed to fill a number of long-standing holes in the Python distribution and culture. In roughly decreasing order of priority: There must be an easy, standardized way for users and administrators to add new modules (including extension modules) to an existing Python installatio...
Python Distutils-SIG: Tasks and Division of Labour Python Distutils-SIG Tasks and Division of Labour At the Seventh International Python Conference Developer's Day session "Extension Building Considered Painful", we enumerated the tasks necessary to develop, distribute, and install Python modules; arrived at a rough consensus regarding the division of labour necessary to conceptualize any distribution/installation system; and came up with a proposed user...
Doc-SIG - Python Documentation Special Interest Group For discussion of both the form and content of Python documentation. Subscription information Archives
Other Documentation Tools Other Documentation Tools When considering the state of documentation tools for Python, one should consider what is being done for other systems. This should include tools that work with documentation embedded in source code and tools that work with separated documentation. If you can think of additional tools that should be noted, please let me know about them (free or commercial). If you can point to an example of the markup, that would be great; thank...
Documentation Special Interest Group Documentation SIG Status This page is completely out of date. Follow the Doc-SIG mailing list for information on current activities. Emerging Products The Doc SIG members have produced some tools: Doug Hellmann has created HappyDoc, a tool for extracting documentation from Python source code. It differs from other such applications by the fact that it uses the parse tree for a module to...
Structured Text Formatting Rules Structured Text Formatting Rules For the gendoc processor we (Daniel and Robin) have decided on the following format rules for Python doc strings so that they may be marked up in a reasonable manner. People developing other automated tools may think about adopting this standard as well. Feel free to discuss this in the doc-sig list. By and large we have decided to use the Structured Text approach offered by ...
EDU-SIG: Python in Education EDU-SIG: Python in Education More and more, Python is making inroads at all levels in education. Python offers an interactive environment in which to explore procedural, functional and object oriented approaches to problem solving. Its high level data structures and clear syntax make it an ideal first language, while the large number of existing libraries make it suitable to tackle almost any programming tasks. Edu-sig, through its mailing list, provides an infor...
email package SIG email package SIG The email package is a standard Python package that comes with Python. This SIG's mission is to define, implement, enhance, and maintain the email package for Python. Goals include: Improving the API Improving performance and usability Adding support for additional email RFCs Several versions of the email package are available, and may be included with your Python distribution. All are also available as distutils-based standalone pac...
email SIG: Status email SIG: Status 05-Mar-2006 -- email 4.0a2 released 29-Apr-2005 -- email 2.5.6 released 04-Oct-2004 -- email 3.0a0 released 13-May-2004 -- email 2.5.5 released 09-May-2004 -- new FeedParser for email 3.0 27-Aug-2003 -- SIG created
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