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  • Python Success Stories

    ...address a tricky real-world problem (web-to-desktop integration) atop open standards (HTTP and XMPP) and documented interfaces (MS Office COM bindings). Below is a high-level diagram of the ProjectPipe distributed architecture: High-level view of the ProjectPipe distributed Architecture Zoom in In addition to addressing the web-to-desktop integration challenge, this bot-based architecture had three interesting side-effects: It allowed us to interact in real-time with these subsystems. We cou...

  • Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

    ...addition to this, there are N string allocation operations, but for sufficiently large N, the term containing N**2 will take over. Indeed, for a list that's 8 times as long (2048 items), these functions all take much more than 8 times as long; close to 16 times as long, in fact. I didn't dare try a list of 64 times as long. There's a general technique to avoid quadratic behavior in algorithms like this. I coded it as follows for strings of exactly 256 items: def f5(list): ...

  • Python Software Foundation Members Meeting Minutes 2006-02-24

    Python Software Foundation Members Meeting Minutes 2006-02-24 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 2006 Members Meeting February 24, 2006 The members of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") held its annual meeting on February 24, 2006 at 17:10 CST (23:10 UTC) in the Marriott Quorum Hotel in Dallas/Addison, Texas, USA (PyCon TX 2006). Stephan Deibel presided over the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1   Attendance 2 &nbs...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-06-12

    ...Add "swag for events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, Section 8, Trademark Policy: S. Deibel to work on the PSF trademark policy, and discuss with Milind Shaw. The trademark policy was reviewed by members, the minimal feedback was incorporated, and sent to our lawyer. No word back yet, expected soon. Status: follow-up required. Originally from 14 February 2005, Section 4, Financials: K. Kaiser will ping the sponsor members who h...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-07-10

    ...Add "swag for events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from 25 February 2006, Section 4, Other Business: M. von Löwis will update the list of email addresses of PSF members. Status: done. The list has been updated. D. Goodger will update & confirm email & snail mail addresses when he receives the PSF records, with the help of M. von Löwis. Originally from March 2006, Section 4, Grants Committee: M. von Löwis agreed to draft a report on the P...

  • Work Groups of the Python Software Foundation

    ...additionally Carl Trachte, Doug Napoleone, David Goodger, Van Lindberg. Co-chairs shall, by joint agreement, have the power to add or remove committee members, with the current membership roster to be approved by the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors at least once per year Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 August, 2013. Establishing resolution: RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee designated the "Trademarks Committee" (TMC) be formed with David Goodger, Marc-Andre Le...

  • Notes

    ...Added countcallers arg to trace.Trace class (--trackcalls command line arg when run from the command prompt). Fixed a caching bug in platform.platform() where the argument of 'terse' was not taken into consideration when caching value. Added two new command-line arguments for profile (output file and default sort). Added global runctx function to profile module Add hlist missing entryconfigure and entrycget methods. The ptcp154 codec was added for Kazakh character set support. Support non-anonym...

  • Python 1.6

    ...addition of Unicode support. We've added a new fundamental datatype, the Unicode string, a new build-in function unicode(), an numerous C APIs to deal with Unicode and encodings. See the file Misc/unicode.txt for details, or http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt. Two other big changes, related to the Unicode support, are the addition of string methods and a new regular expression engine: String methods mean that you can now say s.lower() etc. instead of ...

  • Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-04-10

    ...Add "swag for events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, Section 8, Trademark Policy: S. Deibel to work on the PSF trademark policy, and discuss with Milind Shaw. Status: carried forward. (Transferred from D. Ascher.) Originally from December 2005, Section 6, PSF Member Meeting: D. Goodger to complete the minutes for the 2005 PSF member meeting. Status: in progress. Originally from 14 February 2005, Section 4, Financials: K. Kaise...

  • 2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...address fully, completely, and with a code base that's actually maintainable." D. Napoleone: "Registration is very hard to get right, especially when everything including the kitchen sink is wanted. We are rather liberal when its comes to things like refunds, and unlike some other conferences, we have add-ons like tutorials which are announced AFTER registration opens." Noller: "Therefore, outsourcing it makes the most sense." S. Holden: "A small concern that it t...

  • The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

    ...add the part on local precedence ordering. David Goodger for help with the formatting in reStructuredText. David Mertz for help with the editing. Joan G. Stark for the pythonic pictures. Finally, Guido van Rossum who enthusiastically added this document to the official Python 2.3 home-page. .-=-. .--. __ .' '. / " ) _ .' '. / .-. \ / .-'\ ( \ / .-. \ / / \ \ / / ^ \ `-` / \ `-' / \ ...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...Added countcallers arg to trace.Trace class (--trackcalls command line arg when run from the command prompt). Fixed a caching bug in platform.platform() where the argument of 'terse' was not taken into consideration when caching value. Added two new command-line arguments for profile (output file and default sort). Added global runctx function to profile module Add hlist missing entryconfigure and entrycget methods. The ptcp154 codec was added for Kazakh character set support. Support non-anonym...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Additional development tools used in the project included gcc, Gnu make, latex, pdflatex, latex2html, emacs/xemacs (before Wing was functional), Visual C++ 6, and cygwin. Results Our work on Wing IDE has been quite a success. We were able to develop faster than we originally expected, and to deliver Wing IDE on Linux, Windows 98 through XP, Mac OS X with XDarwin, Solaris, and FreeBSD without major platform-specific development work. Today, our product is receiving good reviews and is selling w...

  • 2010-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...add that we will soon have a 990 filing. 5   Progress Report The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each board report listed below and a possible board discussion to follow: 5.1   Communication Status D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, reports that a blog about the Google Summer of Code, a blog about Bug Weekend, and a blog about John Pinner's 2010 - 2nd Quarter Communi...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...addition to) downloading upgrades from a vendor, or buying "canned" add-on applications from third parties. This would greatly empower users to improve their life by programming their personal tools to do exactly what they need them to do. The recently popular open source movement [OpenSource] is promising to improve the quality of key software packages through the peer review of thousands, as well as the ability for programmers to "scratch their own itch." (I.e., tweak the software in...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...add, change, augment or hide any console functionality, providing a complete per-user customizable experience. A complete configuration and visual development environment is integrated into the console (including a version control system for Views and an interactive remote Python shell). Visualization and control forms (called Views) can be added, modified and tested in real-time. New view components (Widgets) can dynamically be made available by plugins. Real-time system configuration and in...

  • IDLE and tkinter with Tcl/Tk on macOS

    ...add warnings and include details on how Python links with Tcl/Tk releases 2011-02-20 - updated for 3.2 final 2011-01-31 draft 1 - preliminary info for 3.2rc2 2011-01-14 draft 0

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...addition of Unicode support. We've added a new fundamental datatype, the Unicode string, a new build-in function unicode(), an numerous C APIs to deal with Unicode and encodings. See the file Misc/unicode.txt for details, or http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt. Two other big changes, related to the Unicode support, are the addition of string methods and a new regular expression engine: String methods mean that you can now say s.lower() etc. instead of importing the str...

  • 2008-01-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...addresses. 7   Awards Program S. Holden sent email to the Board with a proposal for a "Python Software Foundation Awards Program". Summary of the proposal and the ensuing email discussion: Not regular awards. Instead, have an ad-hoc scheme, which we publicize to the members. Members make nominations. Award to consist of one or more of: 1. a blog entry; 2. a cash or gift certificate award, not more than $1,000; 3. free registration at PyCon, plus optional contributi...

  • 2008-03-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...add the requirement for a rationale to the sponsor member application form. 9   Awards Program S. Holden posted a description of a PSF awards program to the Board list M. von Löwis noted that somebody should be "in charge" of the program: "keeping track of the list of people being proposed for awards, soliciting proposals from a the membership or wider audience, etc." D. Goodger nominated Steve Holden, who accepted. RESOLVED: that the Foundation institute an...

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