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• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, November 8, 2005

  ...OSCON M. von Lรถwis was unable to attend but sent a report by email. Summary: M. von Lรถwis represented the PSF at the Open Source Foundations Meeting at EuroOSCON, on Oct. 21. The foundations spoke about their day-to-day experience, organizational structures, long-term goals etc. This was the second such summit (the first one was this July at OSCON). There was a formal agenda with points to discuss, but the introduction of participants took all day, so the interesting questions were discusse...

• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, February 14, 2006

  ...ost to the PSF blog was suggested, and discussion was deferred to email. 3.4   New in January The following action items originated with the January 2006 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes: Section 3.4, item 5, New in December (PSF Member Meeting): [M. von Löwis] We should set a deadline for closing the absentee ballot. Status: done. The absentee ballot was closed on February 14. 4   Financials The initial ruling period on the PSF's 501(c)(3) status h...

• Python Success Stories

  ...osts. At the most abstract level, ERP5 is based on five generic classes used by all modules: Resource, Node, Movement, Item, and Path. This model, known as the ERP5 Universal Business Model, makes it possible to reuse code by abstracting away from the specific domain and encapsulating the generic relationships and actions common to many business processes. As a result, modules as different as Payroll and Invoice can share almost of all their code. In this example of the ERP5 Universal Busine...

• Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-03-13

  ...oss. M. von Lรถwis: "a break even is fine with me". T. Peters stated the PyCon goal of "low-cost community conference", which had general agreement. S. Holden noted that on a budget of $100,000 the profit or loss could be $20,000 -- we can't plan more closely than that. D. Ascher: "I don't think we should make a profit, but we should be wary of running big losses"; there was general agreement with this statement. D. Ascher observed that the move out of DC was bec...

• Python Success Stories

  ...osts down, we chose to base Wing on as many open source modules as we could find. The GUI was written with GTK, which is accessed from Python via PyGTK. The source editor is based on Scintilla, an open source code editor component. And printing is implemented via py2pdf from ReportLab. Initial development was on Linux but we planned to support at least Windows and eventually other Unix-like operating systems. For this reason, we avoided platform-specific implementations and chose cross-platform ...

• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006

  ...oss. Reduce the contract numbers to ~200-250, so that the total costs are cheaper and we actually meet our numbers. Keep the numbers the same, and try to do better on publicity to reduce the loss. I made various mistakes -- most notably a delay in getting the schedule posted -- but it's not clear if that delay is responsible for the poor registration. Other suggestions? S. Deibel asked A. Kuchling about the status of the funding we approved for helping people to attend PyCon: "Have you h...

• Python Success Stories

  ...ost out to IronPython, a reimplementation of Python as a .NET language, which runs directly on the Common Language Runtime (CLR). At the time, IronPython felt like a somewhat risky proposition. At v0.7 it was still relatively young, and had an extremely low profile. The acquisition of IronPython by Microsoft also raised uncertainties about the project's future, should it be deemed contrary to Microsoft's strategy. However, our initial experiments with IronPython went well. It turned out to be tr...

• Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

  ...os_8x3 sundirectory has been renamed to dos-8x3. The following tables gives all renamed directories: Old NameNew Name tkinterlib-tk stdwinlib-stdwin sharedmoduleslib-dynload dos_8x3dos-8x3 aix3plat-aix3 aix4plat-aix4 freebsd2plat-freebsd2 genericplat-generic irix5plat-irix5 irix6plat-irix6 linux1plat-linux1 linux2plat-linux2 next3plat-next3 sunos4plat-sunos4 sunos5plat-sunos5 winplat-win testtest Note that the test subdirector...

• Notes

  ...OS, thanks to Dietmar Schwertberger! See RISCOS/README for more information -- it seems that because of the bizarre filename conventions on RISCOS, no port to that platform is easy. Note that the new variable os.endsep is silently supported in order to make life easier on this platform, but we don't advertise it because it's not worth for most folks to care about RISCOS portability. What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 2? Core language, builtins, and interpreter Scopes nest. If a name is used i...

• Notes

  ...os.path.lexists(), which returns True for broken symlinks, unlike os.path.exists(). the random module now uses os.urandom() for seeding if it is available. Added a new generator based on os.urandom(). difflib and diff.py can now generate HTML. bdist_rpm now includes version and release in the BuildRoot, and replaces - by _ in version and release. distutils build/build_scripts now has an -e option to specify the path to the Python interpreter for installed scripts. PEP 292 classes Template and Sa...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...os Demos of the socketserver module now work with Python 3. What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 2 Release date: 05-Nov-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #4211: The __path__ attribute of frozen packages is now a list instead of a string as required by PEP 302. Issue #3727: Fixed poplib. Issue #3714: Fixed nntplib by using bytes where appropriate. Issue #1210: Fixed imaplib and its documentation. Issue #4233: Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close() method on file objects with closefd...

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