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  • 2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements collecting agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. Going through all of the backlog from PyCon. Documentation Upkeep and Wiki working on helping Van with the 2013 PSF Budget Other Conferences Please see the Event Coordinator Report for the detail. 5.3   Outreach and Education Report Awards none Discussions We receiv...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...reads the DocBook DSSSL stylesheets and user's local DSSSL stylesheets, if any. The DSSSL is executed upon the user's SGML source text to write a final document to load into the user's word processor. For this project, we wanted to automatically generate files readable by Microsoft Word, so OpenJade was set to emit Microsoft Word Rich Text files. OpenJade operates as a command-line application, and thus is simple to control from Python code with the Popen4 Python standard library call. Post-Pr...

  • 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...reading some books on nonprofits, and learning a lot. Partly I'm seeing things I already knew, formalized and fleshed out. But there's a lot that's new to me there as well.) The need for PyCon help is widely acknowledged, and is growing more urgent. Should I abandon the Executive Director proposal and concentrate on a PyCon staffer? Even if I don't believe it's the right solution? Would it be better if the ED or PyCon staffer is also the conference chair? Would concentrating the authority ma...

  • 2008-09-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read it." Our future is heavily tied to the future of Python. Therefore, we would really appreciate the privilege of supporting Python. Brian Cole will represent OpenEye Scientific Software, whose membership will date from October 1. RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors recommends OpenEye Scientific Software to the membership, as a future sponsor member of the PSF. Approved 6-0-0. D. Goodger will inform OpenEye Scientific Software of their pending sponsor membership status, and will req...

  • 2013-11-01 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements: I continue to collect agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. PSF Budget: I continue to fill in the budget based on resolutions passed by the board. PSF Infrastructure: The committee is working on getting votedotpydotorg ready for use by PSF workgroups. The committee has also managed and resolved an outage in the PyPI and pythonhosted.org servers. Bylaws: Van i...

  • Built-in Package Support in Python 1.5

    ...read.py wavwrite.py aiffread.py aiffwrite.py auread.py auwrite.py ... Effects/ Subpackage for sound effects __init__.py echo.py surround.py reverse.py ... Filters/ Subpackage for filters __init__.py equalizer.py vocoder.py karaoke.py dolby.py ... Users of the package can import individual modules from the package, f...

  • 2007-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ready to sign within a week or two. Highlights of the requested changes were presented and discussed. D. Goodger: "I feel very comfortable working with CTE." RESOLVED, that Kurt Kaiser and David Goodger are authorized to obligate the PSF under the previously emailed contract for PyCon 2008 to be held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois. The contract may be changed before signing but any changes will be reported to the PSF board and may not increase the financial ...

  • 2013-06-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. I have started to send out the sponsors letters to PSF sponsor members. I am in the process of finishing that up and sending second notices. So far we have $76k in interest. I will now start to work on updating CiviCRM with updated PSF sponsor records/info. Contributor Agreements collecting agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. Going through all of the backlog from PyCon. D...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...read-only proxy object. The restriction on attribute assignment is lifted for new-style user-defined classes, including subclasses of built-in types; however even those have a read-only __dict__ proxy, and you must use attribute assignment to replace or add a method of a new-style class. Example session: >>> list.append <method 'append' of 'list' objects> >>> list.append = list.append Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...read-only proxy object. The restriction on attribute assignment is lifted for new-style user-defined classes, including subclasses of built-in types; however even those have a read-only __dict__ proxy, and you must use attribute assignment to replace or add a method of a new-style class. Example session: >>> list.append <method 'append' of 'list' objects> >>> list.append = list.append Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...read-only proxy object. The restriction on attribute assignment is lifted for new-style user-defined classes, including subclasses of built-in types; however even those have a read-only __dict__ proxy, and you must use attribute assignment to replace or add a method of a new-style class. Example session: >>> list.append <method 'append' of 'list' objects> >>> list.append = list.append Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ...

  • Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

    ...read-only proxy object. The restriction on attribute assignment is lifted for new-style user-defined classes, including subclasses of built-in types; however even those have a read-only __dict__ proxy, and you must use attribute assignment to replace or add a method of a new-style class. Example session: >>> list.append <method 'append' of 'list' objects> >>> list.append = list.append Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: can't set att...

  • PSF Bylaws

    ...read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings, and if any member or proxyholder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such vote or other action shall be maintained by the corporation. Section 3.2. Annual Meeting. A meeting of the members shall be held annually at such time as the Board of Directors may determine (which shall be, in the case of the first annual meeting, not more than thirteen (13) m...

  • Notes

    ...readlines was added. This exports a single factory function, xreadlines(). The intention is that this code is the absolutely fastest way to iterate over all lines in an open file(-like) object: import xreadlines for line in xreadlines.xreadlines(file): ...do something to line... This is equivalent to the previous the speed record holder using file.readlines(sizehint). Note that if file is a real file object (as opposed to a file-like object), this is equivalent: for line in file.xreadl...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...reading system with the first implementation of generators and continuations. You can learn more about Stackless from the project's history page and this IBM developerWorks interview with Christian by David Mertz. Christian also co-founded PyPy, an implementation of Python in Python, with Armin Rigo and Holger Krekel. Christian worked on PyPy full time for a period, using EU funding. Later, he worked on the JIT compiler Psyco with Raymond Hettinger to create Psyco V2. Most recently, he has been ...

  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read that proposal and I didn't see an explicit mention that they would be slapping a Python logo on the packaging." A. Kuchling: "I'm still not happy with the level of detail." Others agreed. S. Holden: "I think we need an explicit description of who will benefit from these funds if they are paid as salary or fees." A. Kuchling: "Personally I'm sympathetic to the problem area -- making materials for education with Python is useful and important -- but I just feel ...

  • 2009-09-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read "The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers." Approved, 7-0-0. [98] D. Goodger will update the web page: http://www.python.org/psf/mission/ to reflect the PSF Mission Statement change. 10   PSF Community Award Nominations for 2009 - 3rd Quarter The Board postponed this agenda item until next mo...

  • 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...reading the prospectus) it brings together a handful of key graphics package communities." S. Holden: "It seemed to me he [S. Michiels] made a reasonable case that Python is important in that area. How about you?" T. Peters: "Seems that Python is used in these apps in much the same way it's used in SciPy apps. That is, Python isn't the goal, it's part of the means. That's fine." RESOLVED, that the PSF support GNOME Foundation for Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 with a grant...

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements: I continue to collect agreements coming through EchoSign and marking them in bug tracker. PSF Infrastructure: the new VM host is up, spec?ed out PyPI on public cloud, worked on static fallback for PyPI, wrapping up new PyPI infrastructure, looking to deploy testpypi.python.org on new infr. ASAP, fixing PyPI for clean deploy Bylaws: No progress since my last report, but Marc-Andre has come...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...reads taken up on edu-sig. Dr. Atanas Radenski has written a paper entitled "Python First": A Lab-Based Digital Introduction to Computer Science which describes a positive experience when switching from Java to Python as a language for CS1 courses. Dr. Michael H. Goldwasser and Dr. David Letscher have written a paper entitled Teaching an Object-Oriented CS1 - with Python which has been published in the Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer S...

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