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• Python Success Stories

  ...constants that describe the columns in the database. This way we can add new tables to the overall API quickly and simply without having to worry about implementation details for any specific table. The API also uses meta-data to automatically validate and convert values passed to the database. This is done by a "normalizer" function that converts the Python data types being passed through the API into valid SQL values. The function also verifies types and formats that are not necessa...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...constants into a single constant. SF bug #513866: Float/long comparison anomaly. Prior to 2.4b1, when an integer was compared to a float, the integer was coerced to a float. That could yield spurious overflow errors (if the integer was very large), and to anomalies such as long(1e200)+1 == 1e200 == long(1e200)-1. Coercion to float is no longer performed, and cases like long(1e200)-1 < 1e200, long(1e200)+1 > 1e200 and (1 << 20000) > 1e200 are computed correctly now. Extension...

• Python Success Stories

  ...constant feedback through the audio device about their current location on the map by associating sounds with surface types. Our next concern was whether Python could retrieve the information from the data structure fast enough to provide responsive feedback to our end user. Python was however able to execute these operations smoothly and enabled us to give immediate aural feedback about the surface type. Watching the user's cursor on the screen we saw that upon entering the ocean area, the prog...

• Notes

  ...constants with a leading minus sign would come out with the wrong sign. ("Unsigned" hex/oct constants are those with a face value in the range sys.maxint+1 through sys.maxint*2+1, inclusive; these have always been interpreted as negative numbers through sign folding.) E.g. 0xffffffff is -1, and -(0xffffffff) is 1, but -0xffffffff would come out as -4294967295. This was the case in Python 2.2 through 2.2.2 and 2.3a1, and in Python 2.4 it will once again have that value, but according t...

• Notes

  ...constants into a single constant. SF bug #513866: Float/long comparison anomaly. Prior to 2.4b1, when an integer was compared to a float, the integer was coerced to a float. That could yield spurious overflow errors (if the integer was very large), and to anomalies such as long(1e200)+1 == 1e200 == long(1e200)-1. Coercion to float is no longer performed, and cases like long(1e200)-1 < 1e200, long(1e200)+1 > 1e200 and (1 << 20000) > 1e200 are computed correctly now. Extension...

• Notes

  ...constant. A warning will be issued if a global statement for a variable follows a use or assignment of that variable. Standard library unittest.py, a unit testing framework by Steve Purcell (PyUNIT, inspired by JUnit), is now part of the standard library. You now have a choice of two testing frameworks: unittest requires you to write testcases as separate code, doctest gathers them from docstrings. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. A new module Tix was added, which wra...

• Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-08-14

  ...constantly reinventing the wheel. He feels that Python's core development community is great, but we need to open it up a little bit more to get more involvement and try to rally the community regarding large-scale development. S. Deibel noted that some people strongly want python.org to showcase "best of breed" projects, and others want python.org to avoid favoring specific projects. M. von Löwis suggested that we get the web framework authors interested in python.org (offer hosting,...

• 2013-03-29 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...Constantly working on ledger items and payment instructions for KBK. Working on the budget to make sure it is as accurate as possible. This includes misc costs, F&B, AV, hotel, commissions, financial aid, etc. Collecting all final bills and making sure they are correct before they are placed in the ledger for payment. PyCon Catering Finalized PyCon 2013 catering. PyCon Contract Negotiations Nothing to report for February & March PyCon Electrical Finalized the electrical...

• What's new in Python 2.3

  ...constants that appear unsigned but are in fact negative, left shifts that can lose bits or change the sign, and certain conversions to hex or octal. Tim Peters rewrote his list.sort() implementation - this one is a "stable sort" (equal inputs appear in the same order in the output) and faster than before. Tim Peters also changed long int multiplication to use the Karatsuba algorithm, based on a patch by Christopher A. Craig. This speeds up multiplication of very long ints.

• Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

  ...constant availability and many hundreds of hours of effort per year. The other officers and directors are unpaid volunteers. Currently, we have officers and board members in the US, Canada and Germany. The board of directors meets monthly, via IRC, and the PSF members meet once a year in person at the North American PyCon conference. Members that cannot be present in person at the annual meeting can vote by ballot submitted ahead of time or by proxy (assigning their vote to someone they trust). ...

• Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

  ...constant availability and many hundreds of hours of effort per year. The other officers and directors are unpaid volunteers. Currently, we have officers and board members in the US, Canada and Germany. The board of directors meets monthly, via IRC, and the PSF members meet once a year in person at the North American PyCon conference. Members that cannot be present in person at the annual meeting can vote by ballot submitted ahead of time or by proxy (assigning their vote to someone they trust). ...

• Parade of the PEPs

  ...constants? why not allow ranges? In addition, it proposes many different alternatives without picking one. The first alternative proposed by the PEP, however, doesn't add any new syntax but simply proposes that the parser recognizes a certain common pattern and generates better code for it. I'm all for that, provided it can be shown that the generated code is either significantly faster, significantly smaller, or both. This project would probably a lot easier after the compiler refa...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...constants exist on the platform. Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module. Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error. Library The methods is_in_tuple(), is_vararg(), and is_keywordarg() of symtable.Symbol have been removed. Patch #3133: http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler did not work on windows. a new urllib package was created. It consists of code from urllib, urllib2, urlparse, and robotparser. The old modules have all been removed. The new package has five submodu...

• 2013-02-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...Constantly working on ledger items and payment instructions for KBK. 8.4   PyCon Catering Nothing to report for Jan 8.5   PyCon Contract Negotiations working on getting additional rooms at the Marriott for the Financial Aid group. the Avatar hotel no longer has a shuttle so I am working on taxi vouchers for our attendees to use to and from the convention center. 8.6   PyCon Electrical Nothing to report for Jan 8.7   PyCon...

• 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...constant for the conference in order to keep the knowledge bank and distribute it to next committees. Laura Creighton used to run this committee but she is stepping down this year. We are meeting about it at 6:30pm. I have joined the group as an advisor. Ewa also reported on other event activities for the month. Please see the following report: 6.8.1   PyCon AV Management Nothing to Report for June 2012 6.8.2   PyCon Budgeting I have finished and finalized t...

• PSF Board Resolutions

  ...constant stream of blog posts covering PSF and Python community topics. Compensation will initially be set at USD 50 per blog post, with an expected rate averaging 2 posts per week. See https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2014-June/025493.html for details Approved, 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 7 January 2015. RESOLVED, that the PSF grants up to $800 to Pieter Kubben to pay the 2015 submission fees for up to 2 papers for the open-access journal Surgical Neurology International pending paper...

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