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  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any can order extra brochure copies at very reasonable prices. The difference is that companies can order extra copies for educational institutions of their choice or of the PSF's choice. The bill will be paid by the company and the boxes will go straight to the institution. 6.4.3   Please Help find Sponsors If you know possible sponsors or are interested in sponsoring the brochure yourself, please check the available sponsorship plans we have available: http://brochure.getpy...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction This article shows how I integrated Python, COM, DocBook, OpenJade, and Word together to create a documentation tool for BEACON, a visual programming environment. This documentation tool was used for code reviews in the software development methodology at my company, and led to significant (>$1M) in cost savings. Before starting this project, I had no prior experience using SGML, XML, or other document markup languages. It was only when I was perilously ...

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...any digits, rather than raising OverflowError. (New in 2.3a2: issues a FutureWarning when sign-folding an unsigned hex or octal literal.) isinstance(), super() - Now support instances whose type() is not equal to their __class__. (New in 2.3a2.) As of 2.3b1, super() no longer ignores data descriptors, except for __class__. raw_input() - can now return Unicode objects (if sys.stdin is Unicode-capable). (New in 2.3a2.) slice() and buffer() - these are now types rather than functions. The cons...

  • 2008-10-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any, we don't contribute much back to the community, several of our developers do so in their spare time. Mark Dufour will represent KNMP. RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors recommends KNMP to the membership, as a future sponsor member of the PSF. Approved 7-0-1. S. Holden will inform KNMP of their pending sponsor membership status, and will request a logo for the web site. K. Kaiser will invoice KNMP for their sponsor membership fee. 7   Accounts Receivable S. Holden not...

  • 2008-11-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes (Draft)

    ...any, to take. Approved 7-0-0. J. Tauber will update the PSF committees page with Trademarks Committee information. 6   PyCon S. Holden: "I spent a day looking at sites in Atlanta and have reported back to David." D. Goodger will forward the report to the pycon-select mailing list. 7   Support Request from ZPUGDC Plone Conference The PSF received a request for support for the Plone Conference, held in October, after the fact. The timing and the w...

  • 2010-12-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any idea on that?" Noller: "FA (Financial Aid) is accepting applications." Holden: "Fine, thanks." 5.8   Sprint Committee J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, reported continued activities from last month, by saying he was "shifting gears to accept applications for funding from all python projects." Board Discussion: S. Holden: "Glad sprints have widened their scope and look forward to seeing the new documentation." 5.9  ...

  • Python 2.0

    ...any changes made to the linuxaudiodev module and its test suite; as a result, a short, unexpected audio sample should now play when the regression test is run. Note that this module is named poorly, because it should work correctly on any platform that supports the Open Sound System (OSS). The module now raises exceptions when errors occur instead of crashing. It also defines the AFMT_A_LAW format (logarithmic A-law audio) and defines a getptr() method that ca...

  • What's New In Python 3.0

    ...any case. Issue #3145: help("modules whatever") failed when trying to load the source code of every single module of the standard library, including invalid files used in the test suite. The gettext library now consistently uses Unicode strings for message ids and message strings, and ugettext() and the like don't exist anymore. The traceback module has been expanded to handle chained exceptions. C API Issue #3247: the function Py_FindMethod was removed. Modern types should use the...

  • 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any contract proposal. S. Holden will reply to the PR contract offer. S. Holden will inform Van Lindberg that the Board supports his efforts to find low-cost PR for the PSF. 6   PyCon UK Sponsorship The PyCon UK organizers sent a request for a $3500 grant. RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $3500 grant as sponsorship funding for PyCon UK 2008. Approved 7-0-0. S. Holden will inform PyCon UK of their sponsorship grant, and request an invoice. R. Hettinger will propose a blanket ...

  • 2009-10-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any high-profile contributors who haven't signed agreements. Go after people to improve our coverage. (Transferred from #13, Dec 2006 §4.) Status: active. [58] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 5, New Memory for PSF Computer: M. von Löwis will purchase new memory to replace faulty memory on a PSF computer. Status: pending. [65] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 13, Board Email List and Repository Access to PSF Administrator: S. Holden will initiate further discussion via email about addi...

  • 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any issues surrounding his project, M. A. Lemburg reported no issues except that he just does not have enough time to devote to his Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront project. Lemburg also reported on future plans for the project: "Check to see whether a trigger based approach to S3 syncing wouldn't be easier to implement right from the start." 5.7   PyCon US Website D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reported on new activities for the month: Schedule now liv...

  • 2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any high-profile contributors who haven't signed agreements. Go after people to improve our coverage. (Transferred from #13, Dec 2006 §4.) Status: active. [58] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 5, New Memory for PSF Computer: M. von Löwis will purchase new memory to replace faulty memory on a PSF computer. Status: pending. [65] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 13, Board Email List and Repository Access to PSF Administrator: S. Holden will initiate further discussion via email about addi...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...any vote regarding a contract with an affiliated company, the IC gets at least one quote from a non-affiliated company, in case the expected costs exceed USD 1000 for one-time or USD 1000 per year for periodically billed expenditures. the IC reports a summary of the decision process to the board for each such decision. Approved, 10-0-0, May 2010. RESOLVED, that the PSF offers a USD 750 grant to the organizers of the PyCon Ukraine conference to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, later this year, for f...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...anyway. It's hard to blame anyone, on seeing this Python feature, for initially reacting as though they had unexpectedly stepped in a steaming pile of dinosaur dung. That's certainly how I felt. I skimmed through the rest of the language description without much interest. I didn't see much else to recommend Python, except maybe that the syntax seemed rather cleaner than Perl's and the facilities for doing basic GUI elements like buttons and menus looked fairly good. I put the book back on the sh...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...any at PyCons over the years. Whether helping a new contributor understand a code snippet at a sprint or encouraging a new speaker with his confidence in them, Brett shares his positive character with us. Everyone should be fortunate enough to have Brett on their team. He gives selflessly and impacts Pythonistas and the Python language in so many ways. Jessica McKellar (2015) Jessica McKellar has served in many distinguished roles within the Python community: Director, Python Software Foundati...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.1

    ...anYork/RPMS/i386/"> ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/DanYork/RPMS/i386/ </a> <p> and a simple HOWTO for installing them is at: <p> <a href="http://www.lodestar2.com/software/howto/python2-sme-howto.html"> http://www.lodestar2.com/software/howto/python2-sme-howto.html </a> <h3><a name="FAQ"></a>RPM Frequently Asked Questions</h3> <ul> <li />Q) <b>What are the benefits of building my own ...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...any times as incompatible extensions merely proves this point.) General languages, on the other hand, usually aren't as good in any particular domain. For example, it is much harder to write a program in a general language to format a paragraph of text than it is in HTML. However, general languages make up for this through their Turing-completeness, which makes it possible to solve any problem that might come up (assuming availability of sufficient resources). General languages are theref...

  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    Towards a Standard Parser Generator Towards a Standard Parser Generator Martin v. Löwis Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Informatik loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de Abstract Developing parsers for "little" languages is a common task for many software developers. People have frequently requested inclusion of a specific parser generator framework into the Python library. In this paper, we compare several Python parser generators, using the XPath langua...

  • Parade of the PEPs

    ...any unresolved issues, and many aren't even mentioned in the PEP. I think it should be rejected; maybe if there is interest in the future a task force or SIG could be created to explore this subject in more depth. PEP 237 - Unifying Long Integers and Integers - Zadka, van Rossum This one is already accepted, and we should implement phase B1 in Python 2.3. Need I say more? PEP 239 - Adding a Rational Type to Python - Zadka Like 228, I think this is not a realistic PEP, it's ...

  • Work Groups of the Python Software Foundation

    ...any, to take. Inactive Committees & Work Groups Scientific Python Work Group Formed:April 2015 Mailing List:scientific at python.org This working group shall draw on the expertise of both the PSF and NumFOCUS, and on the broader scientific Python community in general, to select the best use of its budgeted funds to advance the scope, breadth, and utility of Python for scientific work. In essence, the purpose of the group is to grant funds allocated to it by PSF and/or NumFOCUS t...

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