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• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...ifferent arguments to the base class __new__, and modify the resulting object after it's been created (for example to initialize essential instance variables). __new__ must return an object. There's nothing that requires that it return a new object that is an instance of its class argument, although that is the convention. If you return an existing object of your class or a subclass, the constructor call will still call its __init__ method. If you return an object of a different clas...

• PSF Bylaws Version 1

  ...if they choose, define several different grades of sponsor member, each with a different annual fee and receiving different benefits as determined by the Directors. Section 4.4. Admission of Members. A person or organization desiring membership must complete a written membership application in such form as shall be adopted by the Board of Directors from time to time. The nomination, if applicable, and the content of the membership application must be included in a notice to the nominated members...

• Notes

  ...ifying the swig executable to use, and --swig-opts to specify options to pass to swig. --swig-opts="-c++" is the new way to spell --swig-cpp. Patch 983206: distutils now obeys environment variable LDSHARED, if it is set. Added Peter Astrand's subprocess.py module. See PEP 324 for details. time.strptime() now properly escapes timezones and all other locale-specific strings for regex-specific symbols. Was breaking under Japanese Windows when the timezone was specified as "Tokyo (s...

• Release – Python 3.11.0b5

  Version: None

  Released: July 26, 2022

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.11 Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b5 is the last of the five planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to …

• Release – Python 3.11.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 8, 2022

  This is the first release candidate of Python 3.11 This release, 3.11.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The second candidate and the last planned release …

• Release – Python 3.11.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 12, 2022

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.11 This release, 3.11.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.11.0 on 2022-10-24. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. …

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

  ...ift Cards RESOLVED, that the board approves purchase of $750 of Amazon gift cards to thank some of the volunteers who assisted with PyCon. Approved 6-0-0. 7   Officer Compensation WHEREAS some of the offices held by officers of the PSF require substantial time commitment, on the order of hundreds of hours per year, WHEREAS the ongoing and timely performance of these officers is critical to the continued existence of the PSF, be it RESOLVED, that effective July 1st, 2006, the f...

• Donation Drive

  ...if ( document.addEventListener ) { DOMContentLoaded = function() { document.removeEventListener( "DOMContentLoaded", DOMContentLoaded, false ); onReady(); }; } else if ( document.attachEvent ) { DOMContentLoaded = function() { // Make sure body exists, at least, in case IE gets a little overzealous if ( document.readyState === "complete" ) { document.detachEvent( "onreadystatechange", DOMContentLoaded ); onReady(); ...

• Python 2.0

  ...ifferences between Python 2.0 and Python 1.5.2, please see the article What's New in Python 2.0 by A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka. What's new in 2.0 (since release candidate 1)? Standard library The copy_reg module was modified to clarify its intended use: to register pickle support for extension types, not for classes. pickle() will raise a TypeError if it is passed a class. Fixed a bug in gettext's "normalize and expand" code that prevented it from finding an existing...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...ified as a keyword arg in the class statement, which can now use the full syntax of a parameter list. Also, the metaclass can implement a __prepare__ function which will be called to create the dictionary for the new class namespace. The long-deprecated argument "pend" of PyFloat_FromString() has been removed. The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows customizing the output of dir() i...

• Comparing Option-Parsing Libraries

  ...If you actually want to run any of these without modifying them, you'll need to get the Ripoff source code from its CVS repository. This is because I wanted 1) a realistic --version option (which uses ripoff.__version__), and 2) realistic help for the -d/--device option (which relies on the ripoff.cdrom extension module, specifically the get_default_device() function). The real purpose here, though, is to examine the code, not to run it.

• Python Success Stories

  ...ificantly slower than more mainstream, statically typed languages. However, this result is not as significant as it is sometimes made out to be, for two reasons. Firstly, many applications are rarely CPU bound, and simply do not need the intensive performance that the fastest languages can give you. For interactive desktop applications, the speed difference between C# and IronPython would rarely be discernible by the user. Some programs do require significant CPU performance, either because they...

• Notes

  ...If the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable exists, same as before: silently accept the first case-insensitive match of any kind; raise ImportError if none found. Else search sys.path for the first case-sensitive match; raise ImportError if none found. The same rules have been implented on other platforms with case- insensitive but case-preserving filesystems too (including Cygwin, and several flavors of Macintosh operating systems). winsound module: Under Win9x, winsound.Beep() now attempts to...

• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005)

  ...if we should we try to find volunteers to help Tim, or do we just wait until he's done it all by himself? S. Holden replied that we want to recruit as many of the existing pydotorg-maintainers as possible, and he plans to write some documentation to help newbie members of the team. A. Kuchling noted that the pydotorg list is seeing little action lately. M. von Löwis asked if we can identify fixed-deadline tasks for which we need volunteers, so they can drop out when they are done with specific...

• About

  ...If you find something that Python cannot do, or if you need the performance advantage of low-level code, you can write extension modules in C or C++, or wrap existing code with SWIG or Boost.Python. Wrapped modules appear to your program exactly like native Python code. That's language integration made easy. You can also go the opposite route and embed Python in your own application, providing your users with a language they'll enjoy using. Python runs everywhere Python is available for all ma...

• Release – Python 3.13.0b2

  Version: None

  Released: June 5, 2024

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b2, is the second of four beta release previews of 3.13. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their …

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• Python Success Stories

  ...ife. In this age of small IC devices boasting TCP/IP stacks and wireless connectivity, one no longer needs a standalone PC to harness the Web. VAHNZ Controls developed its eBukal[1] remote alarm device to leverage their knowledge of microcontroller interfacing and Internet protocols, creating an innovative solution for the field of building automation. Remote Event Dial-up Internet Notification The idea grew out of one client's need to monitor the temperature of an office building's air condit...

• Python Success Stories

  ...ifferent purposes, the information already present in the code. For example, the help texts present in the tool are reused to produce the reference section in the written documentation. The object model of the configuration tool is visible to the user, displayed in a "Pilot-Window". The Pilot lets the user manipulate object data, and links between objects, by clicking on the respective item (see Figure A). This click opens an object editor for modification of attributes. The object ...

• Python Distutils-SIG: Proposed User Interface

  ...if things go wrong!) So, here is a list of commands to be supported by setup.py (through cooperation with the distutils modules) and the actions corresponding to each command: make_blib If it doesn't already exist, create a mockup installation tree, blib/, under the current directory. blib/ would contain directories for pure Python code (non-architecture-specific, or shared) and compiled code (architecture-specific), modelle...

• Retired SIGS

  ...existed in the past but are no longer active. Their archives and home pages are retained. A retired SIG can be revived, using the same criteria as for creating a new SIG. Name Coordinator Description Info   catalog-sig A.M. Kuchling The Python software catalog archive March 2013 compiler-sig Jeremy Hylton Compiling and parsing Python Type checking, code generation archive May 2001 do-sig David Arnold Distributed Object Technologies archive August 2002 getopt-sig Greg Ward Ar...

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