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...of ABC that would appeal to Unix/C hackers. I chose Python as a working title for the project, being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus). Today, I can safely say that Python has changed my life. I have moved to a different continent. I spend my working days developing large systems in Python, when I'm not hacking on Python or answering Python-related email. There are Python T-shirts, workshops, mailing lists, a newsgroup, and now a book. ...
...big collection of aliases. A careful selection of aliases for frequently used commands could save you a lot of keystrokes! GitIgnore and https://github.com/github/gitignore are collections of .gitignore files for all kinds of IDEs and programming languages. Python included! pre-commit (repositories) is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. The framework is written in Python and has a lot of plugins for many programming languages. Advanced topics Staging ar...
...of the working repository is around 180 MB on disk. The amount of data transferred over the network when cloning is estimated to be around 80 MB. Other repositories There are a number of other projects hosted in svn.python.org's "projects" repository. The "peps" directory will be converted along with the main Python one. Richard Tew has indicated that he'd like the Stackless repository to also be converted. What other projects in the svn.python.org repository should be converted? There's n...
...of the direction of further votes. PyCon Ireland 2011 Funding ========================== **RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a grant of US$1500 to the organizers of the PyCon Ireland 2011 conference. Approved, 9-0-1. PyCon DE 2011 Funding ===================== **RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a grant of US$1500 to the organizers of the PyCon DE 2011 conference. Approved, 10-0-1. Official Resignation of James Tauber ==================================== The board...
...of the 3D game-playing library. Release beta versions of the implementation and part one of the tutorial. Release alpha versions of part two of the tutorial. Write early draft version of part three of the tutorial, "Programming and the world-wide-web." 4. Fourth half-year period Release final version of the programming environment, the 3D game-playing library, and of all three parts of the tutorial. Evaluate the use of Python for teaching purposes. Evaluate the effectiveness of th...
...big change will happen when most computer users have the knowledge and power to create and modify software. The open source movement claims that peer review of software by thousands can greatly improve the quality of software. The success of Linux shows the value of this claim. We believe that the next step, having millions (or billions) of programmers, will cause a change of a different quality--the abundant availability of personalized software. The tools needed for this new way to loo...
...of the Python Software Foundation. I have filed a DMCA request regarding the use of our copyrighted logo at phyton.weebly.com (also available at pmarket.tk), but I am also writing to note the violation of our trademarks on the associated sites. Both the logo (as a trademark) and the term "Phyton" are identical to or confusingly similar to the marks of the Python Software Foundation as shown at http://www.python.org/community/logos/. Phyton marketing is not associated with the Python So...