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...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-Processing using Word Automation with PythonCOM The Microsoft Rich Text Format files created by OpenJade are quite attractive in overall appearance. However, they did not conform with man...
...Microsoft Installer (.msi) file. To use this, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file python-2.4.msi to your local machine, then double-click python-2.4.msi to find out if your machine supports MSI. If it doesn't, you'll need to install Microsoft Installer first. Many other packages (such as Word and Office) also include MSI, so you may already have it on your system. If not, you can download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and fo...
...Microsoft Installer (.msi) file. To use this, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file python-2.4.1.msi to your local machine, then double-click python-2.4.1.msi to find out if your machine supports MSI. If it doesn't, you'll need to install Microsoft Installer first. Many other packages (such as Word and Office) also include MSI, so you may already have it on your system. If not, you can download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me an...
...Microsoft Installer (.msi) file. To use this, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file Python-2.4.2.msi to your local machine, then double-click python-2.4.2.msi to find out if your machine supports MSI. If it doesn't, you'll need to install Microsoft Installer first. Many other packages (such as Word and Office) also include MSI, so you may already have it on your system. If not, you can download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me an...
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Released: Nov. 30, 2004
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in …
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Released: March 30, 2005
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.1 (final) on March 30, 2005. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix …
Released: Sept. 27, 2005
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final), a bugfix release, on September 28, 2005. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode …
...Microsoft Installer (.msi) file. To use this, the Windows system must support Microsoft Installer 2.0. Just save the installer file, Python-2.5.msi, to your local machine, then double-click python-2.5.msi to find out if your machine supports MSI. If it doesn't, you'll need to install Microsoft Installer first. Many other packages (such as Word and Office) also include MSI, so you may already have it on your system. If not, you can download it freely from Microsoft for Windows 95, 98 and Me and ...
Released: Sept. 19, 2006
Python 2.5 was released on September 19th 2006. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page. This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use. …
...MicroSoft Inc. is considering bringing an intellectual property infringement action against the inventer of the Python programming language claiming that the language documentation infringes on MicroSoft's rights to the Monty Python Flying Circus. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Executive Vice President, is reported to have said "This is very serious -- we paid almost a quarter billion for those rights; this is almost up there with the Mona Lisa thing." Microsoft reportedly is willing to sto...
Python Success Stories Introduction Consultants naturally try to provide their customers with the best solutions for a problem. Sometimes this means exploring new areas together with the customer or directing the project into a solution space that better fits the problem than the usual "buzzword-compliant" approaches. We've seen these fail too often, misleading the project into solving problems relating to the selected technology, rather than meeting the original project plan. Pyt...
...word, so the functional syntax is necessary 'in': NotRequired[List[str]], }) Rationale One might think it unusual to propose notation that prioritizes marking required keys rather than potentially-missing keys, as is customary in other languages like TypeScript: interface Movie { title: string; year?: number; // ? marks potentially-missing keys } The difficulty is that the best word for marking a potentially-missing key, Optional[], is already used in Python for a completely di...
...words to the tag string: Another proposal we considered was to add extra words to the wheel tag, e.g. manylinux_glibc_2_17 instead of manylinux_2_17. The motivation would be to leave the door open to other kinds of versioning heuristics in the future – for example, we could have manylinux_glibc_$VERSION and manylinux_alpine_$VERSION. But "manylinux" has always been a synonym for "broad compatibility with mainstream glibc-based distros"; reusing it for unrelated build profiles like alpine is more...
...word arguments: "The story of {0}, {1}, and {c}".format(a, b, c=d) Within a format string, each positional argument is identified with a number, starting from zero, so in the above example, 'a' is argument 0 and 'b' is argument 1. Each keyword argument is identified by its keyword name, so in the above example, 'c' is used to refer to the third argument. There is also a global built-in function, 'format' which formats a single value: print(format(10.0, "7.3g")) This function is described in...
...wording changes to the Python license. Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6, with a few minor bug fixes, and with a GPL-compatible license. Note: according to CNRI, Python 1.6.1 is GPL-compatible, but the FSF's lawyer, has said that Python 1.6.1 is not compatible with the GPL. CNRI disagrees, and states the FSF's lawyer has told CNRI's lawyer that 1.6.1 is "not incompatible" with the GPL. Download Python 1.6.1 is available for download now. It is released under the...
...Microsoft Surface tablet RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant Martin v. Löwis EUR 609 to purchase a Microsoft Surface tablet to port Python to the Windows ARM processor. Approved: 7-0-1 18 Community Service Award for Antoine Pitrou RESOLVED, that the PSF gives a Community Service award to Antoine Pitrou for his contribution to CPython, including his work on the GIL and his work involving the PSF infrastructure. Approved, 8-0-0. 19 Community ...
...words if w == w.lower()] would yield the list of words that contain no uppercase characters. This is more efficient than a for loop with an if statement and a list.append() call. You can also have nested for loops and more than one 'if' clause. For example, here's a function that flattens a sequence of sequences:: def flatten(seq): return [x for subseq in seq for x in subseq] flatten([[0], [1,2,3], [4,5], [6,7,8,9], []]) This prints [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
...Microsoft's ICU API Windows does not ship the time zone database as TZif files, but as of Windows 10's 2017 Creators Update, Microsoft has provided an API for interacting with the International Components for Unicode (ICU) project [13] [14] , which includes an API for accessing time zone data — sourced from the IANA time zone database. [15] Providing bindings for this would allow us to support Windows "out of the box" without the need to install the tzdata package, but unfortunately the C header...
...word for a canned dialog), and is dependent on expert programmers for everything else. We now ask ourselves a follow-up question: "What would the world look like if users could program their own computer?" We're looking forward to a future where every computer user will be able to "open the hood" of their computer and make improvements to the applications inside. We believe that this will eventually change the nature of software and software development tools fundamentally. We comp...
...word for a canned dialog), and is dependent on expert programmers for everything else. We ask a follow-up question: "What will happen if users can program their own computer?" We're looking forward to a future where every computer user will be able to "open the hood" of their computer and make improvements to the applications inside. We believe that this will eventually change the nature of software and software development tools fundamentally. We compare mass ability to read and write so...