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• Python 2.0

  ...Constant(), and PyModule_AddStringConstant(). Cleaned up definition of NULL in C source code; all definitions were removed and add #error to Python.h if NULL isn't defined after #include of stdio.h. Py_PROTO() macros that were removed in 2.0b1 have been restored for backwards compatibility (at the source level) with old extensions. A wrapper API was added for signal() and sigaction(). Instead of either function, always use PyOS_getsig() to get a signal handler and PyO...

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

  ...Definition, as established by the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/). Add the following paragraph to the end of the mission statement (after "Encourages and facilitates Python-related research in the public interest."): "Open source" is defined as: freely available technology licensed under terms compatible with Version 1.9 (or later) of the Open Source Definition, as established by the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/). Appro...

• Notes

  ...definition in the nearest enclosing function scope will be used. One consequence of this change is that lambda statements could reference variables in the namespaces where the lambda is defined. In some unusual cases, this change will break code. In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a function A is defined within a function B, the names bo...

• 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 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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

  ...Definition, as established by the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/). Add the following paragraph to the end of the mission statement (after "Encourages and facilitates Python-related research in the public interest."): "Open source" is defined as: freely available technology licensed under terms compatible with Version 1.9 (or later) of the Open Source Definition, as established by the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/). Appro...

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