Free Software Magazine: Thrills, Chills, and Pictures from PyCON 2007
Feb 27, 2007, 03:15 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Terry Hancock)
"I've come back from day two of PyCON, exhausted and red-eyed,
but also really excited. I've learned about several different ways
to integrate C libraries into Python, including ctypes which,
though an old library, has only entered the standard library in
Python 2.5 (released earlier this year). I've heard the story of
modern cyberpunk heroes braving the wrath of the information
police, patching code on the fly to evade the notice of the
oppressive governments they are exposing for their censorship
practices (that is so cool). I've heard Guido van Rossum promise to
break all of our code with 'Python 3000,' which will become an
actual Python 3.0 release sometime later this year or next year
(for a long a time, it was primarily regarded as a science
fictional release--complete with alien code and monster backwards
incompatibilities). Seriously, it turns out
it’s not going to be that bad. I took a number
of nice pictures, which are not the world's best photography, but
far better than last year. And there's more..."
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