Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:58:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL! – weekly Python news and links (Jul 18)
Mark Hammond reveals a fourth (nth?) Python implementation on the horizon: “It has a compiler that generates native Windows .DLL/.EXE files. It uses a runtime that consists of a few thousand lines of C# (C-Sharp) code. … Python can subclass VB or C# classes, and vice-versa.”
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/013019.html
The Python community has always had fun suggesting enhancements to the language, but unless you follow threads carefully, it can be hard to figure out the state of a proposal. Barry Warsaw will be making the process more formal and IETF-like, as described here:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/013059.html
Huaiyu Zhu provides class calculus to help homesick Javans and others involved in a particular kind of type correctness
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=635109618
Edward K. Ream and Gordon McMillan show how to think about generation of executables which embed Python, even in the face of Win* peculiarities, Borland-Microsoft miscegenation, backlinking, extensions, and related abstrusities
http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=647162382
Intellisens-ability: PythonWin capacity to use a key other than TAB in AutoComplete traversal
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=647146716
TheKompany.com releases the third distinct product called “Visual Python”. This one “is aimed at KDE and GNOME appli- cation developers and allows you to easily embed Python as a GUI enabled scripting language in your application”
http://x75.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=647020031