Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:17:59 -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 (May 22)
Words to live by: “the registry sucks, but … a global environment sucks even more!”
http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623411718
http://x44.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623726469
Jeff Kunce installs Python for network sharing
http://starship.python.net/crew/jjkunce/netinstall/python_network_setup.html
GvR announces that the Python CVS tree has been moved to SourceForge. This makes it possible to give external developers checkin privileges.
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058080.html
A page on using Python from Delphi:
http://www.multimania.com/marat/delphi/python.htm
Peter Milliken announces Python support for ELSE, which adds language-specific templates to Emacs:
http://members.xoom.com/pmilliken
Francois Pinard postes interesting code snippets. He calculates the fraction closest to a decimal number:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057402.html and converts nsgmls output to an in-memory tree:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057442.html
Speculation about Python 3000, and the mooted possibility of introducing case-insensitivity, lead to a lengthy discussion. (Since this is comp.lang.python, it’s a discussion and not a flamewar.) You can start following the thread from the following posting:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057876.html
A few noteworthy posts in the thread: GvR, on the rationale for the potential change:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/057990.html
Fredrik Lundh, on the Alice work that gave rise to the idea:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058031.html
Francois Pinard explains his disagreement:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058044.html
“3 years is a long time”, by A.M. Kuchling:
http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-May/058053.html