Python-URL! - 2000/07/18

by Andrew M. Kuchling - DejaNews: [1]

• 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 (see DN635109618)
• 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 (see DN647162382)
• Intellisens-ability: PythonWin capacity to use a key other than TAB in AutoComplete traversal (see DN647146716)
• 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" (see DN647020031)