Python-URL! - 2000/05/22

by Andrew M. Kuchling - DejaNews: [1]

• Words to live by: "the registry sucks, but ... a global environment sucks even more!" (see DN623411718) (see DN623726469)
• 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