Python-URL! - 1999/09/07

by David Ascher - DejaNews: [1]

End of summer fruit from comp.lang.python and related trees

• The next International Python Conference is scheduled, and the program committee eagerly awaits paper submissions http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html
• Andreas Jung self-deprecatingly misses the elegance of a simple program he wrote to beautify XML (see DN520249301)
• While we're talking about XML, there are announcements from the FourThought folks of the backend tools they talked about in Monterey http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001420.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001421.html http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001422.html
• Mark Hammond says that "it works fine", whether he's talking about MTS, the registry, audits, permissions, remote servers, etc. We're getting jaded! (see DN521155191) (see DN520824493)
• Mark also announces that his win32 extensions are now under CVS control http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html
• In the "scary" category, Greg Ewing takes a sneaky way around an implementation trick and pretends it's the "design pattern" that Magnus Hetland asked for (and Magnus agrees!) (see DN517466084) (see DN520858452)
• Tim Peters regales us with more details about strings in Python than you cared to know about (see DN521587749)
• Among lots of rambling dispatches on the topic of Turing completeness and other nonsense, Greg Ewing sets us straight on the future of Python http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/017036.html
• In the field of useless algorithms people like to bicker about, the ugly truth emerges that version skew exists even for "authoritative" books (see DN519554469)

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