Python-URL! - 1999/11/23

by Gordon McMillan - DejaNews: [1]

It's been a relatively quiet week on Pythondom. Those of us in the States, of course, are mentally preparing ourselves for an onslaught of fowl, football and the imminent arise of Christmas decorations.

• We have an announcement from Ben Gertzfield of CDDB.py, a program to fetch information about CD audio tracks online (Linux only; GPL'd). (see DN551850359)
• The main emphasis this week seems to be on Python internals, object models and parse trees, oh my. One thread has Greg Ewing continuing his exploration of Ruby's internals (and contrasting them with Python). This week it's object models: (see DN549499675) (see DN551536349)
• John Skaller talks about the same subject, showing how Viper (his pre-release Python-like language) deals with the same issues: (see DN551101329)
• In an unrelated thread, Greg Ewing provides some hints on how to extend Python's grammar: (see DN551856547)
• Michael Hudson announces release 0.60 of his perverse bytecodehacks: (see DN551614919)
• While John Aycock previews an alpha Python decompiler: (see DN550109419)
• Along the same track, David Jeske announces that work has started on pylint.py, a LINT for Python focussing on type-inference: (see DN551464214)