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Python 2.3.1 Just Released

Posted by timothy on from the sssssssss dept.

PSF writes "The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has announced the release of version 2.3.1 of the Python programming language. This minor release introduces a number of enhancements based on two months of experience since release of version 2.3. For more information see www.python.org/2.3.1."

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  1. Re:The real 2.3 release? by jemfinch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Python 2.3 had its development accelerated, but it most definitely was not released early. Had we not chosen to accelerate development, we would have released it just a week later.

    That's why you haven't noticed any serious problems with the 2.3 release. It wasn't rushed.

    Jeremy

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  2. Re:Cross compiling by pong · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cross-compiling Python

  3. Re:Boost.Python Library by kraut · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a good tutorial for python at python.org, and I think there's some link to others. I've head people recommend Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Python, which is available online as well, but I found the tutorial enough to get going. It is a really easy language to pick up, certainly if you are capable of handling Boost ;)

    Re Boost.Python - a colleague of mine just picked it up and had his first extension going in half an hour, and most of that was spent on sorting out LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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  4. Re:Boost.Python Library by costas · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here you go:
    • Everything's an object
    • Loops, if blocks and the like are marked by identation/whitespace. Put another way, there are no {} religious wars, coz there ain't any {}s. Trust me, it's a beautiful thing.
    • Code makes sense the first time you look at it. There are a few Python idioms that will take a bit if you're coming from the outside, but you will learn them fast and they are not that complicated.
    • You will never appreciate another language again. Proceed with caution, this may be detrimental to your employment :-)


    Sample code:

    myfile = open("data.csv")
    for line in myfile.readlines():
    columns = line.split(',')
    print "Column 2 is %s " % columns[1]

    myfile.close()

    Can you tell what this does? This is not the exception, this is the rule. Even deep-magic Python code is understandable by another developer after just a few looks. That's the main, big advantage over other high-level languages...