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My first recipe on ASPN.

[UPDATE] Forget the code you saw here, and checkout this project. Also take a look at this list of extensions.

TODO(wnload) when I get at home:

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop (i386) torrent

Ubuntu 7.10 Server (i386) torrent

Last week: 3 days teaching Python at FATEC. Thanks people, that was awesome!

Last weekend: Installed Foresight on my laptop. Great distro. More on that later.

It seems that the Py3k "bytes" will be immutable (just like the Python 2.x "str"), and a "buffer" type will be mutable. Just see the new PEP 3137

• Sam Ruby tryied to port the Univesal Feed Parser to Py3k. 91% of the tests pass, what is quite nice. UFP is a great piece of code, and one of the first things I would miss.

• PyGTK people started talking about the migration - this will be very appreciated too :)

Update: Do you know of any other migration initiative? Please, tell me!

At ArsTechnica, in "Open Ended", Ryn Paul talks about Python 3.0 first alpha. He shows an install trouble he had (I'm almost sure he is not using make altinstall), and focuses the rest of his article on Python 3.0 new string formatting features (more about it in the new ReST docs).

I like the way PEP 3101 is now: the formatting language is only complex when you want to do complex things :), and we dont need a complete programming language inside strings.

I hope a 2to3 fixer could translate the most commom uses of %-interpolation to .format(), but I'm not sure that old-style interpolation will be removed from Py3k. For an example, if the string on the left is not a literal, it is not possible to translate with a 2to3 fixer.

As announced by GvR:

The release is available from http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/

I'll send a longer announcement to python-list and python-announce-list. Please blog about this if you have a blog!

Thanks to all who helped out! It's been a great ride.

I will write more about Python 3.0 soon.

In other news: new bug tracker (bye sourceforge!) and new (ReST powered) docs. Awesome times in Python-land!

Hello Advogato! I intent to use this space to talk about Python. See ya!