From:	 Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>
To:	 python-announce-list@python.org
Subject: python-dev summary 2001-04-12 - 2001-04-26
Date:	 Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:00:55 +0100 (BST)
Cc:	 editors@linuxtoday.com, lwn@lwn.net

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 This is the sixth summary written by Michael Hudson.
 Summaries are archived at:

  <http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/>

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     * Python 2.1 is released! *

 After Tim found a bug of staggering subtlety in the dict code:

   <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014272.html>

 And Guido released a release candidate or two:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014205.html>
  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014290.html>

 Python 2.1 was unleashed on the world:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014298.html>

 which has already been incorporated into the cygwin distribution:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014311.html>


    * Iterators *

 Guido asked whether we thought he should check his prototype iterator
 implementation into the main trunk:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014353.html>

 After everyone said "yes!", he did so, so you can play around with
 iterators if you build a Python from CVS.  Discussion of this feature
 is going on the python-iterators list at sourceforge:

  <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-iterators>


    * Class methods *

 Thomas Heller posted another plea for class methods to be included in
 some future version of Python:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014365.html>

 Discussion wandered around a bit, drifting onto metaclasses and some
 tantalizing hints of Guido's plans for attacking the dreaded
 type/class split in Python 2.2.


    * Suirprise! *

 Tim Peter's posted a surprising consequence of how Python handles
 chained comparisons:

  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014399.html>

 This may elicit a warning from the compiler in 2.2...

Cheers,
M.


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