PLNews: Programming Language News

The August 5, 2008 edition of the Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

Aspyct 1.0 RC1 has been released. It is a library that allows for aspect-oriented programming using Python.

This release includes: support for creating custom join points, the removal of restoreAll, the addition of the PointCut class, bug fixes, and other changes.

Aspyct 0.9.2 has been released. It is a library that allows for aspect-oriented programming using Python.

This release includes: the addition of atPrint, afterPrint, afterCall, atRaise, beforeInit, afterInit, restoreInit functions; and bug fixes.

Python 3.0b2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes: exception tracebacks with support for exception chaining, traceback module support for chained exceptions, improvements to the gettext library, bug fixes, and other changes.

Python 2.6b2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes bug fixes.

Jython 2.5a0+ has been released. Jython is a Python implementation written in Java.

This release includes: support for generator expression, support for the 'with' statement, improved Unicode support, and other changes.

IronPython 2.0 Beta 3 has been released. IronPython is an implementation of Python running on .NET.

This release includes: performance improvements, auto-templating support added to the Dynamic Language Runtime, cmath and _winreg modules, bug fixes, and other changes.

The June 11, 2008 edition of the Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Toronto Python User's Group will be held on June 17, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Chicago Python User Group meeting will be held on June 12, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on June 10, 2008.

Shed Skin 0.0.28 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler which emits C++ code.

This release includes: support for os.popen3 and os.popen4 under UNIX, socket support, support for time.strptime on Windows, support for 'cmp' and 'reverse' arguments of sorted and list.sort, restored compatibility with Python 2.3, bug fixes, and other changes.

The June 3, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

It has been announced that the next New York City Python Users' Group meeting will be held on June 17, 2008.

tinypy 1.1 has been released. tinypy is a small implementation of a subset of Python.

This release includes: 'from ... import ...' improvements, an initial pygame module, setup.py improvements, Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 compatibility, bug fixes, and other changes.

The May 19, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

It has been announced that registration is now open for EuroPython 2008. "EuroPython is an annual volunteer-run conference for the communities around the Python programming language, including the Plone and Zope communities."

The conference will be held from July 7 to 12, 2008, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The May 12, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Python community.

It has been announced that the next Leipzig Python User Group meeting will be held on May 13, 2008.

It has been announced that the next Chigaco Python User Group meeting will be held on May 8, 2008.