Re: [Python-Dev] Thank you all

2006-09-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Dan Eloff schrieb: > I just want to say thank you, very much, from the bottom of my heart, > to everyone here who chooses to spend some of their free time working > on improving Python. Hi Dan, I can't really speak for all the other contributors (but maybe in this case I can): Thanks for the kind

[Python-Dev] Thank you all

2006-09-15 Thread Dan Eloff
I was just browsing what's new in Python 2.5 at http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/ As I was reading I found myself thinking how almost every improvement made a programming task I commonly bump into a little easier. Take the with statement, or the new partition method for strings, or the defaultd

[Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-15 Thread Sanghyeon Seo
CPython 2.5, which will be released Real Soon Now, is the first version to ship with new "AST branch", which have been in development for a long time. AST branch uses ASDL, Abstract Syntax Description Language http://asdl.sourceforge.net/ to describe Abstract Syntax Tree data structure used by CPy