Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 27, 2018, at 21:45, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt > declared, while we were well into 2.x territory, was still the best Python > ever. (I didn't agree, but 1.5.2 did serve us very well for a long time.) What, not the

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
David Beazley has also collected various historic releases here: https://github.com/dabeaz/hoppy/tree/master/Ancient -- he's got 0.9.1, 0.9.6, 0.9.7beta1, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, and 1.0.3. For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt declared, while we were well into 2.x territo

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Lukasz Langa
> On 27 Jan, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > We probably should (if possible) create an archive (with dates) of > very old (or all, actually) versions of CPython, analogous to what The > Unix Heritage Society does for V5, V7, etc., but for CPython... > > Or is there one already? I f

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Dan Stromberg
We probably should (if possible) create an archive (with dates) of very old (or all, actually) versions of CPython, analogous to what The Unix Heritage Society does for V5, V7, etc., but for CPython... Or is there one already? I found a bunch of 1.x's, but no 0.x's. What I found was at http://leg

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Elvis Pranskevichus
And on Linux (X11) there's a compose key [1] Compose + / + L = Ł You have to map Compose first, as it's not a physical button on modern keyboards: setxkbmap -option compose:ralt [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg#Configuring_compose_key

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Cool trick! Works on Sierra too. I guess it's all part of Apple's drive to merge iOS and OS X... On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 27, 2018, at 17:04, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Hardly a surprising choice! Congrats, Łukasz. (And never forget that at > every Mac OS

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Congrats, Łukasz. And Thank you, Ned, for managing the 3.6 and 3.7 Releases. -- Senthil On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > As Ned just announced, Python 3.7 is very soon to enter beta 1 and thus > feature freeze. I think we can all give Ned a huge round of applause for >

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 27, 2018, at 17:04, Guido van Rossum mailto:gu...@python.org>> wrote: > > Hardly a surprising choice! Congrats, Łukasz. (And never forget that at every > Mac OS X upgrade I have to install the extended keyboard just so I can type > that darn Ł. :-) Heh, I *just* learned that, at least on

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hardly a surprising choice! Congrats, Łukasz. (And never forget that at every Mac OS X upgrade I have to install the extended keyboard just so I can type that darn Ł. :-) On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote: > That's awesome! A great choice. Congrats, Łukasz. > > Eric. > > > On

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Eric V. Smith
That's awesome! A great choice. Congrats, Łukasz. Eric. On 1/27/2018 4:02 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: As Ned just announced, Python 3.7 is very soon to enter beta 1 and thus feature freeze. I think we can all give Ned a huge round of applause for his amazing work as Release Manager for Python 3.

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Actually Python was born in December 1989 and first released open source in February 1991. I don't recall what version number that was, perhaps 0.1.0. The 1994 date was just the release of 1.0! On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 27/01/18 17:05, Oleg Broytman wrote: > >> O

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Eric Snow
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > please welcome your next release manager… > > Łukasz Langa! Congrats, Łukasz! (or condolences? ) -eric ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

[Python-Dev] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

2018-01-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
As Ned just announced, Python 3.7 is very soon to enter beta 1 and thus feature freeze. I think we can all give Ned a huge round of applause for his amazing work as Release Manager for Python 3.6 and 3.7. Let’s also give him all the support he needs to make 3.7 the best version yet. As is tra

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Lukasz Langa
> On 27 Jan, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Simon Cross > wrote: > > Python Party Proposal! Oh, that's okay then. For a second there I got reminded of the dreadful days of trying to get dial-up to work on Linux with a winmodem. PPP. Shudder. - Ł signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP _

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Simon Cross
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Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Simon Cross wrote: > We need a PPP! Playful Python Party?! Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmanhttp://phdru.name/p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Simon Cross
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[Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: 3.7.0b1 and feature code cutoff 2018-01-29

2018-01-27 Thread Ned Deily
Happy mid-winter (northern hemisphere) or -summer (southern)! The time has come to finish feature development for Python 3.7. As previously announced, this coming Monday marks the end of the alpha phase of the release cycle and the beginning of the beta phase. Up through the alpha phase, there h

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/01/18 17:05, Oleg Broytman wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:58:54AM -0800, Senthil Kumaran wrote: Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago. 24 years ago, no? (-: Correct so we only have one year to o

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread David Mertz
Does anyone have an archive of the Python 1.0 documentation? Sadly http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/Python.html is not a live URL :-). On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran > wrote: > > Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 > Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago. > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ > > It is very entertain

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 08:58:54AM -0800, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 > Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago. 24 years ago, no? (-: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo/KI

[Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Someone in HackerNews shared the Guido's Python 1.0.0 announcement from 27 Jan 1994. That is, on this day, 20 years ago. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/comp.lang.misc/_QUzdEGFwCo/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ It is very entertaining to read. * Guido was the release manager, which is now taken