16 items tagged “guido-van-rossum”
2024
PEP 750 – Tag Strings For Writing Domain-Specific Languages. A new PEP by Jim Baker, Guido van Rossum and Paul Everitt that proposes introducing a feature to Python inspired by JavaScript's tagged template literals.
F strings in Python already use a f"f prefix", this proposes allowing any Python symbol in the current scope to be used as a string prefix as well.
I'm excited about this. Imagine being able to compose SQL queries like this:
query = sql"select * from articles where id = {id}"
Where the sql tag ensures that the {id} value there is correctly quoted and escaped.
Currently under active discussion on the official Python discussion forum.
2010
python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py in 1994 (via) Python’s original httplib implementation, checked in by Guido 16 years and 4 months ago. Not much younger than the Web itself.
2009
Python in the Scientific World. Python continues to make strides in the scientific world—and the Hubble Space Telescope team have been using it for 10 years!
The History of Python: Adding Support for User-defined Classes. Guido designed the run-time representation first, and tried to design the syntax to include as few new parsing concepts as possible. The origins of explicit self are also explained.
The History of Python (via) “A series of articles on the history of the Python programming language and its community”, being compiled by Guido plus guest authors.
2008
What’s New In Python 3.0. Lots.
Google App Engine for developers. Best in-depth coverage so far, from Niall Kennedy. I didn’t know that Guido had worked on the Django compatibility layer.
Monkeypatching idioms—elegant or ugly? Guido offers a decorator and a metaclass as syntactic sugar for monkeypatching existing Python classes.
2007
Python 3000 Status Update. Doesn’t look like we’ll get multiline lambdas, but the other stuff looks great. I’m not looking forward to years of Python 2 and Python 3 co-existing and splitting the community though (ala PHP 4 and 5).
Just because Java was once aimed at a set-top box OS that didn't support multiple address spaces, and just because process creation in Windows used to be slow as a dog, doesn't mean that multiple processes (with judicious use of IPC) aren't a much better approach to writing apps for multi-CPU boxes than threads.
2006
[Python-3000] Refactoring tool available. Guido’s initial work on a tool for converting Python 2.x code to Python 3K.
2005
Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google. Google are taking dynamic languages really seriously.
Stricter Whitespace Enforcement. Finally! Guido tightens the rules on whitespace.
Five-minute Multimethods in Python. A nice decorator example from Guido.
2003
Artima Weblogs
Artima.com recently started hosting weblogs, with membership by invitation only. With people like Guido van Rossum and Ward Cunningham already signed up Artima looks set to become a very interesting corner of the blogging world.
The making of Python
One for the reading list: The Making of Python—A conversation with Guido van Rossum, Part I.