How will this development affect the writing of Python visual performance 
interfaces for Csound in the OLPC context?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DavidW" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] python 2.6 (was How to play a part of an audio file?)


> On 29/12/2008, at 6:06 AM, victor wrote:
>
>> I take it that 3.0 is almost a different language, is it not?
>
> from http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
> We are pleased to announce the release of Python 3.0 (final), a new
> production-ready release, on December 3rd, 2008.
> Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the
> language that isincompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The
> language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in
> objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably,
> and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the
> standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.
>
> Guido van Rossum's summary is very useful: 
> http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
>
> 3.0 info is for forward-thinking - we don't need to worry too much -
> yet!
>
> As I said, 2.6 has a switch so it is possible to migrate v2 code in a
> reasonably orderly fashion.
>
> This stuff is probably useful for csounders who write in python, so
> I'll X-post.
>
> David
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Worrall" > >
>> To: "victor" 
>> Cc: "sndobj" 
>> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: python 2.6 (was How to play a part of an audio file?)
>>
>>
>> 2.6  and 3.0 are  being released simultaneously.
>> see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>>
>> My main concern is how the 'big' apps get on with a new version..
>> Basically I don't look at a new version until someone reports numpy,
>> matplotlib an a couple of others are running smoothly. But other users
>> may have less constraints.  Numpy doesn't yet have a .dmg for v2.6. I
>> track that here:
>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/milestone/1.3.0
>>
>> ciao4now,
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 27/12/2008, at 9:38 PM, victor wrote:
>>
>>> No, I'll definitely check it out. What's the 2.6 status?
>>>
>>> Victor
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Worrall" >> >
>>> To: "sndobj" 
>>> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Sndobj-devel] (pysndobj) How to play a part of an
>>> audio file?
>>>
>>>
>>> Victor, have you played with pyglet at all?
>>>
>>> I've just been reading a  bit about python 3.0 and it seems it has
>>> some more extensive thread-related tools.
>>> v2.6 is anticipating v3.0 with the use of a future_builtins module.
>>> see http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
>>> might be worth checking out...
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>> David
>>>
>
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