Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python’s Moratorium—Let’s think about this. Jesse Noller explains the thinking behind the Python Language Moratorium (no new language features until Python 3.3) in great detail. It’s principally about allowing both end users and alternative implementations to catch up. The standard library will continue to evolve as normal.

# 5th December 2009, 5:33 pm / jessenoller, python

jessenoller.com—python magazine. Jesse Noller has been sharing his articles originally published in Python Magazine. Topics include SSH programming with Paramiko, context managers and the with statement and an excellent explanation of Python’s threading support and the global interpreter lock.

# 5th February 2009, 11:10 pm / contextmanagers, gil, jessenoller, paramiko, python, pythonmagazine, ssh, threading