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Python support in GNOME gets a boost from hackfest
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| Some GNOME developers have gathered in Boston
| for for a Python GNOME hackfest that is hosted
| by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
| The primary goals behind the hackfest include
| establishing a strategy for delivering Python
| 3.0 compatibility for the GNOME platform and
| advancing the Python GObject introspection
| project.
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| The Gtk+ toolkit, which provides the
| underlying widget system of the GNOME desktop
| environment, is an important part of the
| desktop Linux ecosystem. Although the toolkit
| itself is built with C, it can also be used
| with other programming languagesâincluding
| Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Java, and
| Scheme. Python is widely used by Gtk+
| application developers and is important to the
| GNOME community. OLPC, the host of the
| hackfest, uses Python in conjunction with Gtk+
| for its Sugar environmentâthe core user
| experience and activity collection that is
| shipped on its XO laptops.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/04/python-support-in-gnome-gets-a-boost-from-hackfest.ars
Will Wall Street require Python?
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| On 7 April 2010, the US Securities and
| Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal agency
| charged "... to protect investors, maintain
| fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and
| facilitate capital formation", proposed new
| rules covering "Asset-Backed Securities"
| [warning: 667-page PDF]. Administratively,
| this is a reaction to the trillion-dollar
| financial atrocities of the last few years, as
| well as a natural manifestation of the Obama
| administration's commitment to enhance
| procedural transparency. Shockingly, "...
| Python, a commonly used open source
| interpretive programming language ..." shows
| up on page 1 of the description. What is that
| about?
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http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-require-python
Recent:
Python goes Mercurial
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| Python is moving to a distributed version control system (DVCS), but unlike
| many projects which have moved to Git, Guido van Rossum has selected
| Mercurial, also known as Hg (the chemical symbol for mercury), as the DVCS
| for Python
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Python-goes-Mercurial--/news/112969
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