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Python 2.3

I love these new features. Read the full article at Byte.com

• Pure Python implementation of strptime()
• Better datetime! _print ”%d days between dates” % (date1 - date2).days_
• CSV module
• Better logging module
• A sets module. Wow!
• Another great built-in function - _for i, word in enumerate(words):_
• Slicing for sequence types get an optional “stride”.

1. I'd also like to throw in a good word for optparse. It makes it easy to have a very clean, well documented interface for command line scripts. It handles all the parsing of long, short & stacked options for you. And since it creates the help output from your option definitions, the help is always up to date.

   Posted by: Brian on September 12, 2003 03:22 PM

2. And I'll put in a plug for the ability to build a simple dictionary in the following manner:
   rights = dict(web=True, email=True, ftp=False)
   Syntactically cleaner.

   Posted by: christian on September 13, 2003 09:01 PM

3. Is there any easy csv to dictionary script? to simply get the fields names from the first row, and the adds the velues to the dict?
   I'm new to python and I'm trying to do it myself with simple iteration over the rows, and I'll probably make it, but it wont be a fast script for sure.

   Please mail me for any help! contact at br1sarlo.com

   Thanks, and great usefull site.

   Posted by: Bruno on October 30, 2003 12:18 PM