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First of all, Blueprint is an amazing framework that I discovered a couple of days ago. It spares us the constant re-use of some CSS / HTML design techniques, while maintaining W3C validation and providing a clean default typography for websites as well as a nice printing style sheet.

So, I’ve made a little plugin for the Pylons web framework that easily includes the Blueprint files onto Pylons projects.

I’m using Google Code to host the project: blueprint-pylons.

programming, python, pylons, css, webdesign

Python 3000 (a.k.a. “Py3k”, and released as Python 3.0) is a new version of the language that is incompatible 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.

This is an ongoing project; the cleanup isn’t expected to be complete until 2008. In particular there are plans to reorganize the standard library namespace.

The release plan is to have a series of alpha releases in 2007, beta releases in 2008, and a final release in August 2008. The alpha releases are primarily aimed at developers who want a sneak peek at the new langauge, especially those folks who plan to port their code to Python 3000. The hope is that by the time of the final release, many 3rd party packages will already be available in a 3.0-compatible form.

In Python.org.

Let me update you with the latest news about pynpp.

I’ve been working on the internal console up until now, and I think it’s pretty decent. My first purpose was to be able to debug plugins trough a nice interface, that embedded well with Notepad++, but as the development went on I decided to build a proper console docked on Notepad++.

This console is quite stable, though not fully tested. For the future expect some colouring, maybe syntax colouring. I think it’s not important for now.

Also, I’m documenting the entire Python module that pynpp builds inside Notepad++ - it’s called pynpp (original, huh?). Here are those docs. This module will carry all the objects needed to create plugins in Python for Notepad++.

If you want a test drive, you can always download the latest DLL build, directly from the SVN repository through HTTP right over here.

Finally, here’s a screenie from the latest build: