I'm no longer a python developer
A real shame, this. He's been a real contributer to Python. Possible his most high profile contribution is Python's new (at 2.0) unicode regular expression module, which I use every day. (Well, OK, most days.) But this is far from being his only contribution.
I don't see him much on c.l.py any more, either, which is a shame. He's helped me out in the past. I'm not surprised, though - the volume of postings on c.l.py is huge these days.
Oh, and if you are a Python developer and don't yet have The Python Standard Library, I recommend it. When using a new module for the first time, I find a simple example or two a much more effective quick start than the docs, good though they are, and Python Standard Library gives you exactly this.
Posted to Python by Simon Brunning at February 04, 2003 09:25 AMI think his point was that he has decoupled himself from the python-dev scene, rather than discontinued his use of Python. Given the number of "cool syntax" enhancements that have floated around in the past couple of years, and the startling appearance of them on a mailing list like python-dev, which is supposed to be fairly tightly controlled, I'm not exactly surprised that Fredrik has decided that he has better things to spend his time on than follow the ramblings of "wouldn't it be nice" tinkerers.
Posted by: Paul Boddie on February 4, 2003 02:07 PMOh, absolutely - I'd imagine that Fredrik is still a developer *with* Python, just not *of* Python.
Posted by: Simon on February 4, 2003 02:12 PMThe title of the post is "I'm no longer a python-dev:eloper" - I took it to mean that he has just unsubscribed from the python-dev mailing list, not that he has given up developing Python itself.
Posted by: Simon Willison on February 4, 2003 03:05 PMSimon,
It is *now*, but it wasn't when I posted!
I suspect that you are right. Perhaps Fredrik changed the title of his post to make this clear. I certainly hope so!
Posted by: Simon on February 4, 2003 03:12 PM