Sabtu, 01 September 2012

Dropbox Experimental 1.5.27 Targets OS X with Python 2.7 Implementation


The team behind the popular cloud-computing service Dropbox has released an experimental build of its cross-platform sync application which enhances performance tenfold on Macintosh computers.

Dropbox Experimental Edition 1.5.27 is not exactly a public-consumption release, though anyone with an adventurous spirit is welcome to try it out.

This build comes with new icons that support the MacBook Pro with Retina display, as well as a new Mac installer. It supports Mountain Lion’s new Notification Center, and boasts improved web login from the client. Context menu delay has been fixed as well.

Perhaps the most notable change is the addition of Python 2.7.

Python is a programming language that facilitates workflows and allows developers to integrate systems more effectively. Dropbox relies on Python for its ability to sync your files to the cloud.

Python not only runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac OS X, but it has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.

Scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series (before it moves into an extended maintenance period), Python 2.7 contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1. According to python.org, the improvements in this release are vast.

- An ordered dictionary type
- New unittest features including test skipping, new assert methods, and test discovery
- A much faster io module
- Automatic numbering of fields in the str.format() method
- Float repr improvements backported from 3.x
- Tile support for Tkinter
- A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x
- Set literals
- Set and dictionary comprehensions
- Dictionary views
- New syntax for nested with statements
- The sysconfig module


Thanks to the inclusion of Python 2.7, all users will experience significantly enhanced performance in Dropbox Experimental Edition 1.5.27.

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