python-memcached is deprecated, but still used in core Django

2019-11-24 Thread Adrian Turjak
ccessor in pymemcache. I'm sadly not in a position where I can contribute this myself, but would be happy to test/review. Are there any willing contributors for this? Or some people from the Django core team which will tackle this? Cheers, Adrian Turjak -- You received this message

Re: python-memcached is deprecated, but still used in core Django

2019-11-25 Thread Adrian Turjak
7;s also a very > simply update process. > > On Monday, November 25, 2019 at 6:46:05 AM UTC+7, Adrian Turjak wrote: > > A while ago now I opened a ticket that we need to deprecate the > python-memcached backend in Django, and ideally make a new one which > uses Pinteres

Re: python-memcached is deprecated, but still used in core Django

2019-12-08 Thread Adrian Turjak
A backport probably isn't needed, but I strongly urge deprecation. The library has had a few failed attempts at pick up, but ultimately those who wanted to do that just moved to pymemcached, and anyone else sensible will do the same. There is no need or want to maintain python-memcached when a stro

Re: declarative settings

2020-02-25 Thread Adrian Turjak
Declarative settings, and a lack of a good settings file parsing system, led me into some rather interesting directions not that long ago. I maintain an OpenStack project called Adjutant, and I built it on Django, but ended up using yaml as my config file and having settings.py read it and pull in

python-memcached seems to be unmaintained

2018-10-28 Thread Adrian Turjak
Through some of my last few projects using Django and Memcached I kept running into the problem that python-memcached appears to no longer be maintained[1], and even before that the release frequency was getting quite low. For Django pylibmc is an alternative, but having to rely on an underlying C

Re: Python string formatting

2018-10-31 Thread Adrian Turjak
There was a push to deprecated % formatting but too many people complained and that never happened.While .format and g-strings are superior, % is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Too many people still use it (including myself sometimes).On 1 Nov. 2018 08:14, Carlton Gibson wrote:We had a b