Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:07, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Several of the PSF blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform are experiencing > issues as fallout from the recent maintenance problems they had. We have > already had to recreate at least one of the translations for Python Insider > in order

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:07, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> Several of the PSF blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform are >> experiencing issues as fallout from the recent maintenance problems they >> had. We have already had to recreate at

[Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Tim Golden
There's a thread on python-list at the moment: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-May/1272505.html which is discussing the validity of os.access results on Windows. Now we've been here before: I raised issue2528 for a previous enquiry some years ago and proffered a patch which us

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > This behavior matches what I was imagining for having > b'a' == 97.  They compare equal, yet remain distinct objects > for all other purposes. > > If anybody has a link to or an explanation why equal values must be equal > hashes I'm all ears

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
>> With respect to Google Blogger, I don't see a good reason to use it as >> the platform for the blog. > > As with any infrastructure, there is a reasonably high cost in > changing, as people have become used to a certain way of doing things, > and porting the contents from the old system to the n

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: >>> With respect to Google Blogger, I don't see a good reason to use it as >>> the platform for the blog. >> >> As with any infrastructure, there is a reasonably high cost in >> changing, as people have become used to a certain way of doing thi

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden wrote: > There's a thread on python-list at the moment: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-May/1272505.html > > which is discussing the validity of os.access results on > Windows. Now we've been here before: I raised issue2528 > for a p

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Tim Golden
On 20/05/2011 16:21, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden (Sorry about that; I had no idea I'd sent that from my work account) I think we should tread lightly in the documentation area. We already have two note boxes, and adding a third probably scares everyone away.

Re: [Python-Dev] packaging landed in stdlib

2011-05-20 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: > On 19.05.2011 13:35, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Hey >> >> I've pushed packaging in stdlib. There are a few buildbots errors >> we're fixing right now. >> >> We will continue our work in their directly for now on. > > Rock on! Thanks :) Still work

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
> There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the > python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these > things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another "hosted by > someone else" site is probably not a good idea, but our hands may be > forced if google/blogger

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > Has the Python insider blog really accumulated enough history and > cruft to make this move problematic? It's a fairly new blog, with not > much content in it. From my blogging experience, Blogger has other > limitations which eventually bite

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: >> There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the >> python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these >> things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another "hosted by >> someone else" site is probably not a

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/2011 11:35 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: >> There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the >> python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these >> things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another "hosted by >>

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-05-20 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-05-13 - 2011-05-20) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open2794 (+10) closed 21115 (+46) total 23909 (+56) Open issues wit

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On May 20, 2011 8:30 AM, "Tim Golden" wrote: > On 20/05/2011 16:21, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden (Sorry about that; I had no idea I'd sent that from my work account) > >> I think we should tread lightly in the documentation area. We already >> have two note b

[Python-Dev] Hello!

2011-05-20 Thread Charles-François Natali
Hi, My name is Charles-François Natali, I've been using Python for a couple years, and I've recently been granted commit priviledge. I just wanted to say hi to everyone on this list, and let you know that I'm really happy and proud of joining this great community. Cheers, cf

[Python-Dev] in latest Py3k site.py: configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'posix_prefix'

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, since May 19, I get the exception below in the latest py3k site.py when trying to run a distutils build with it (building Cython). The changelog since the previous (working) CPython build is here: https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/py3k-hg/374/ The failing build is here: h

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Georg Brandl
On 20.05.2011 17:35, Eli Bendersky wrote: >> There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the >> python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these >> things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another "hosted by >> someone else" site is probably not a good idea, bu

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> As Jesse has said, there is an RFP in development to improve > python.org to the point where we can self-host blogs and the like and > deal with the associated user account administration appropriately. To run a blog on www.python.org, a PEP is not needed. If anybody would volunteer to set this

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> TBH I think the less attractive we can make os.access() look the > better. It uses the real uid instead of the effective uid, it > encourages LBYL behavior, the outcome may be incorrect, it doesn't > work on Windows... The ONLY reason to ever use it is in a setuid() > program. But who writes thos

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Doug Hellmann
On May 20, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> As Jesse has said, there is an RFP in development to improve >> python.org to the point where we can self-host blogs and the like and >> deal with the associated user account administration appropriately. > > To run a blog on www.python.org,

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.7 release candidate 2 now available

2011-05-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hello to all you Pythoneers and Pythonistas, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 2.6.7 release candidate 2. Release candidate 1 was not widely announced due to a mismatch between the Mercurial and Subversion branches. Barring any unforeseen issues, this will be the last release candi

Re: [Python-Dev] in latest Py3k site.py: configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'posix_prefix'

2011-05-20 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Stefan Behnel wrote: > since May 19, I get the exception below in the latest py3k site.py when > trying to run a distutils build with it (building Cython). The changelog > since the previous (working) CPython build is here: > > https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/py3k

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello!

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 19:01 +0200, Charles-François Natali wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Charles-François Natali, I've been using Python for a > couple years, and I've recently been granted commit priviledge. > I just wanted to say hi to everyone on this list, and let you know > that I'm really happ