Re: [Python-Dev] standard libraries don't behave like standard 'libraries'

2009-11-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:08 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > I am not an expert, I am just another python learner. These are just my > > views on the state of the standard libraries and to > > make them state-of-the-art..! ;) > > If I understand correctly, you want the (current) standard library

Re: [Python-Dev] standard libraries don't behave like standard 'libraries'

2009-11-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:36:10 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > It could be something as simple as a "require" keyword which could > > pull in the depdencies if not found. Perhaps at the top of

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2010-01-04 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Steven Bethard > wrote: > > > > If you're only concerned about 2.X, then yes, optparse will *never* be > > removed from 2.X. There will be a deprecation note in the 2.X > > documentation but deprecation

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that > can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For > instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x > era) are going away in

Re: [Python-Dev] E3 BEFEHLE

2010-01-20 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > 2010/1/16 Jack Diederich : > > Good lord, did this make it past other people's spam filters too? I > > especially liked the reference to "REGION -2,0 ; Rlyeh". Ph'nglui > > mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn to you too sir. > > Ya ma

[Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
Hi, I am surprised to see that the bug-tracker doesn't have an OS classifier or ability to add tags ? Since a number of issues reported seem to be OS specific (one can find a lot of Windows only issues upon a search), won't adding these fields help bug triaging ? I am not sure which so

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:06:29PM +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > >>I am surprised to see that the bug-tracker > >> doesn't have an OS classifier or