Re: [Python-Dev] Minor: Unix icons for 2.5?

2006-07-11 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
I know the .desktop files have become fairly standard, but are these our responsibility or does that rest with the distributions/integrators? (I'm not objecting, but I'm not sure what the right thing really is since Python is an interpreter, not

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
sure some of that is just me having my attention elsewhere, I suspect a longer tail on the cycle to do gammas (or release candidates, or whatever) would definately encourage more testing with applications and the larger frameworks. No, it won't catch everything, but I think it w

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ses isn't where the problem is, I think. It's that, once squeezed, more releases aren't being added to compensate. We really need to determine what time we need to go from beta1 to (gamma|rc)1, and then from (gamma|rc)1 to final. Plenty of interim releases

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

2006-07-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Friday 14 July 2006 01:45, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > I'd prefer something like 90 days. +1 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] logging module broken because of locale

2006-07-18 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 14:52, Mihai Ibanescu wrote: > Unicode might be a perfectly acceptable suggestion for others too. Are we still supporting builds that don't include Unicode? If so, that needs to be considered in a patch as well. -Fred -- Fred L. D

Re: [Python-Dev] first draft of bug guidelines for www.python.org/dev/

2006-07-20 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
t; by "nobody" in the "Submitted By" column. SourceForge supports anonymous reporting, but the Python project determined that the management cost of anonymous reports was higher than the value they provided. It might be time to reconsider that decision (though my position hasn&

Re: [Python-Dev] Release manager pronouncement needed: PEP 302 Fix

2006-07-28 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
hose are the only reasonable solutions. I'd rather see things fixed, but I don't know how much time Phillip has to work on it. I'll be working on the straigtening out the xmlcore issue tonight/tomorrow. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 release schedule

2006-07-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:44, Barry Warsaw wrote: > if isinstance(obj, ClassType) or isinstance(obj, type(type)) Looks like you've got a possible name clash in the second isinstance. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 release schedule

2006-07-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
what he's been up to. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] internal weakref API should be Py_ssize_t?

2006-08-01 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
hanges. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Arlington VA sprint on Sept. 23

2006-08-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
cessible to a reviewer. It's not the only way. I can guess at Martin's thinking, but I'd rather let him speak for himself, since I'm not a trained channeller. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] A test suite for unittest

2006-08-31 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
;s docs. This new patch corrects and clarifies > numerous sections of the module's documentation. Anthony did approve documentation changes for 2.5, so I've committed this for 2.5 and on the trunk (2.6). These should be considered for 2.4.4 as well. (The

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-09-02 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Saturday 02 September 2006 23:58, Anthony Baxter wrote: > I think this is suitable for 2.5. I'm thinking, though, that we need a > second release candidate, given the number of changes since rc1. +1 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Problem withthe API for str.rpartition()

2006-09-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
) -> (tail, sep, rest) Here, "rest" is always used for "what remains"; head/tail are somewhat more clear here I think. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Problem withthe API for str.rpartition()

2006-09-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
> the ordering of the return tuple. OTOH, there is some small loss in > that the head/tail terminology is highly suggestive of how to use the > function when making succesive partitions. See my previous note in this thread for another suggestion. -Fred --

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Problem withthe API for str.rpartition()

2006-09-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
g (overly generic) jargon like unparsed and data. I don't see the distinction between tail and rest as problematic. But I've not used lisp for a long time. > Whatever the final decision, it would probably be best to add an > example to the docstring. "a.b.c&quo

Re: [Python-Dev] dict.discard

2006-09-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
et if it is a member. > > If the element is not a member, do nothing. Would the argument be the key, or the pair? I'd guess the key. If so, there's the 2-arg flavor of dict.pop(): >>> d = {} >>> d.pop("key", None) It's not terribly obvio

Re: [Python-Dev] list.discard? (Re: dict.discard)

2006-09-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Thursday 21 September 2006 20:21, Greg Ewing wrote: >if x not in somelist: > somelist.remove(x) I'm just guessing you really meant "if x in somelist". ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev ma

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] release25-maint is UNFROZEN

2006-09-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
how these pages should be updated properly at the Arlington sprint this weekend, at which point I can update PEP 101 appropriately and make sure this gets done when releases are made. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] what's really new in python 2.5 ?

2006-10-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
document, and > a placeholder for "what's new in python 2.6". I suspect Google (and all other search engines) should be warded off from docs.python.org/dev/. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] what's really new in python 2.5 ?

2006-10-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
decoys than usable end-user docs. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] what's really new in python 2.5 ?

2006-10-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
referring to an old heading. That does sound like a .aux file got left around. I don't know what the build process is for the material in docs.python.org/dev/; I think the right thing would be to start each build with a fresh checkout/export. -Fre

Re: [Python-Dev] what's really new in python 2.5 ?

2006-10-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
hat certainly sounds like it should be sufficient. The doc build should never write anywhere but within the Doc/ tree; it doesn't even use the tempfile module to pick up any other temporary scratch space. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Caching float(0.0)

2006-10-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
k I changed what was generated for float literals. That could be my memory going bad, though. The code changed several times as people with more numeric-fu that myself fixed all sorts of border cases. I've tried really hard to stay away from the code generator since then. :-) -Fred -

Re: [Python-Dev] what's really new in python 2.5 ?

2006-10-08 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
generally interesting, as you note, and remains open to crawlers. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4.4 docs?

2006-10-24 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
look at the release PEP again... -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 355 status

2006-10-25 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
wrong. os.path is an alias for one of several different real modules; which is selected depends on the platform. I see the following: macpath, ntpath, os3emxpath, riscospath. (ntpath is used for all Windows versions, not just NT.) -Fred

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
"layegg"? Actually, why not just "egg"? That's parallel to "rpm" at least, and there isn't such a command installed on my Ubuntu box already. (Using synaptic to search for "egg" resulted in little that actually had "egg" in the name

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r53110 - pyt hon/trunk/Lib/mailbox.py

2006-12-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
t the numeric values mean with checking the reference documentation. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Cached Property Pattern

2006-12-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
d the value may need to be re-computed frequently anyway. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r53110 - python/trunk/Lib/mailbox.py

2006-12-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
constant over a magic number in code. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Renaming Include/object.h

2007-01-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
e many problems with existing software as object.h > shouldn't be included directly, anyway. +1 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] Renaming Include/object.h

2007-01-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:38, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Maybe this should be done in a more systematic fashion? E.g. by giving > all "internal" header files a "py_" prefix? Even better. +42 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Re: [Python-Dev] Renaming Include/object.h

2007-01-03 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
part I care about. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Private header files (Was: Renaming Include/object.h)

2007-01-04 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
y would have to study the details here, first. If everything public gets included from Python.h, perhaps python/object.h and friends could become pythonX.Y/object.h; I'm not sure this will solve the Mac OS framework magic issue, though, not being a Mac OS developer. -Fred --

Re: [Python-Dev] Pydoc Improvements / Rewrite

2007-01-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
utput to the appropriate HTML / text output module? > How does the HTML output module know how to handle non-standard metadata? There's already __docformat__; see: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#choice-of-docstring-format -Fred -

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding timeout option to httplib...connect()

2007-02-09 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
gt; different ways for different libraries and having to make a (small, but > annoying) semantic leap when going from, say, httplib to smtpllib or > ftplib. Agreed. In the meanwhile, there's socket.setdefaulttimeout(), which has proved quite useful.

Re: [Python-Dev] Integer division operator can give float result?

2007-02-27 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
int: r == int(r) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Has anyone been in touch with Fred Drake?

2007-03-28 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
inue pushing that mis-feature on me. :-/ I appear to be receiving my Python lists just fine again. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Italic text in the manual

2007-03-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
but it only was a problem of the text, not of the > markup. This doesn't seem to be a problem any more, so I'm going to presume Martin fixed it. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Italic text in the manual

2007-03-29 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ther occurrances of \em on the trunk of in Py3K. The online build will catch up when the automated build runs again. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] context manager - generator interaction?

2007-04-06 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
. On Friday 06 April 2007 10:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PEP 8 anyone? New users should be exposed sooner than this; most will never read any PEP. The tutorial seems like a good place. This is general good programming practice we're talking about here, not style. -Fred -

Re: [Python-Dev] minidom -> new-style classes?

2007-04-17 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
as much of the information found in the W3C DOM as possible. Something based more on the ElementTree API, perhaps. The value of the W3C-approved API has certainly turned out to be more decoy than anything. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] whitespace normalization

2007-04-25 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ver break anything it should be more > > tracable). > > +1 +1 here as well; there's no need to let things like this get out-of-sync from what we want. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

2007-05-02 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
dst_dir, dst)) > > I use this kind of thing frequently. Don't know if others consider it > bad style. I do this too; this is a good way to have a simple human-readable message without doing weird things to about extraneous newlines or strange indent

Re: [Python-Dev] Changing string constants to byte arr ays ([Python-checkins] r55119 - in python/branches/p y3k-struni/Lib: codecs.py test/test_codecs.py )

2007-05-04 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Friday 04 May 2007, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > I also suggest making all bytes literals immutable to avoid running > into any issues like the above. +1 from me. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] Byte literals (was Re: [Python-checkins] Changing string constants to byte arrays ( r55119 - in python/branches/py3k-struni/Lib: codecs.py test/test_codecs.py ))

2007-05-05 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
would be very useful as a dictionary key as well, and more space-efficient than tuple(b'...'). Whether there should be one type with a flag indicating mutability, or two separate types (as with set and frozenset), I'm not sure. The later offers some small performance benefits, but I

Re: [Python-Dev] \code or \constant in tex markup

2007-05-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ange, but consistency is valuable too. Perhaps it's time to make the change across the board. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Official version support statement

2007-05-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Barry Warsaw wrote: > This came up in a different context. I originally emailed this to > the python.org admins, but Aahz rightly points out that we should > first agree here that this actually /is/ our official stance. +1 -Fred -- Fred L.

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
le to continue to use the old tools, but where will they get them if > they are no longer part of Python? I'll be happy to pull the existing tools out into a separate distribution if we move to something else for Python. There are too many users of the existing tools to abandon. -Fr

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Monday 21 May 2007, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > Disadvantages: > > * reST markup isn't much simpler than LaTeX. * reST doesn't support nested markup, which is used in the current documentation. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
if anyone wants it (it uses Myghty - Mason in Python.) This is very cool. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ings easier for people who are willing to put the work into contribution, which is valuable in its own right. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Uns

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Georg Brandl wrote: > But that's at least funnier than before :) It's not our job to make whiner-babies sound funny. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://ma

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-23 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
s to Georg, latex2html also misses the smart quotes. See the > same paragraph here: > > http://docs.python.org/ref/front.html There's a way to make latex2html do "the right thing" for these, except... it then happily does so even to ` and '' (and `` and '&

Re: [Python-Dev] Minor ConfigParser Change

2007-05-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
to the code since that can increase the maintenance burden (patches can be harder to produce that can be cleanly applied to multiple versions). Are there motivations we're missing? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Minor ConfigParser Change

2007-06-01 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
to be able to say "yes, the code is painful to read, let's make it nicer", but it's hard to say that without being able to say "I'm sure it won't break anything for anybody." Python's too flexible for that to be easy. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Re: [Python-Dev] [RFC] urlparse - parse query facility

2007-06-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
n; the existing function signatures for cgi.parse_qs and cgi.parse_qsl are sufficient. It may be convenient to add methods to the urlparse.BaseResult class providing access to the parsed version of the query on the instance. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. __

Re: [Python-Dev] [RFC] urlparse - parse query facility

2007-06-15 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ts were added in 2.5, though, and I've no real idea how widely they've been adopted. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6 BaseException.message deprecation, really needed?

2007-07-07 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
_message = None @apply def message(): def get(self): return self._message def set(self, value): self._message = value return property(get, set) I think your use case is entirely reasonable, and can be handled read

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file

2007-07-12 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
f it's a zip file >seems problematic to me. I'd rather be explicit with the -z flag. >Likewise, I'd rather be explicit and call it __zipmain__ rather than >__main__. Identifying ZIP files is straightforward; there's nothing weird about this one. -Fred --

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file

2007-07-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
x users to prepend to sys.path. It should also be separate from the -z (or whatever that gets called). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file

2007-07-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Friday 13 July 2007, Anders J. Munch wrote: > How about .pyzip instead? To make it more obvious, and not mistakable for > .py.z. I guess it would be pinheaded to call it .zippy. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file

2007-07-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
People use __main__.py now? That seems bad, because __ names > are reserved, so they should just use main.py, I would think. I've seen __main__ suggested as a place to store application-specific global settings, but not for a long time. I don't think it was ever mapped di

Re: [Python-Dev] Python.org current docs

2004-11-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 02:46 pm, Thomas Heller wrote: > http://www.python.org/doc/current/ > and > http://docs.python.org/ > > still point to 2.3.4 docs. I'll be fixing that up tonight. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. __

Re: [Python-Dev] Python.org current docs

2004-11-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 02:46 pm, Thomas Heller wrote: > http://www.python.org/doc/current/ > and > http://docs.python.org/ > > > still point to 2.3.4 docs. I think everything is properly updated now. Please let me know if I've missed anything. -Fred

Re: [Python-Dev] Rewriting PEP4

2004-12-07 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
hat > should be included, but it seems an example or two would make it easy to > get right. Examples would be good, though specific wording should not be proscribed. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Python-Dev] Re: 2.3.5 delayed til next week

2005-01-17 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
? The 26th is a public holiday here, > and so that's the day that's most likely for me... Sounds good to me. Anything in that range is equally doable. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python

Re: [Python-Dev] a bunch of Patch reviews

2005-01-18 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ctions is not a backward compatibility concern. :-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] I think setup.py needs major rework

2005-01-25 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
tell setup.py > to look where they are installed. ... > This might be an excellent sprint topic for PyCon. Indeed it would be! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Moving towards Python 3.0 (was Re: [Python-Dev] Speed up functioncalls)

2005-02-01 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
GC since Windows will be convinced that the file is still open and refuse to let you delete it. To fix that, you'd have to trigger GC from the failed removal operation and try again. I think we'd find there are a lot more operations that need that support than we'd like to thi

Re: [Python-Dev] JOB OPENING: Implementor for Python and Search

2005-02-04 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
o.html for information on posting opportunities there. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib xmlrpclib.py, 1.38, 1.39

2005-02-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
time, so, again, I'd rather be conservative in what we generate. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib xmlrpclib.py, 1.38, 1.39

2005-02-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
place(microsecond=0).isoformat() > > suffices for that much. Tack on .replace('-', '') to do the whole job. Yep, that would work too. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:/

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib xmlrpclib.py, 1.38, 1.39

2005-02-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
m to be anything that describes the range of what's accepted and produced by the various XML-RPC libraries, but I've not looked hard for it. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/idlelib NEWS.txt, 1.49.2.3, 1.49.2.4 idlever.py, 1.22.2.1, 1.22.2.2

2005-03-09 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py,v > -IDLE_VERSION = "1.1.1" > +IDLE_VERSION = "1.1.1c1" Shouldn't this progress from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2c1? Otherwise it's moving backward. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/idlelib NEWS.txt, 1.49.2.3, 1.49.2.4 idlever.py, 1.22.2.1, 1.22.2.2

2005-03-09 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 12:06, Anthony Baxter wrote: > No - Py2.4 shipped with idle 1.1. I must've updated it to 1.1.1 sometime > after the 2.4 release (I vaguely recall doing this). Ah, ok. I guess I should have looked. -Fred -- Fred L

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Change 'env var BROWSER override' semantics in webbrowser.py

2005-03-18 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
uld be very helpful. Patch reviews should be written in the tracker, as always, and a summary of all the webbrowser-related patches in a single email to python-dev. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

[Python-Dev] distutils/PyPI package metadata fields

2005-03-21 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ta-Version 1.2. Some sort of Metadata-Encoding field should be included. There should also be a field for the version of Python that's required. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/command upload.py, 1.3, 1.4

2005-03-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
er. For now, you can include comments in the long description or on a project web page. A proper field will be added for this in the future (hopefully not too distant). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

[Python-Dev] Re: python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/command upload.py, 1.3, 1.4

2005-03-22 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
see uploads for two or more versions of Python (PyXML for example). Getting the metadata wrong is just too evil. Now that more people have seen the code for PyPI (and understand more of it), it'll be easier to implement new fields once they&#

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2005-03-23 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
robably be controllable via the API, if its useful at all. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

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2005-03-23 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
evelopment environment, a developer should not find difficulty to > reverse that if needed. Right. I think if the API provides a control for this and some mention is made in the documentation, that would be good. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Py

Re: [Python-Dev] C API for the bool type?

2005-03-24 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ason they were really introduced: to enhance readability. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] python.org crashing Mozilla?

2005-04-26 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
what host platforms, would be helpful. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Old Python version categories in Bug Tracker

2005-05-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Old Python version categories in Bug Tracker

2005-05-30 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
d be a way to say that certain categories/groups were marked unusable for new submissions. But that's not necessary in any way. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
is currently handled automatically. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ealize more than ever before the > importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get > transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the > context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not* > going to help PageRank of the new page.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [ Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?]

2006-02-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
sion. bytes([0, 1, 2, 3]) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] bytes type discussion

2006-02-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
from the stream with the previous encoding, but that seems like it would be pretty fragile in practice. There may be cases where switching encoding on the fly makes sense, but I'm not aware of any actual examples of where that approach would be required. -Fr

Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
f the documentation). I'm not really on either side of the fence about whether docs.python.org is the "right thing" to do; the idea came out of the folks interested in advocacy. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] bytes type discussion

2006-02-14 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
with it had not been fully spelled out). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5 PEP

2006-02-17 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
n massively swamped. python-dev topics occaissionally pop up for me, but time has been too limited to get back to the important items, like this one. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: defaultdict

2006-02-17 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
all the cases I've actually dealt with where I wanted a variation of a mapping with default values. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Counter proposal: multidict (was: Proposal: defaultdict)

2006-02-17 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
here this commonly comes up, but not the only one. > and in the process breaking an important > quality of good Python code, that attribute and getitem access not have > noticeable side effects. I'm not sure that's quite as well-defined or agreed upon as you do.

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot is all green

2006-02-19 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
; any chance we can switch to that on buildbot.zope.org as well? ;-) The improved use of horizontal space is good. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot is all green

2006-02-19 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Sunday 19 February 2006 18:07, Walter Dörwald wrote: > How about this one: > http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/python/BuildBot_%20Python.html Sigh. This is nice too. Now I'm not sure which I'd rather see on zope.org. ;-) -Fred -- F

Re: [Python-Dev] towards a stricter definition of sys.executable

2006-03-16 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
new variable, but that's minor. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
ednesday night (US Eastern time). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

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