Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1

2009-03-07 Thread Gerard Flanagan
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. [...] Looks good, thanks to all involved. Two minor things: For more information and downloads, see the Python 3.1 website: http://w

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon Keynote

2010-01-22 Thread Gerard Flanagan
Guido van Rossum wrote: Please mail me topics you'd like to hear me talk about in my keynote at PyCon this year. You might like to comment on the rumored links between the Chinese Government and the Python Softwamnnn..

[Python-Dev] wiki/docs enhancement idea

2010-09-24 Thread Gerard Flanagan
I didn't know who to reply to in the previous thread. (Moving the Developer docs/ Python wiki). scraperwiki.org is a 'site scraper automater'. I threw together a script just now which scrapes certain specified pages from the python wiki and converts to something rest-like. It runs every 24hrs

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest`module (updated 2008-07-15)

2008-07-15 Thread Gerard flanagan
Ben Finney wrote: Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One option for rationalising the API would be to merely keep the shortest version of each phrase (i.e. use assert* instead of fail_unless* for the positive tests and fail_if* instead of assert_not* for the negative tests, and always drop