Josiah Carlson wrote:
Is mmap's inability to be subclassed a feature or bug?
No.
It's a missing feature: it's not a bug, because nobody says this should
work, and anybody trying will find out that it doesn't work, so nobody
is tricked into believing it should work. The mmap type is not even
documen
Paul Moore wrote:
OK, I've got a copy of the Python sources, and had a look. The change
needed to msi.py to include libpythonXX.a in the installer looks
simple. But I'm less sure as to where to build the file. It seems to
me that msi.py is not the right place - that's focused on building the
instal
Quick questions:
Is mmap's inability to be subclassed a feature or bug?
Is one's inability to use a = mmapinstance.__setslice__;a(1,2,'a') (and
others) a feature or bug?
I would imagine they are bugs, but I just wanted to make sure and post
the report/request in the proper location.
Thank you,
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:57:00 +0100, Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
> > For a starter, what steps do you actually take to build a release? I
> > assume that the first step is to build Python, by clicking on "build"
> > in VS.NET.
>
> Yes. You can skip this step by ju
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:20:18 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One possible marketing strategy is to use the adjective "fast" in a
> broader sense. The Python slogan could be something like: "Programming
> has never been any faster" -- this changes the playing ground, from
> raw p
> > FWIW, the tests at issue pass on WinXP for me today w/ current CVS.
Tests pass here too.
Raymond
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Raymond, says test_glob and test_urllib fail on WinME now]
>
> [Andrew MacIntyre]
> >> I don't see any possible way for those checkins to affect any platform
> >> other than OS/2.
> >>
> >> 2 of the files are platform specific files (PC/os2emx/getpath.c,
>
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I was pleasantly surprised to find a pointer to this article in a news
digest that the ACM emails me regularly (ACM TechNews).
http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/28026-1.html
One thing that bugs me: the article says 3 or 4 times that Python is
slow, each time with a refut
[Raymond, says test_glob and test_urllib fail on WinME now]
[Andrew MacIntyre]
>> I don't see any possible way for those checkins to affect any platform
>> other than OS/2.
>>
>> 2 of the files are platform specific files (PC/os2emx/getpath.c,
>> PC/os2vacpp/getpath.c), and the checkin to Modules/
