Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Guido] > >Yes, the generator does clear its f_back when it's suspended. [Phillip] > I realize this won't fix all your worries; I just want to rule out > this one *particular* form of cycle as a possibility; i.e., to show > that mere reference to a generator-iterator in a frame does not > create a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> If Raymond would rather defer to me, I can give it a shot in a revised > version of PEP 343, Thanks, that would be great. The decimal conversation used up a lot of my available cycles. Raymond ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 12:03 PM 5/31/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Yes, the generator does clear its f_back when it's suspended. I realize this won't fix all your worries; I just want to rule out this one *particular* form of cycle as a possibility; i.e., to show that mere reference to a generator-iterator i

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Guido] > >uncertainty of the possibility to call close() from the > >destructor may have slowed that down. [Phillip] > If you're talking about the bit about __del__ not working when hanging off > a cycle, my apologies for creating that confusion, I misunderstood Tim's post. No, I'm not talking a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:12 AM 5/31/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >uncertainty of the possibility to call close() from the >destructor may have slowed that down. If you're talking about the bit about __del__ not working when hanging off a cycle, my apologies for creating that confusion, I misunderstood Tim's

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Brett C.] > > Been rather quite around here lately so I just wanted to do a quick check to > > see what the status is on PEPs 342 and 343. I noticed Nick's PEP is still > > not > > up. Probably too busy with that fix for genexps in the AST branch, huh, > > Nick? =) [Nick Coghlan] > Something

[Python-Dev] Closing old bugs

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Hettinger
There should be some greater care exercised in closing old bugs. Marking them "deprecated" and then erasing them is only a good strategy if we have no means of reproducing the error or ascertaining what the OP was talking about. For instance, in www.python.org/sf/640553 , it was possible for a re

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

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
Brett C. wrote: > Facundo Batista wrote: > >>On 5/30/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used >>>to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 >>>(unmaintained)". Whether this is des

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for dev permissions

2005-05-31 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Reinhold Birkenfeld] >> would anybody mind if I was given permissions on the tracker and CVS, > for >> fixing small >> things like bug #1202475. I feel that I can help you others out a bit > with >> this and >> I promise I won't change the interpreter to accept braces...