Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> given that urllib2 already supports partial requests, I'm not sure I see >> the point of reimplementing this on top of httplib. an example: >> >>import urllib2 >> >>request = urllib2.Request("http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm";) >>request.add_header(

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:30:00AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > If you add protocol-specifics to urllib, the abstraction that urllib > provides goes away, and you are better off (IMO) to use the underlying > protocol library in the first place. IMO you better don't because urllib2 provides

[Python-Dev] Open CPython VM for type information

2006-12-12 Thread Kay Schluehr
Dear Python developers, while the JVM is opened to support dynamically typed languages [1] I wonder if the CPyVM could not show more openness to statically typed languages? Hereby I don't think that much about arbitrary languages for the CPyVM but sublanguages like RPython which are "static eno

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > given that urllib2 already supports partial requests, I'm not sure I see > the point of reimplementing this on top of httplib. an example: > >import urllib2 > >request = urllib2.Request("http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm";) >request.add_header("range

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I've just been putting together a podcasting doodad and have included >> resuming >> support in it. Is this something that's already in the pipeline or should I >> abstract it out to urllib and submit a patch? > > Not sure where you got the impression that 206 is "res

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Daniel Watkins schrieb: > I've just been putting together a podcasting doodad and have included > resuming > support in it. Is this something that's already in the pipeline or should I > abstract it out to urllib and submit a patch? Not sure where you got the impression that 206 is "resume"; in

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x morethan all other files?!

2006-12-12 Thread Simon Brunning
On 12/12/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is > almost entirely written in Python. (And now I can rub shoulders with > the developers since they're all Googlers now... :-) That'll put to bed any "Does Python scale"

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x morethan all other files?!

2006-12-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is almost entirely written in Python. (And now I can rub shoulders with the developers since they're all Googlers now... :-) On 12/12/06, Kurt B. Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x morethan all other files?!

2006-12-12 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The Rails buzz seems to be jumping to Python lately. > > fwiw, the people I see pick up Python haven't even heard of Ruby or > Rails (not every- one is doing web 2.0 stuff, after all). Yes, separate but related groups and issues. MIT's adopting Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread skip
Dan> I've just been putting together a podcasting doodad and have Dan> included resuming support in it. Is this something that's already Dan> in the pipeline or should I abstract it out to urllib and submit a Dan> patch? Check urllib2 before putting any effort into extending urlli

[Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Watkins
Hi guys, I've just been putting together a podcasting doodad and have included resuming support in it. Is this something that's already in the pipeline or should I abstract it out to urllib and submit a patch? Dan ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-12 Thread Steve Holden
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular >> version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems >> closer to 90/10. > > Going mainstream :-)) > > The Rails buzz seems to be jumping t

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x morethan all other files?!

2006-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > Going mainstream :-)) indeed. from what I can tell on my local market, we've "crossed the chasm" [1], and are seeing wider range of "pragmatists" adding Python to the tool chain. > The Rails buzz seems to be jumping to Python lately. fwiw, the people I see pick up Pyth