Re: [Python-Dev] Order of operations

2007-08-30 Thread Greg Ewing
Jason Orendorff wrote: > I think the weirdness comes from parsing -a/b as (-a)/b rather than > -(a/b). This will sort of be fixed in 3.0, at least for /, because it will always mean float division, for which -(a/b) == (-a)/b. You'll have to use // to get weirdness, then. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Comp

[Python-Dev] Notification of assignment in new tracker

2007-08-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Erik just fixed the tracker so that the Assigned-to person gets email for any message added to an issue. However, *no* email is sent if one merely changes the Assigned-to field. Sending a message for every status change would cause significant amounts of spam, so mere status changes are performed

Re: [Python-Dev] Building Python with CMake

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 13 July 2007 16:11, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > On 13/07/2007 20.53, Facundo Batista wrote: > >> as I wrote in my previous email, I'm currently porting Python to some > >> more unusual platforms, namely to a super computer > >> (http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/) and a tiny embedded operat

Re: [Python-Dev] HAVE_DECL_TZNAME in pyconfig.h.in, but no test for it ?

2007-08-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> in current python svn there is a > #undef HAVE_DECL_TZNAME > but I can't find a configure test for it. > Did I miss something ? Perhaps that it is generated through autoheader? pyconfig.h.in was last generated by autoconf 2.61, and configure by autoconf 2.59. I have now made sure that the trun

[Python-Dev] HAVE_DECL_TZNAME in pyconfig.h.in, but no test for it ?

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, in current python svn there is a #undef HAVE_DECL_TZNAME but I can't find a configure test for it. Did I miss something ? Bye Alex ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] Order of operations

2007-08-30 Thread Jason Orendorff
On 8/29/07, Dirkjan Ochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: > > C doesn't have an exponentiation operator. You use the pow() function, > > instead: > > Wouldn't it make more sense, then, to have unary +/- have higher > precedence than the ** operator, so that -3**2 == 9?