Re: [Python-Dev] Request for inclusion in 2.5.2 (5-for-1)

2007-11-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 11/2/07, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2-Nov-07, at 6:57 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Since people are already jumping on those bugs but nobody has voiced > > an opinion on your own patch, let me say that I think it's a good > > patch, and I want it in 2.6, but I'm reluctant to

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for inclusion in 2.5.2 (5-for-1)

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Klaas
On 2-Nov-07, at 6:57 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Since people are already jumping on those bugs but nobody has voiced > an opinion on your own patch, let me say that I think it's a good > patch, and I want it in 2.6, but I'm reluctant to add it to 2.5.2 as > it goes well beyond a bugfix (addin

[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-11-02 Thread Tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/26/07 - 11/02/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1315 open (+15) / 11541 closed (+21) / 12856 total (+36) Open issues with patches: 417 Average durati

Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

2007-11-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 11/2/07, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fred Drake wrote: > >>@property > >>def attribute(self): > >>return 42 > >> > >>@property.set > >>def attribute(self, value): > >>self._ignored =

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for inclusion in 2.5.2 (5-for-1)

2007-11-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 10/31/07, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Issue http://bugs.python.org/issue1663329 details an annoyance in the > subprocess module that has affected several users, including me. > Essentially, closing hundreds of thousands of file descriptors by > round-tripping through the python excep

Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

2007-11-02 Thread Duncan Booth
Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred Drake wrote: >>@property >>def attribute(self): >>return 42 >> >>@property.set >>def attribute(self, value): >>self._ignored = value > > Hmmm... if you were allowed general lvalues as the target

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for inclusion in 2.5.2 (5-for-1)

2007-11-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
Mike Klaas wrote: > http://bugs.python.org/issue1705170: reproduced. Conjecture as to > why it is occurring, but I don't know the guts well enough to propose > a decent fix. I've fixed this on the trunk (I'm afraid I have no opinion on the patch you're interested in though. Neal - where do