Re: [Python-Dev] New python developer

2007-11-15 Thread Neal Norwitz
On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can also help on win32 specific development. As an example, I find > that the distutils module don't work very well with the new compilers. > I won't be of much help on Unix, though. We need more help on Windows! Most

[Python-Dev] Last chance for PyCon talk & tutorial proposals!

2007-11-15 Thread David Goodger
Thanks to all the proposal authors so far, we have received lots of proposals for PyCon talks & tutorials. But we'd like to have even more. Alas, the proposal submission deadline should have been set after a weekend, not before. So we have decided to extend the proposal submission deadline to Mon

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello, I'm the other new guy

2007-11-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Nov 15, 2007 1:43 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I feel left out. I have only one child and I don't qualify as > > 'strange' by any stretch of the imagination... Sometimes I think I'm > > the only regular guy working on Python. ;-) > > Gosh! Your ne

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello, I'm the other new guy

2007-11-15 Thread Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum wrote: > I feel left out. I have only one child and I don't qualify as > 'strange' by any stretch of the imagination... Sometimes I think I'm > the only regular guy working on Python. ;-) Gosh! Your new beard definitely puts you in the strange guys category. I'm astonished that yo

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello, I'm the other new guy

2007-11-15 Thread Terry Jones
> "Guido" == Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guido> I feel left out. I have only one child and I don't qualify as Guido> 'strange' by any stretch of the imagination... Sometimes I think I'm Guido> the only regular guy working on Python. ;-) Ah well, that explains a lot! :-) Anyo

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello, I'm the other new guy

2007-11-15 Thread Thomas Heller
Facundo Batista schrieb: > 2007/11/14, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> After Amaury introduced himself I've decided that I *have* to take some >> time to introduce myself, too. It's probably too late to say welcome to both Christian and Amaury, also we have already met in the bug track

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello, I'm the other new guy

2007-11-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Nov 15, 2007 1:17 PM, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: I smiled when I saw your introductions. Amaury: I also have > 5 children, and Christian: I'm also a 'strange' guy (but not > metal and gothic). I feel left out. I have only one child and I don't qualify as 'strange' by any st

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Addition: First-class Procedure Signatures

2007-11-15 Thread Steven Bethard
On Nov 14, 2007 1:18 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007 10:30 AM, Isaac Morland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I wrote a Signature class. Instances of the class represent all the > > information present between the parentheses of a procedure definition. > > Properties

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Addition: First-class Procedure Signatures

2007-11-15 Thread Brett Cannon
On Nov 15, 2007 8:42 AM, Isaac Morland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > As Collin already pointed out, it sounds like you want PEP 362 to get > > into the stdlib. I have not made a big push to try to get my existing > > implementation into Python 2.6/3.0,

[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-11-15 Thread Tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/08/07 - 11/15/07) 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. 1330 open (+19) / 11604 closed (+26) / 12934 total (+45) Open issues with patches: 425 Average durati

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Addition: First-class Procedure Signatures

2007-11-15 Thread Isaac Morland
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Isaac Morland wrote: > 1. For the "name" attribute of the Parameter object, I think it needs to > be str | tuple(str) | tuple(tuple(str)) | : No, that's still wrong. I think it needs to be T, where T == str | tuple(T). Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru DC 25

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Addition: First-class Procedure Signatures

2007-11-15 Thread Isaac Morland
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Brett Cannon wrote: > As Collin already pointed out, it sounds like you want PEP 362 to get > into the stdlib. I have not made a big push to try to get my existing > implementation into Python 2.6/3.0, but I plan to at some point. Yes, it had not occurred to me to check the