Re: [Python-Dev] Milestones in IronPython

2008-08-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week >> with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4. But it's not our code that >>

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues

2008-08-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
FWIW, the rest of this discussion is now happening in the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue3300. We could really use some feedback from Python users in Asian countries. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Milestones in IronPython

2008-08-07 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week > with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4. But it's not our code that > makes this release so remarkable -- it's yours, the Python developers. > Fo

[Python-Dev] Milestones in IronPython

2008-08-07 Thread Curt Hagenlocher
We reached an important milestone in the IronPython project this week with the release of IronPython 2.0 beta 4. But it's not our code that makes this release so remarkable -- it's yours, the Python developers. For the first time, Microsoft is including the standard Python library as part of what

Re: [Python-Dev] small PATCH to fix os.fsync on OS X

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Charnas
OK I finished a patch that exposes os.fullfsync on platforms that support it, and I added the corresponding documentation in Doc/library/os.rst Any comments? http://bugs.python.org/issue3517 -ian On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Ian Charnas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent comments, every

Re: [Python-Dev] small PATCH to fix os.fsync on OS X

2008-08-07 Thread Ian Charnas
Excellent comments, everyone. It looks like I didn't know the full situation, thanks scott for pointing me towards that email on darwin-dev. The email said that fsync on OS X does indeed force a flush from the operating system to the hard drive (so my earlier understanding was incorrect), but da

Re: [Python-Dev] small PATCH to fix os.fsync on OS X

2008-08-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I can't think of a situation where it would be useful to do an fsync() > in which you don't want the data to be flushed as far as possible. Essentially, you are saying that you don't see a use for fsync. If that's the case, then this API should be removed from Python completely. As all others h

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues

2008-08-07 Thread Matt Giuca
Wow .. a lot of replies today! On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:09 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It hasn't been given priority: There are currently 606 patches in the > tracker, many fixing bugs of some sort. It's not clear (to me, at least) > why this should be given priority over al