Re: [Python-Dev] call for help: C-API 2 to 3 porting guide

2008-09-27 Thread Haoyu Bai
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> I remember a while back we were bemoaning the fact that little >> documentation exists for the extension module transition between 2.x >> and 3.x. In the name of this effort, I'

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if a Python security team does exist. I sent an email > about an imageop issue, and I didn't get any answer. Later I learned that a > security ticket was created, I don't have access to it. >

Re: [Python-Dev] I would like an Python account

2008-09-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Would it possible to get more permissions on Python bugtracker, especially to > add keywords, close a duplicate bug, etc.? > > I also would like an SVN account for Python trunk and Python 3000 branch. I > know that

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> I am thinking of organizing a panel this year for python-dev (much >> like the one I organized in 2007). Who would be willing to be on the >> panel with me if I did this? > > If you're looking for the

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Benjamin Peterson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: > >> You sit in front of a bunch of people answering questions asked by the >> audience. You know, a panel. =) It's just a Q&A session so that PyCon >> attendees can ask python-dev a bunch of random ques

Re: [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

2008-09-27 Thread Simon Cross
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:41 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for 3.0, I'd like to argue that the problem is a minor issue. Even > though you may run into file names that can't be decoded, that happening > really indicates some bigger problem in the management of the system > w

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-27 Thread Josiah Carlson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, I would like to help to fix all Python security issues. It looks like > Python community isn't very reactive (proactive?) about security. Eg. a DoS > was reported in smtpd server (integrated to Python)... 15 months

Re: [Python-Dev] json decoder speedups, any time left for 2.6?

2008-09-27 Thread Bob Ippolito
simplejson 2.0.0 is now released which is about as optimized as I can be bothered to make it. It's about 4x faster than cPickle for encoding and just a little slower and decoding, which is good enough for now ;) The pure Python source is much uglier now (to avoid global lookups, etc.), but also sev

Re: [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

2008-09-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I think that the problem is important because it's a regression from 2.5 to > 2.6/3.0. Python 2.5 uses bytes filename, so it was possible to > open/unlink "invalid" unicode strings (since it's not unicode but bytes). I'd like to stress that the problem is *not* a regression from 2.5 to 2.6. A

[Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I would like to know if a Python security team does exist. I sent an email about an imageop issue, and I didn't get any answer. Later I learned that a security ticket was created, I don't have access to it. First, I would like to access to these informations. Not only this issue, but all s

Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3 and reST text format

2008-09-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As I remember, last month 2to3 was able to fix my reST documentation > using "-d" option. But trunk version fails to parse my reST documents. Should > I run fsck on my brain or is it really a regression? Looks li

[Python-Dev] 2to3 and reST text format

2008-09-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, As I remember, last month 2to3 was able to fix my reST documentation using "-d" option. But trunk version fails to parse my reST documents. Should I run fsck on my brain or is it really a regression? Short example: - Title = Some text before the example: >>> print

Re: [Python-Dev] I would like an Python account

2008-09-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Would it possible to get more permissions on Python bugtracker, especially to > add keywords, close a duplicate bug, etc.? +1 In the time Victor has been contributing, he's found copious amounts of bugs and cont

[Python-Dev] I would like an Python account

2008-09-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Would it possible to get more permissions on Python bugtracker, especially to add keywords, close a duplicate bug, etc.? I also would like an SVN account for Python trunk and Python 3000 branch. I know that both branches are near "frozen" and commit are only allowed after patch review and/

Re: [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

2008-09-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Saturday 27 September 2008 14:04:25 Victor Stinner, vous avez écrit : > I read that Python 2.6 is planned to Wednesday. One bug is is still open > and important for me: Python 2.6/3.0 are unable to use filename as byte > strings. http://bugs.python.org/issue3187 Ooops, as amaury noticed, the pr

Re: [Python-Dev] call for help: C-API 2 to 3 porting guide

2008-09-27 Thread Christian Heimes
Benjamin Peterson wrote: Hi guys, I remember a while back we were bemoaning the fact that little documentation exists for the extension module transition between 2.x and 3.x. In the name of this effort, I've created a c porting howto (Doc/howto/cporting.rst). I have started a few sections, but I

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Brett Cannon wrote: You sit in front of a bunch of people answering questions asked by the audience. You know, a panel. =) It's just a Q&A session so that PyCon attendees can ask python-dev a bunch of random questions. Demystifies some things and puts faces to python-dev. and using moderator.a

Re: [Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

2008-09-27 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hello Victor, 2008/9/27 Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I read that Python 2.6 is planned to Wednesday. One bug is is still open and > important for me: Python 2.6/3.0 are unable to use filename as byte strings. >http://bugs.python.org/issue3187 [...] Is it really a 2.6 problem?

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Benjamin Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I am thinking of organizing a panel this year for pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Eric Smith
Brett Cannon wrote: I am thinking of organizing a panel this year for python-dev (much like the one I organized in 2007). Who would be willing to be on the panel with me if I did this? If you're looking for the perspective of someone who's relatively new to Python core programming, I'll do it.

[Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

2008-09-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I read that Python 2.6 is planned to Wednesday. One bug is is still open and important for me: Python 2.6/3.0 are unable to use filename as byte strings. http://bugs.python.org/issue3187 The problem === On Windows, all filenames are unicode strings (I guess UTF-16-LE), but on UN

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals

2008-09-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Benjamin Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro