Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: Python 2.6 final next Wednesday

2008-09-28 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> Once again, I've gone through the release blocker issues and knocked >> anything that doesn't specifically affect 2.6 to deferred blocker. This >> leaves us with 7 open blocking issues. > > I n

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: Python 2.6 final next Wednesday

2008-09-28 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
Barry Warsaw wrote: Once again, I've gone through the release blocker issues and knocked anything that doesn't specifically affect 2.6 to deferred blocker. This leaves us with 7 open blocking issues. I noticed you deferred issue3723. I wonder how this "doesn't affect" 2.6 when it appears I

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-28 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> 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

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

2008-09-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I can't agree here. File handling is a fundamental operation and I > would expect something like: > for fname in os.listdir('.'): > ... if os.path.isfile(fname): > ... file(fname) > > to work for all files. I agree. However, if it fails: is the bug of the Python, or of the

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

2008-09-28 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On 9/27/08, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 s

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

2008-09-28 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Saturday 27 September 2008 19:41:50 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit : > > 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).

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-28 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Sunday 28 September 2008 02:45:14 Brett Cannon, vous avez écrit : > > 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 > > mo

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-28 Thread Steve Holden
Brett Cannon wrote: > 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