Re: [Python-Dev] io.BufferedReader.peek() Behaviour in python3.1

2009-06-20 Thread Greg Ewing
Lucas P Melo wrote: Am I understanding this correctly: * The blocking version would not do any raw reads. No, the blocking version would keep doing raw reads until the buffer contains enough bytes. -- Greg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] draft pep: backwards compatibility

2009-06-20 Thread Terry Reedy
gl...@divmod.com wrote: On 07:06 pm, pyt...@rcn.com wrote: Not sure why we need yet another pep on the subject. Just update PEP 5 if needed. I agree. The draft covers the same ground. Two PEPs on the same subject would be redundant where they agree but would create confusion where they do

Re: [Python-Dev] draft pep: backwards compatibility

2009-06-20 Thread Collin Winter
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: [snip] > Backwards Compatibility Rules > = > > This policy applys to all public APIs.  These include the C-API, the standard > library, and the core language including syntax and operation as defined by > the > r

Re: [Python-Dev] draft pep: backwards compatibility

2009-06-20 Thread glyph
On 19 Jun, 09:08 pm, benja...@python.org wrote: 2009/6/19 : On 02:09 pm, benja...@python.org wrote: 2009/6/19 �: �What about side-effects, or exceptional conditions? �What about interactions with subclasses?  (Changing a class in a library from old-style to new-style has serious re

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpc improvements

2009-06-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> I think you really need to get Fredrik Lundh to comment on it. If he >> can't predict when he'll be able to review the changes, maybe he can >> accept releasing control of xmlrpclib. > > Pointer to the patch? http://bugs.python.org/issue6267 While I have your attention, p

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpc improvements

2009-06-20 Thread Fredrik Lundh
2009/6/20 "Martin v. Löwis" : >> I‘d really  like to get this stuff in.  The performance gains allowing >> http1.1 and gzip for xmlrpc are quite significant. > > I think you really need to get Fredrik Lundh to comment on it. If he > can't predict when he'll be able to review the changes, maybe he c

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpc improvements

2009-06-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I‘d really like to get this stuff in. The performance gains allowing > http1.1 and gzip for xmlrpc are quite significant. I think you really need to get Fredrik Lundh to comment on it. If he can't predict when he'll be able to review the changes, maybe he can accept releasing control of xmlrpc