[Python-Dev] Windows 2000 Support

2011-05-01 Thread Brian Curtin
I'm currently writing a post about the process of removing OS/2 and VMS support and thought about a discussion of Windows 2000 some time back. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.html makes a proposal for beginning to walk away from 2000, but doesn't appear to come to any

Re: [Python-Dev] Not-a-Number (was PyObject_RichCompareBool identity shortcut)

2011-05-01 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/1/2011 7:27 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: However, I did find Terry's suggestion of using the warnings module to report some of the floating point corner cases that currently silently produce unexpected results to be an interesting one. If those operations issued a FloatWarning, then users could

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.2.1

2011-05-01 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On May 1, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > I'd like to release Python 3.2.1 on May 21, with a release candidate > on May 14. Please bring any issues you think need to be fixed in it > to my attention by assigning "release blocker" status in the tracker. Thanks to http://www.python.org/

[Python-Dev] Python 3.2.1

2011-05-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Hi, I'd like to release Python 3.2.1 on May 21, with a release candidate on May 14. Please bring any issues you think need to be fixed in it to my attention by assigning "release blocker" status in the tracker. Georg ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue Tracker

2011-05-01 Thread Georg Brandl
On 30.04.2011 16:53, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM, R. David Murray > wrote: >> >> The hardest part is debugging the TAL when you make a mistake, but >> even that isn't a whole lot worse than any other templating language. > > How much in % is it worse than Django te

Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3 status, repositories and HACKING guide

2011-05-01 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2011/5/1 anatoly techtonik : > Is there any high-level overview of 2to3 tool that people can use as a > quick start for writing their own fixers? No. > > Source doesn't explain much (to me at least), and some kind of "learn > by example" would really help a lot. In particular, I find the syntax o

Re: [Python-Dev] Not-a-Number (was PyObject_RichCompareBool identity shortcut)

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Decimal, for that reason, has a context that lets one specify > different behaviors when a NaN is produced. Would it make sense to add > a float context that also lets one specify what should happen? That > could include returning Inf for

Re: [Python-Dev] 2to3 status, repositories and HACKING guide

2011-05-01 Thread anatoly techtonik
Is there any high-level overview of 2to3 tool that people can use as a quick start for writing their own fixers? Source doesn't explain much (to me at least), and some kind of "learn by example" would really help a lot. In particular, I find the syntax of tree matchers the most unclear part. -- an