Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 06.02.2012 00:01, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Feb 05, 2012, at 02:25 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >>The reason 3.2.3 is so soon is the need to patch the hash collision attack. > > Also remember that we are coordinating releases between several versions of > Python for this issue, some of whic

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package

2012-02-05 Thread Eric Snow
On Feb 5, 2012 5:36 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" wrote: > > Paul Moore wrote: >> >> On 4 February 2012 11:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> It strikes me that it would be helpful sometimes to programmatically >>> recognise "preview" modules in the std lib. Could we have a recommendation >>> in PEP 8 th

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): remove unused import

2012-02-05 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 06.02.2012 01:39, schrieb Brett Cannon: > I'm going to assume pylint or pyflakes would throw too many warnings on > the stdlib, but would it be worth someone's time to write a simple > unused import checker to run over the stdlib on occasion? I bet even one > that did nothing more than a regex s

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): remove unused import

2012-02-05 Thread Brett Cannon
I'm going to assume pylint or pyflakes would throw too many warnings on the stdlib, but would it be worth someone's time to write a simple unused import checker to run over the stdlib on occasion? I bet even one that did nothing more than a regex search for matched import statements would be good e

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package

2012-02-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Paul Moore wrote: On 4 February 2012 11:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: It strikes me that it would be helpful sometimes to programmatically recognise "preview" modules in the std lib. Could we have a recommendation in PEP 8 that such modules should have a global variable called PREVIEW, and non-pre

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 05, 2012, at 02:25 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >The reason 3.2.3 is so soon is the need to patch the hash collision attack. Also remember that we are coordinating releases between several versions of Python for this issue, some of which are in security-only mode. The RMs of the active st

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer

2012-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
Blockheads Oi Oi writes: > I would like to give it another go. Welcome back. Your signature shows the name “Mark Lawrence”. It would help with initial impressions if your ‘From’ field, instead of the pseudonym currently shown, shows your name. Could you please change it to that? -- \

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Nick Coghlan wrote: > Because Apple wasn't publishing versions of gcc-llvm that miscompile > Python when those releases were made. More importantly, Apple removed gcc-4.2 with the current versions of Xcode 4 and the Pythons installed by our current installers require gcc-4.2 to b

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:45 AM, wrote: > >> I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly broken >> releases.  Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly new either. >>  Another few weeks can't make that much of a difference. > > > Why would the release be truly broken?

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Ned Deily
In article <20120205204551.horde.ncdeyvnncxdpltxvnkzi...@webmail.df.eu>, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: > > I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly > > broken releases. Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly > > new either. Another few weeks can't make that

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread martin
I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly broken releases. Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly new either. Another few weeks can't make that much of a difference. Why would the release be truly broken? It surely can't be worse than the current release

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Ned Deily
On Feb 5, 2012, at 20:25 , Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2012/2/5 Ned Deily : >> In article , >> georg.brandl wrote: >>> +Bugfix Releases >>> +=== >>> + >>> +- 3.2.1: released July 10, 2011 >>> +- 3.2.2: released September 4, 2011 >>> + >>> +- 3.2.3: planned February 10-17, 2012 >> >>

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2012/2/5 Ned Deily : > In article , >  georg.brandl wrote: >> +Bugfix Releases >> +=== >> + >> +- 3.2.1: released July 10, 2011 >> +- 3.2.2: released September 4, 2011 >> + >> +- 3.2.3: planned February 10-17, 2012 > > I would like to propose that we plan for 3.2.3 and 2.7.3 immediatel

Re: [Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

2012-02-05 Thread Ned Deily
In article , georg.brandl wrote: > +Bugfix Releases > +=== > + > +- 3.2.1: released July 10, 2011 > +- 3.2.2: released September 4, 2011 > + > +- 3.2.3: planned February 10-17, 2012 I would like to propose that we plan for 3.2.3 and 2.7.3 immediately after PyCon, so approximately M

Re: [Python-Dev] Volunteer

2012-02-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/5/2012 12:44 PM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote: You may remember me from a couple of years ago when I was trying to help out with Python. Unfortunately I trod on a few toes. I now know why. I have been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at 55 years old. I would like to give it another go. Hi Mark,

[Python-Dev] Volunteer

2012-02-05 Thread Blockheads Oi Oi
You may remember me from a couple of years ago when I was trying to help out with Python. Unfortunately I trod on a few toes. I now know why. I have been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at 55 years old. I would like to give it another go. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. __