Re: [Python-Dev] PEP476: Enabling certificate validation by default

2014-10-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 13 Oct 2014 08:58, "Guido van Rossum" wrote: > > I see no reason to hold up this PEP's approval any longer, so I hereby approve PEP 476. It looks like a fair amount of work is still needed to backport this to Python 2.7 (and a smaller amount for 3.4) but I trust that this will all happen before

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP476: Enabling certificate validation by default

2014-10-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
I see no reason to hold up this PEP's approval any longer, so I hereby approve PEP 476. It looks like a fair amount of work is still needed to backport this to Python 2.7 (and a smaller amount for 3.4) but I trust that this will all happen before the next releases of these two. Congrats Alex! On F

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-12 Thread Ray Donnelly
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Victor Stinner wrote: >> >> Hi, > > [SKIP] >> >> === MinGW >> >> Some people tried to compile Python. See for example: >> https://bitbucket.org/puqing/python-mingw >> >> We even got some patches: >> http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 (rejected)

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-12 Thread Roumen Petrov
Paul Moore wrote: On 10 October 2014 17:28, Mark Lawrence wrote: There are 55 open issues on the bug tracker with mingw in the title. It's not easy to tell, but on a spot check a fair proportion of them seem to be about distutils/extension builds. And a lot of the rest are related to http://b

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-12 Thread Roumen Petrov
Victor Stinner wrote: Hi, [SKIP] === MinGW Some people tried to compile Python. See for example: https://bitbucket.org/puqing/python-mingw We even got some patches: http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 (rejected) [SNIP] As "all in one" patch it was rejected , but you could find splits: 17605 -

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.2.6, Python 3.3.6

2014-10-12 Thread Georg Brandl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 3.2.6 and 3.3.6. Both are security-fix releases, which are provided source-only on python.org. The list of security-related issues fixed in the releases is given in