Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Introduce importlib.util.ModuleManager which is a context manager to

2013-05-30 Thread Alfredo Solano
Hi, What about ModuleProxy? From the dictionary: prox·y /ˈpräksē/ Noun The authority to represent someone else, esp. in voting. A person authorized to act on behalf of another. Synonyms deputy - representative - agent - substitute Alfredo On 05/30/2013 10:34 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: On 29/0

Re: [Python-Dev] A decade as a core dev

2013-04-19 Thread Alfredo Solano Martínez
As an average python user, thank you for your commitment, and keep up the good work! Alfredo On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 18, 2013, at 07:34 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>Normally you should break a buildbot as a celebration :) > > Or do a release and go on vacat

Re: [Python-Dev] The end of 2.7

2013-04-07 Thread Alfredo Solano Martínez
I think the question average python users have is "What's in it for me?". While the guts have undergone lots of changes, from the outside it is mostly perceived as the unicode-by-default and the print function. As per Bret's talk at pycon [1], speed is roughly the same, which is great, considering

Re: [Python-Dev] [Announcement] New mailing list for code quality tools including Flake8, Pyflakes and Pep8

2013-04-04 Thread Alfredo Solano Martínez
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > Hey Alfredo, > > We do not currently have any tools to do that, but it would definitely > be something interesting to discuss and maybe design on the list. I'm > sure there are static analysis tools for the C part and I'm sure we as > a communi

Re: [Python-Dev] [Announcement] New mailing list for code quality tools including Flake8, Pyflakes and Pep8

2013-04-03 Thread Alfredo Solano Martínez
Hi, Are you planning to cover the code quality of the interpreter itself too? I've been recently reading through the cert.org secure coding practice recommendations and was wondering if there has is any ongoing effort to perform static analysis on the cpython codebase. Thanks, Alfredo On Wed, A

[Python-Dev] A bit about the GIL

2013-03-31 Thread Alfredo Solano Martínez
Hi, I know this may be tiresome by now, so feel free to ignore, but I'd like to share with the list an idea about the GIL, more specifically the reference counting mechanism. Simply put, make the reference counter a sharded one. That is, separate it into several subcounters, in this case one for