On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Sturla Molden wrote:
>> Terry Reedy:
>
>> MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty
>> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to
>> do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW.
>>
>> http
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Case Vanhorsen wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>>> What external modules are there that rely on existing hash behaviour?
>>
>> I'm only
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Case Vanhorsen wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>>>> Making hashes of int,
>>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> Making hashes of int,
>> float, Decimal *and* Fraction all compatible with one another,
>> efficient for ints and floats, and not grossly inefficient for
>> Fractions and Decimals, i
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:49 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Several questions come to mind:
>>
>> 1) Is it reasonable to provide backward compatibility files (either as
>> .h or .c) to provide support to new API calls to extension authors?
>
> I'm skeptical. In my experience, each extension has
Hello,
When I ported gmpy (Python to GMP multiple precision library) to
Python 3.x, I began to use PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow frequently. I
found the code to slightly faster and cleaner than using PyLong_AsLong
and checking for overflow. I looked at making PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow
available to Pytho
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> IMHO, that's not really a good way to encourage people to try to provide
>> a smooth upgrade to the 3.x branch. Much to the contrary. 3.x should make
>> it easier for developers by providing more standard helpers like
>> the removed int
>On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Peter Moody wrote:
> The pep has been updated with the excellent suggestions thus far.
>
> Are there any more?
Thanks for writing the PEP.
I tried a few of the common scenarios that I use at work. Disclaimer:
my comments are based on my work environment.
I was s
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> We could remove it, but then what we have wouldn't really be a release
>>> candidate anymore, so the release would get delayed.
>>
>> How long do release candidates soak in the field before being accepted?
>
> For this release, the rele
