Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-29 Thread Casey Duncan
On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark's position is different. His words suggest that he thinks that > Python.org owes the users something, although if pressed I imagine > he'd present some argument that more users will lead to development of > a better language. I thin

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-26 Thread Casey Duncan
On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Xavier Morel wrote: > On 26 Mar 2010, at 18:40 , Casey Duncan wrote: >> >> >> On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:19 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: >> >>> At 11:57 AM 3/26/2010 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>> But they're not

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-26 Thread Casey Duncan
On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:19 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: > At 11:57 AM 3/26/2010 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> But they're not -- they're *signals* for "your calculation has gone screwy >> and the result you get is garbage", so to speak. You shouldn't even think of >> a specific NAN as a piece of specif

Re: [Python-Dev] In late this am

2009-08-03 Thread Casey Duncan
Heh, wrong dev list 8^). Sorry for the noise. -Casey On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Casey Duncan wrote: Going to the Dr., will be in thereafter. -Casey ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

[Python-Dev] In late this am

2009-08-03 Thread Casey Duncan
Going to the Dr., will be in thereafter. -Casey ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed: drop unnecessary "context" pointer from PyGetSetDef

2009-05-08 Thread Casey Duncan
On May 4, 2009, at 3:10 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: I should have brought this up to python-dev before--sorry for being so slow. It's already in the tracker for a couple of days: http://bugs.python.org/issue5880 The idea: PyGetSetDef has this "void *closure" field that acts like a conte

Re: [Python-Dev] Things to Know About Super

2008-08-29 Thread Casey Duncan
On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Michele Simionato wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The mixin methods in the ABC machinery would be a lot less useful without multiple inheritance (and the collections ABCs would be a whole lot harder to define and

Re: [Python-Dev] Relocating Python

2008-07-29 Thread Casey Duncan
On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Lupusoru, Razvan A wrote: Hello, I am trying to get Python 2.5.2 working for an IA32 system. The compilation is done on an Ubuntu 8.04.1 dev system. I am using a custom gcc and ld specific to the IA32 system. This is my makefile: #