Re: [Python-Dev] Quick access to Python bug reports in Thunderbird

2005-02-27 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:45:37PM -0500, Alan McIntyre wrote: > Martin, > > Thanks; that works very well (in Firefox, too). I got it to work > for patches, but the URL is a bit uglier (like this: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=$&group_id=5470&atid=305470). > I assume t

Re: [Python-Dev] os.removedirs() vs. shutil.rmtree()

2005-01-08 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:45:25PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Is there a reason the standard library needs both os.removedirs and > shutil.rmtree? They seem awful similar to me (I can see they aren't really > identical). Ditto for os.renames and shutil.move. Presuming they are all > really n

Re: [Python-Dev] Website documentation - link to descriptor information

2004-12-24 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:41:20PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I just spent 10 minutes hunting through the Python website for this link: > http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html > > I knew it was there somewhere, I just couldn't find the darn thing. > > It turns out the major mistake I made was

Re: [Python-Dev] Latex problem when trying to build documentation

2004-12-21 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:57:43PM +0100, Irmen de Jong wrote: > >Looks like the end tag of {description} has disappeared with this > >check-in: > > [...] > > Out of curiousity, how did you find this? Once you filter through all the noise LaTeX generates there's actually a pretty clear error mes

Re: [Python-Dev] Re:[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Pythonmarshal.c, 1.79, 1.80

2004-12-21 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:00:22PM +0100, Irmen de Jong wrote: > Thanks for those suggestions. > Let's see what I can concoct. > > Never made (or studied in detail) a python regression test case > before so now is a good time :) You might be especially interested in 'class urlopen_HttpTests' in t

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/test test_shutil.py, 1.10, 1.11

2004-12-07 Thread Johannes Gijsbers
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:54:50PM +, Michael Hudson wrote: > Is that really the best way to check for root? It may be, I guess, > but I'd have expected os.geteuid() to be more reliable... Ah yes, I suppose it is. I'll change it tomorrow night if no Unix-guru steps up with an alternative solu