Re: [Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices

2010-09-18 Thread John Nagle
le service which botched it. Python libraries should strive to deliver textual data to the programmer in clean Unicode. If someone needs the underlying wire representation it should be available, but not the default.

Re: [Python-Dev] Add PEP 444, Python Web3 Interface.

2010-09-15 Thread John Nagle
ordering? What problem does this\ solve? John Nagle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 85, Issue 71

2010-08-24 Thread John Nagle
ect. Something like class foo(object) : pass attrdict = { a : 1, b : 2} make_object(foo, attrdict) This covers most of the use cases for "setattr". John Nagle ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 84, Issue 112

2010-07-24 Thread John Nagle
-manuals/python-policy/"; This keeps the system updaters from becoming confused, and reduces the risk that an update to one version of Python will break another version. John Nagle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Set the namespace free!

2010-07-22 Thread John Nagle
portunity for an attack similar to SQL injection. Think about what this can do to a parser that has and calls a method "display" for each element: You are pwned. John Nagle ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] importlib

2010-07-15 Thread John Nagle
times will get worse as the JIT compiler cranks, but run time will (hopefully) decrease. John Nagle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-13 Thread John Nagle
arge numbers of users than IDLE. IDLE is useful, but not critical. Given limited resources, it's necessary to cut back in some areas. I'd vote IDLE off the island. John Nagle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-26 Thread John Nagle
On 6/26/2010 7:44 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Michael Foord wrote: On 26/06/2010 07:11, John Nagle wrote: We have just released a proof-of-concept implementation of a new approach to thread management - "newthreading". The import * form is cons

[Python-Dev] [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-26 Thread John Nagle
limbing. This may in time become a Python Enhancement Proposal. We'd like to get some experience with it first. Try it out and report back. The SourceForge forum for the project is the best place to report problems. John Nagle ___