Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1

2009-01-28 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > I think that both 3.0 and 2.6 were rushed releases. 2.6 showed it in the > inclusion (later recognizable as somewhat ill-advised so late in the > day) of multiprocessing; 3.0 shows it in the very fact that this > discussion has become necessar

Re: [Python-Dev] Grammar change in classdef

2006-09-16 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
> That was my first thought as well. Unfortunately a quick test shows > that class Foo(): creates an old style class instead :( I think that's because until it'll be safe to break things we will stick with classic by default... -- Lawrence http://www.oluyede.org/blog _

Re: [Python-Dev] Grammar change in classdef

2006-09-16 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
> I think that this change should be presented at > http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html It's already listed there: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/other-lang.html -- Lawrence http://www.oluyede.org/blog ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] BZ2File.writelines should raise more meaningful exceptions

2006-08-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
> Always post patches -- that way they can't get lost. *THEN* post to > python-dev with your analysis and explanation (which you presumably also > included with the patch), starting with a link to the patch. Thanks for the hint. This is the link: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta

[Python-Dev] BZ2File.writelines should raise more meaningful exceptions

2006-08-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
In the BZ2File object of bz2 module the writelines() method does not check its closed state before doing the actual work so its behavior it's different from write()'s behavior. See: from bz2 import BZ2File f = BZ2File("foo", "w") f.close() f.closed 1 f.write("foobar") Traceback (most recent c

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

2006-07-20 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
> Should be faster than an IBAC model since certain calls will not need to > check the identity of the caller every time. > > But I am not worrying about performance, I am worrying about correctness, so > I did not try to make any performance claims. Got that. > Nope. Have not started worrying a

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

2006-07-20 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
That's great. I just read your draft but I have little comments to do but before let me say that I liked the idea to borrow concepts from E. I've crossed the E's path in the beginning of this year and I found it a pot of really nice ideas (for promises and capabilities). Here are my comments about