Fred Drake wrote:
On Jun 25, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
This places new key/value pairs into a dictionary, in this case
test.globs. Unfortunately when the execution results in a class
definition, it'll have its __module__ attribute set to '__builtin__'.
Tr
Hi there,
I've just witnessed an interesting consequence of the way doctest works.
I ran into an issue when doctesting an aspect of SQLAlchemy, where the
following guard clause tripped me up:
# In the normal call flow, a request for any of the 3 basic collection
# types is transformed
Georg Brandl wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> [ Bug http://python.org/sf/1541585 ]
>>
>> This seems to be handled like a security issue by linux distributors,
>> it's also a news item on security related pages.
>>
>> Should a security advisory be written and official patches be
>> provided?
>
> May
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "Chris S" wrote:
>
>> and while most users and the w3 spec
>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315#NoNSPrefixRewriting)
>> agree this feature is actually a bug
>
> ET's not a canonicalization library, and doesn't claim to be one, so that
> reference isn't
> ver
Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>
>>A while ago there was some discussion about including
>>elementtree in the std lib. I can't remember what the
>>conclusion about that was, but if it does go ahead,
>>I'd like to suggest that it be reorganised a bit.
>>
>>I
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
[snip]
> in my experience, any external library that supports more than one
> Python version on more than one platform is likely to be more robust
> than code in the core. add the multilevel volunteer approach de-
> described by Steven (with the right infrastructure, things li
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 08:22 AM 12/11/04 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
BTW I strongly disagree that making easy .EXE binaries available will
address this issue; while not bundled, there are plenty of solutions
for maning .EXEs for those who need them, and this is not something
that typically wor
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
[snip]
fwiw, IDG's Computer Sweden, "sweden's leading IT-newspaper" has a
surprisingly big Python article in their most recent issue:
PYTHON FEELS WELL
Better performance biggest news in 2.4
[snip]
Perhaps the message getting out is actually that Python's performance i
Guido van Rossum wrote:
[snip]
One thing that bugs me: the article says 3 or 4 times that Python is
slow, each time with a refutation ("but it's so flexible", "but it's
fast enough") but still, they sure seem to harp on the point. This is
a PR issue that Python needs to fight -- any ideas?
One thin
