Re: [Python-Dev] Embedded Python startup is slow

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, James Y Knight wrote: > On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:58 AM, bruce bushby wrote: > > My main concern was that a freshly compiled Python attempts to open 168 > non-existent files before starting. > > > > I understand that an interpreted language is probably not the best c

Re: [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

I just want to chip in that, as far as syntactic sugar go, `somedict:foo` looks better than `somedict..foo`. 2c... ~/santa On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > "class attrdict" is a perennial dead-end for intermediate pythonistas who > want to save 3 characters/5 keystrokes

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: bump ast version

A revision number is, indeed, local to the working repository. A changeset ID, however is global. >From Mercurial's documentation: Revision numbers referring to changesets are very likely to be different in another copy of a repository. Do not use them to talk about changesets with other people.

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

> > [...] publishing patches by referring to a remote repository, > rather than uploading the diff. > Is this a recommended workflow at this point, or should we generate/attach patch files still? Both, for experimentation? ~/santa On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > As

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

Hi, As a mercurial user, I thank you for this effort! One question, where/how do I send suggestion to what to add into .hgignore file? In particular, I found these dynamically generated files after a build in Windows (3.2) that probably should be entered as .hgignore entries: ? PC/python_nt_d.h ?

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

>From http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Branch#Named_branches: [...] a good rule of thumb is to use branch names sparingly and for rather longer lived concepts like "release branches" (rel-1, rel-2, etc) and rather not for short lived work of single developers So I think named branches make sense

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

A Mercurial 'merge' is simply a creation of another changeset, which has two parents: the current tip of the branch you're working on, and the changeset you are merging with. ~/santa On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Feb 26, 2

Re: [Python-Dev] svn outage on Friday

Speaking of, what is the current status and timeline on the move to Mercurial? ~/santa On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Victor Stinner < victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote: > Le mardi 15 février 2011 à 09:30 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > > I'm going to perform a Debian upgrade of svn.py