Re: [Python-Dev] Cloning threading.py using proccesses

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Wittber
On 10/12/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would basically be something along the lines of cPickle, but would > only support the basic types of: int, long, float, str, unicode, tuple, > list, dictionary. > Great idea! Check this thread for past efforts: http://mail.python.org/p

Re: [Python-Dev] [pypy-dev] Python Software Foundation seeks mentors and students for Google Summer of Code

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Wittber
who are working on any game or multimedia related projects. As a company, this is a new area of business development which we are investigating, and we are therefore very keen to see Python develop further along these lines. -Simon Wittber ___ Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Short-circuiting iterators

2005-12-06 Thread Simon Wittber
On 12/7/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any generator specific needs that are not met by the PEP 342 > implementation? Given a choice between throw(), close(), and send(), I > would have thought that all the bases have been covered. Agreed. When the new functionality

Re: [Python-Dev] Short-circuiting iterators

2005-12-06 Thread Simon Wittber
On 12/7/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Matthew F. Barnes] Perhaps it would be a useful addition to the > itertools > > module then? > > > > itertools.interruptable(iterable) > > Any real-world use cases or compelling contrived examples? I use something like this in th

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency - cooperative MT

2005-09-30 Thread Simon Wittber
On 9/30/05, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (C) That scheduler is non-preemptive. A single > > greedy generator can starve all the others. > > Instead of looking at this as a problem, you could look at it as a > feature. Since generators can't be switched at arbitrary places, the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP for RFE 46738 (first draft)

2005-06-18 Thread Simon Wittber
> I use XML-RPC as the communications protocol between an Apache web server > and a middleware piece that talks to a MySQL database. The web server > contains a mixture of CGI scripts written in Python and two websites written > in Mason (Apache+mod_perl). Performance is fine. Give either of the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP for RFE 46738 (first draft)

2005-06-18 Thread Simon Wittber
> Why this discussion of yet another serialization format? Pickle is stated to be unsafe. Marshal is also stated to be unsafe. XML can be bloated, and XML+gzip is quite slow. Do size,speed, and security features have to mutually exclusive? No, that possibly is why people have had to invent their

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP for RFE 46738 (first draft)

2005-06-18 Thread Simon Wittber
n the standard library. Do you disagree? Simon Wittber. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] PEP for RFE 46738 (first draft)

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Wittber
lso attached (gherkin.py). Critcism and comments on the PEP and the implementation are appreciated. Simon Wittber. PEP: XXX Title: Serialization of Simple Python Types Version: $Revision: $ Last-Modified: $Date: $ Author: Simon Wittber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track P