Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report

2010-02-10 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:03, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > What do you mean by moved? I don't it has ever moved around in the sandbox. IIRC it was moved into the sandbox from some other location at some point? Cheers, Dirkjan ___ Python-Dev mailing lis

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest: shortDescription, _TextTestResult and other issues

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Foord
On 10/02/2010 01:07, Ben Finney wrote: Michael Foord writes: On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote: I understood the point of ‘TestCase.shortDescription’, and indeed the point of that particular name, was to be clear that some *other* text could be the short description for the test

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Besides, as Barry said, classifying a bug as blocker is also a good way > to attract some attention on it. Other classifications, even "critical", > don't have the same effect. Unfortunately, not many people have privilege to change bug p

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
anatoly techtonik gmail.com> writes: > > Unfortunately, not many people have privilege to change bug properties > to attract attention to the issues. For example, this patch - > http://bugs.python.org/issue7582 is ready to be committed, it is > trivial, not a release blocker, but would be nice be

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report

2010-02-10 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/2/10 Dirkjan Ochtman : > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:03, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> What do you mean by moved? I don't it has ever moved around in the sandbox. > > IIRC it was moved into the sandbox from some other location at some point? r52858 | guido.van.rossum | 2006-11-29 11:38:40 -0600

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > Besides, as Barry said, classifying a bug as blocker is also a good way > to attract some attention on it. Other classifications, even "critical", > don't have the same effect. If done for the sole purpose of attracting attention, it's no different from spam. Opinions

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
anatoly techtonik writes: > Is it possible to make exploits out of crashers? Depends on how you define "exploit". If your definition includes denial of service, yes, crashing a server application would count. Privilege escalation is harder to achieve. The general answer is "yes", but each cas

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 10, 2010, at 01:57 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >Unfortunately, not many people have privilege to change bug properties >to attract attention to the issues. For example, this patch - >http://bugs.python.org/issue7582 is ready to be committed, it is >trivial, not a release blocker, but would

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread Olemis Lang
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Holger Krekel wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: >> Michael Foord writes: >> >>> The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of >>> class and module level setUp and tearDown. This was discussed on >>> Python-ideas

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread Olemis Lang
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, wrote: > On 10:42 pm, fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: >> >> On 09/02/2010 21:57, Ben Finney wrote: >>> >>> Michael Foord  writes: The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of class and module level setUp and tearDown. This wa

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread Olemis Lang
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Michael Foord writes: > >> I've used unittest for long running functional and integration tests >> (in both desktop and web applications). The infrastructure it provides >> is great for this. Don't get hung up on the fact that it is called >> un

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest: shortDescription, _TextTestResult and other issues

2010-02-10 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Michael Foord wrote: > On 10/02/2010 01:07, Ben Finney wrote: >> Michael Foord  writes: >>> On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote: I understood the point of ‘TestCase.shortDescription’, and indeed the point of that particular name, was to be clear th

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 385 progress report

2010-02-10 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 13:59, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > The only moving was moving a lot of the files into a lib2to3 > directory. It would be nice if the hg history could be preserved for > those files. Please see if hg.python.org/2to3 would satisfy your needs. Cheers, Dirkjan ___

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-02-10 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 14:47, Collin Winter wrote: > To follow up on some of the open issues: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Collin Winter > wrote: > [snip] >> Open Issues >> === >> >> - *Code review policy for the ``py3k-jit`` branch.* How does the CPython >>  community want us to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:24, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >>> Le Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:16:15 +0200, anatoly techtonik a écrit : I've noticed a couple of issues that 100% crash Python 2.6.4 like this one - http://bugs.python.org/issue6608  Is i

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:45:41 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Holger Krekel wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ben Finney > > wrote: > >> Michael Foord writes: > >> > >>> The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of > >>> class and mo

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread Olemis Lang
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:56 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:45:41 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Holger Krekel >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ben Finney >> > wrote: >> >> Michael Foord writes: >> >> >> >>> The next 'big' cha

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:57:31 +0200, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > Besides, as Barry said, classifying a bug as blocker is also a good way > > to attract some attention on it. Other classifications, even "critical", > > don't have the sa

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> If a committer or triage > person sets an issue to release blocker it should mean that they think > the release manager should make a decision about that issue before the > next release. That decision may well be that it shouldn't be a blocker. I think it's (slightly) worse. For the release man