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On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
Why not name it testutils?
Heh. And what's the difference between *utils, *tools, and *lib?
They all sound the same to me. :-(
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On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
If it's about silencing warnings, then how about putting it in the
warnings
module?
That sounds good to me, and would be very reasonable. This would make
a nice context manager.
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are content maintainers for the Mac content (including
installation packages of whatever form), then python.org is the right
place for it. Presumably //someone// is creating those now, right?
If they could upload them to python.org and update the pages
accordingly, that should be no worse tha
y clean!) Python installations.
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from twiddling with PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add
the /opt tree to my environment in order to get compiles/tools to play
nice.
I'd go so far as to say that any reliance on LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a bad
idea, since it's horribly fragile. But I do link in
since I added the option
umpteen gazillion years ago.)
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o drop .tgz since it didn't really make sense
to have both .tgz and .tar.bz2, and the software to handle .tar.bz2 is
widely deployed.
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On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
I intend to set things up so that the docs at docs.python.org are
continually
rebuilt, just like the /dev docs were until now.
Wonderful! This should help avoid repeat reports of simple typos.
At one point, we started to separate the documenta
On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
All Sphinx-generated pages currently have a "last update on:" in the
footer.
Do you think that suffices for this purpose?
Yes, I do.
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On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
b) I would propose that the notion of a default encoding is entirely
eliminated from Python, along with sys.(get|set)defaultencoding
+1
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quirements that the type's C code
demands.
It's good to move work into __init__ where reasonable, so that it can
be avoided if a subclass wants it done in a completely different way,
but new can't work that way.
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:36 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first
> implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would
+1
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27;s decision on the direction keep you from
managing your own projects the right way. :-)
In fact, it's reasonable to fix bugs on the release26-maint branch,
migrate the patch to the trunk, and then use svnmerge.py from there to
propagate the
t's known to be compatible with
("has been tested with"). I'd love for this to be available, and
would be more proactive about testing software I've been involved in
releasing against more Python versions.
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On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
There is. There have been the following trove classifiers defined for
a few weeks now:
Wonderful! Thanks for clueing me in. I'll update my projects to use
those in future releases.
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it
manually.
I think this is a significant issue, since editing that property is
about as error-prone as it can be. I've not really looked at the code
in svnmerge.py, so I'm not sure how hard it would be to fix.
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case:
If this is sufficient to drive a release, then whatever test there is
should be part of the release as well.
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I think either
Command-line option- and argument-parsing library.
or
Command-line option and argument parsing library.
would be acceptable.
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
> I'll throw this out there.. why is it going to have a different name on
> python2 than on python3?
So it can be a drop-in replacement for the existing distutils2, I'd expect.
"packaging" is new with Python3, and is the Guido-approved name
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> It's actually for the same reason that unittest changes are backported
> under the unittest2 name - the distutils2 name can be used in the
> future to get Python 3.4 packaging features in Python 3.3, but that
> would be difficult if the backp
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> pERSONNALLY, i THINK THAT A SWAPCASE COMMAND IS ESSENTIAL FOR TEXT EDITOR
> APPLICATIONS, TO AVOID THOSE LITTLE cAPS lOCK ACCIDENTS.
There's a better solution to that, but the caps lock lobby has a stranglehold
on keyboard manufacturers.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:
> I think it would make more sense to
> push 2.x-compatible and 3.x-compatible sdists to PyPI (with an
> appropriate 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2' or '3' classifier) and
> have the download tools be smart.
FWIW, I prefer this as well.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Persistence layers like ZODB and cross interpreter communication
> channels used by multiprocessing may (!) rely on the fact that the hash
> of a string is fixed.
ZODB does not rely on a fixed hash function for strings; for any applicatio
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
> So, don't be afraid to change that hash function :)
Definitely.
The hash function *has* been changed in the past, and a lot of developers
were schooled in not relying on the iteration order. That's a good thing,
as those developers now writ
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> Besides, in
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-December/114812.html
> Stefan Behnel said "[...] Today, ET is *only* being maintained in the
> stdlib by Florent Xicluna [...]". Is this not true?
I don't know. I took this to
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> The initial proposal of changing *the stdlib
> import facade* for xml.etree.ElementTree to use the C accelerator
> (_elementtree) by default.
I guess this is one source of confusion: what are you referring to an
an "import façade"? When I l
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM, PJ Eby wrote:
> I wish Gmail defaulted to reply-all in the edit box.
There's a lab for that. :-)
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> That doesn't mean the web designer shouldn't think at least twice
> before specifying a smaller font than the browser default.
Yet 90% of designers (or more) insist on making text insanely small, commonly
specifying the size in pixles or
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> There are bad designers, or more to the point, designers who favor the
> overall look of the page at the expense of the utility of the page. That
> doesn't mean all designers are bad, or that "design" is bad. Don't throw
> out the baby wit
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> There is in the since that you can follow the HTML5 algorithm, which
> can "parse" any junk you throw at it.
This whole can of worms is why I gave up on HTML years ago (well, one
reason among many).
There are markup languages, and there
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Developer Developer
wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to do the following?
...
> Otherwise I think we are scanning rawdata[j:] twice.
Yes, that would be better, and avoids a string object creation as well.
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On Tuesday 05 April 2005 15:53, Evan Jones wrote:
> This functionality is provided by a flush() method on similar objects,
> such as the zlib compression objects.
Or by close() on other objects (htmllib, HTMLParser, the SAX incremental
parser, etc.).
Too bad there's more than one way to do it.
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:47, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Also, to help with institutional memory, I started a log of changes to
> developer permissions. The goal is to remember who was given access, by
> whom, and why (some folks are given access for a one-shot project for
> example). The f
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Eric Price
Eric Price was an intern at CNRI; I think it's safe to remove him from the
list, as I've not seen anything from him in a *long* time.
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On Friday 08 April 2005 09:53, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> Eric Price did some of the work on the decimal package, which was only
> two summers ago. He wasn't an intern at CNRI.
A different Eric Price, then. Mea culpa.
(Or am I misremembering the intern's name? Hmm.)
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