Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Holden
The pyjamas author seems to have a different > opinion about installing stuff into /usr without working with the system's > packaging mechanism: > > http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue63 > > I don't understand how that can possibly be manageable. > Note

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding PEP consistent aliases for names that don't currently conform

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Holden
t.p_print and ... That way madness lies. Besides which, what a terrific opportunity to castigate the Py3k developers forever. Opportunities like that don't come by every day ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 380 (yield from a subgenerator) comments

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Holden
Maybe of you looked at the code you would find low-hanging fruit you could pick for sensible use cases. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Want to know? Come to PyCon - soon! http://us.pycon.org/ __

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 380 (yield from a subgenerator) comments

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Holden
Guido van Rossum wrote: [...] (There could be good reasons not to > complexificate it this way too.) > You've been 'Mercanized. This is the most worstest English I have ever seen you write. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 311

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 380 (yield from a subgenerator) comments

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Holden
ile the "yield from" expression's value comes from "outside" (the value passed to a .send() method call). Please forgive this bear of very little brain. I suspect the documentation will need to make this asymmetry more obvious still. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Holden
Module(__name__).filePath.parent().listdir() > > (and yes, this works with zip files) Careful, Glyph. Nobody likes a smart-ass ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http:

Re: [Python-Dev] And the winner is...

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Holden
mmer I ever >> met.) > > But is his humility enough to cancel out Linus's attitude? > All the humility in the world pales besides Linus's attitude. But that's probably just because we are all fools. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] issue5578 - explanation

2009-04-03 Thread Steve Holden
on't >> fix it." :-) > > Anything using an exec that can be done in some other (more pythonic way) > is broken by definition ;-) > > Benjamin? > We've just had a fairly clear demonstration that small semantic changes to the language can leave unexpected

Re: [Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

2009-04-04 Thread Steve Holden
s the big disadvantage of not being Microsoft-endorsed, > though. In that sense, it feels very much like easy_install (which also > does dependencies). > Not only that, but the Cygwin packaging system appears to be extremely difficult to organize a package for. regards Steve -- Steve H

Re: [Python-Dev] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Holden
hitespace in makefiles: only the fact that leading tabs were required rather than just-any-old whitespace. I guess some people just home in on things to complain about. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.c

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial?

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Holden
suring that all contributions to source are correctly logged against authors in a traceable way. regasds Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Want to know? Come to PyCon - soon! http://us.pycon.org/ __

Re: [Python-Dev] slightly inconsistent set/list pop behaviour

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Holden
gt; > You wrote a program to find the two smallest ints that would have a > hash collision in the CPython set implementation? I'm impressed. And > by impressed I mean frightened. > Given the two numbers in question (1, 2**16+1) I suspect this is the result of an

Re: [Python-Dev] slightly inconsistent set/list pop behaviour

2009-04-08 Thread Steve Holden
>> >>>>> print set([-1,6]).pop(), set([6,-1]).pop() >> 6 -1 > > Can't resist: > >>>> print set([-2,-1]).pop(), set([-1,-2]).pop() > -1 -2 > >>> a = 0.001 >>> b = 0.002 >>> print set([a, b]).pop(), set([b, a]).pop

Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Holden
the only ways to store the messages are either as a monolithic bytes string that gets parsed when the individual components are required or as a sequence of components in the database's preferred encoding (if you want to keep the original encoding most relational databases won't be able to he

Re: [Python-Dev] email package Bytes vs Unicode (was Re: Dropping bytes "support" in json)

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Holden
Tony Nelson wrote: > (email-sig added) > > At 08:07 -0400 04/09/2009, Steve Holden wrote: >> Barry Warsaw wrote: > ... >>> This is an interesting question, and something I'm struggling with for >>> the email package for 3.x. It turns out to be pretty

Re: [Python-Dev] BLOBs in Pg

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Holden
B adapters appears to require some fairly hairy escaping of the data to make it usable with the cursor execute() method. IMHO you shouldn't have to escape data that is passed for insertion via a parameterized query. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 H

Re: [Python-Dev] BLOBs in Pg

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Holden
airly deeply embedded in the PostgreSQL engine. No "syntax" should be necessary. I suppose if we have to go round again on this we should take it to email as we have gotten pretty far off-topic for python-dev. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 49

Re: [Python-Dev] BLOBs in Pg

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Holden
Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:42:21PM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> If I can't pass a 256-byte string into a BLOB and get it back without >> anything like this happening then there's *something* in the chain that >> makes the database useless

[Python-Dev] Support for Python/Windows

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Holden
MSDN site) Project/Company (Python Software Foundation) Complete Mailing Address (Street Address) (City), (State/Province) (Postal or Zip Code) (Country) Phone Number -- Tom -----Original Message- From: Steve Holden [mailto:st...@holdenweb.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 0

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for Python/Windows

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Holden
Christian Heimes wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Devs: >> >> I've been in correspondence with Microsoft about the provision of >> software, and it transpires that if you want to support Windows better >> Microsoft will be quite liberal about licensing: they wi

[Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Holden
I sent fourteen requests for licenses in to Microsoft. I've asked them to let me know which they grant (since they may choose to limit the number) and will inform you all personally when I hear their decision. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holde

[Python-Dev] MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio?

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Holden
e dev list right now I'd appreciate direct Cc's. regards Steve PS: If any further core developers need licenses, I plan to apply to Microsoft again in the new year. I'll be sending out a message then, I don't intend to keep a waiting list. -- Steve Holden +1 571 4

[Python-Dev] [Fwd: RE: [PSF-Board] Microsoft contributor agreement received?]

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Subject: RE: [PSF-Board] Microsoft contributor agreement received? Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:25:45 + From: Scott Wiltamuth To: Dino Viehland , Steve Holden CC: p...@python.org , VanL , Dave Fugate References: <1a472770e042064698cb5adc83a12acd04d90...@tk5ex14mbxc

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Holden
gt; From: Ben Hodgson > To: webmas...@python.org > > > > Hey there, > > In case you don't know, the link on http://www.python.org/download/ to > the Python 2.6.5 Mac Installer Disk Image > (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Holden
Tres Seaver wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Why is it unavoidable that the Mac build will languish behind others? >> Are we supporting MacOs or aren't we? If we are, why isn't the creation >> of the build a part of the release process? > >> Clearly it

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal <-> float comparisons in py3k.

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Holden
of such a decision *very* carefully. intuition alone (even yours, which I would back against most people's) may not suffice. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC http://www

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Holden
eks. > > That is not surprising: none of the webmaster people would be able to > answer the question. python-dev is indeed the right place to ask. > I thought I'd picked this thread off python-dev. What point am I not understanding here? regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Holden
to. > > Yes, ditto the MacPorts/Fink allergy. > > All we need is a script, right? The released branches should be built > automatically every night anyway, just for regression testing. > > Perhaps we should take this up on Mac-Python? > Please do, and let me know

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Holden
Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/04/2010 06:13, Ned Deily wrote: >> In article, >> Steve Holden wrote: >> >> >>> Why is it unavoidable that the Mac build will languish behind others? >>> Are we supporting MacOs or aren't we? If we are, why

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Holden
r. > > That is just my recollection, however - it may be out of date or wrong. > Paul. I spent some considerable effort last year ensuring the developer community was well-supplied with MS developer licenses that give access to any necessary tools. Was I wasting my time? regards Steve -- S

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147 ready for pronouncement and merging

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
e__/foo.jython-32.class`. Some implementations may >> use multiple compiled files to create the module, in which case >> `__cached__` may be a tuple. The exact contents of `__cached__` are >> Python implementation specific. >> >> It is recommended that when nothing sensib

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
some idea in order to get relevant results (e.g., > windows, windoze, window$, win32). > Yes, tight vocabulary control will lead to more consistent classifications. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
ning pieces in the > script, too, and no living person has that much expertise to write the > script (perhaps there are one or two people, and they don't have the time). > I take it you don't mean to imply that there's a dead person somewhere with the necessary expertise? [

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
the time). > > Well, God forbid they should ever be hit by a bus! This kind of thing > needs to be written down. > +1 regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for commit access

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
quot;authority" to recommend him. In such an event (or if committers are too busy to action a promising candidate) I don't see anything wrong with a candidate asking directly (as long as they are prepared to put up with a semi-public discussion of their application's merits). reg

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Groups mirror (Was: Bootstrap script for package management tool in Python 2.7)

2010-04-15 Thread Steve Holden
of presenting the content, though there is no thread subscription. Google Groups have their disadvantages too. I personally dislike "web forum" style interfaces. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.b

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
osoft Developer Network licenses to open source > projects to assist them in better supporting Windows. > >[...] > If this applies to you and you are interested, let me know. > Thanks, Brian, for taking this on. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494

Re: [Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
and that it couldn't be generated using keyword argument syntax, but I don't see why we discriminate against f(**dict(...)) to limit it to what could be generated using keyword argument syntax. Is this such a big deal? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119

Re: [Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Holden
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> I'm sure we wouldn't want to go so far as to inhibit this. (Py 3.1) >> >>>>> def f(**kwargs): >> ... kwargs[1] = "dummy" >> ... print(kwargs)

Re: [Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Holden
'll be happy to change IronPython to be more compatible. :) > > This would be a lose anyway, since the CPython specifications suggest that you should not rely on being able to change locals() (or at least shouldn't expect that such changes are actually reflected in the local namespace)

Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-17 Thread Steve Holden
pletely controlled from > the master side, and then uploading the resulting dmg file. I'd be > happy to help coordinate any experiments offline if you're interested. > > I do currently have a DMG built for 2.7 Beta 1, if it would be useful. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

2010-04-18 Thread Steve Holden
t and > convenient for 40%, would you remove it? Really? > IMO, removal of a feature which is used by 40% is out of the question; > and if removal is, deprecation is as well. > > Back to the actual numbers: dropping the argument is impossibl

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

2010-04-18 Thread Steve Holden
> | > | Both are ok for me. "-v" as a shortcut for "--version" looks wrong, though. > | "-v" is almost always used for verbosity these days. > > My view is the same. I don't expect -v to be one or the other, and I certainly don't expect th

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Holden
ad license, with activation keys for many products generated on demand. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holden

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN licenses available for python-dev

2010-04-19 Thread Steve Holden
Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 19, 2010, at 08:14 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:48, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>> Le Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:54 -0500, Brian Curtin a écrit : >>>>> The recent thr

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
me to review the way people "prove their motivation and the quality of their work"? regards Steve * I'd be against it, but I'd fight to change the development process so that adding new people *didn't* create work. We should, in m

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-26 Thread Steve Holden
ody will have to make a decision, and that > is "work". > Well, I'm sorry to have put you to the work of penning that reply, when you could have used the effort instead to triage a bug. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talk

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-26 Thread Steve Holden
omething you write in a statement. Some of the comments in this thread have seemed positively unwelcoming, even though I doubt that was the authors' intention. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 ht

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:01 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: [...] > For the record, note that both Antoine and I have been instrumental in > bringing more than one new person into both the triage and the committer > ranks. We (along with others) *are* the on

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
body would make an decision ultimately, one which both proponents > and opponents of the PEP would accept. > > Without a BDFL, I think we need a committee to make decisions, e.g. by > majority vote amongst committers. Couldn't we just go with the FLUFL? regards Steve -- Steve Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
back now). As a starting point, Barry would have to indicate whether he > is interested in that role. > If he isn't then we can depose him and replace him with a puppet. regards Steve PS: Barry: sorry I can't make the gig tonight. Hope it went well ... -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
ughout the civilized world. > The last time I was in a UK builders' yard I hear someone asking for "two meter pieces of two by four". At the time the UK was notionally metric (and the timber was planed to the nearest metric size) but the old names still survived. regards

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Holden
lease. There's plenty to do without having to fight that issue too. I'm copying this message to Rich Leland, who is currently making a study of the PSF's web requirements, to make sure this gets folded in. Many of the tasks are essentially macrogeneration, and unless automated will r

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base

2010-05-03 Thread Steve Holden
rdize all C files on a 4-spaces > indentation rule? > > I understand the "svn annotate" argument, but we edit code far more often > than we annotate it. Also, it seems "svn ann -x -w" would ignore > whitespace changes. > Let's not forget to consider what Hg

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible patch for functools partial - Interested?

2010-05-07 Thread Steve Holden
l to partial(operator.add, 2). I don't think he's > suggesting it should compare equal to partial(lambda x,y: x+y, 2). > Which absence, presumably, also mildly disappoints you? regards Steve > +0.5 on comparing equal. > +1 on a nicer repr for partial

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-23 Thread Steve Holden
n Java and > C++ and (at least in Java) it is used extensively and without too much > trouble. If there are implementation bugs then we can fix them just like > we would with any other module. > I don't see the availability of this functionality in those languages as any kind of rea

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-23 Thread Steve Holden
Jesse Noller wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > ...snip... > >>>> Issues like the ones I'm bringing up could be fixed pretty >>>> straightforwardly if it were just a matter of filing a bug on a small >>>> package,

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holden
org which would break backward compatibility. IMO it would make > more > sense to leave this module as a top-level module for now (a sibling to > "threading", "multiprocessing"). > Unless there's some way of having the two namespaces (existing and concurrent

Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix releases should not change APIs

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holden
ys seems to happen when the rule is broken; 2) But we may wish to release 3.1.2.1(?) which backports fixes from the 3.2 line but retains the file store semantics (which I am assured will be easy in the glorious reign of Hg). Surely some compatible "shim" layer could have been intro

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
ypothetical 2.8 development team. > How does throwing away information represent "moving forward"? I have to say I am surprised by the current lack of momentum behind 3.x, but I do know users who consider that their current investment in the 2.x series is unlikely to migrate to 3

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
lopment community we decided to change the language. Now we have to do what we can to ensure that the changed language has appropriate support. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/9/2010 10:42 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>> Steve Holden wrote >>>> How does throwing away information represent "moving forward"? > > 'Closing' a tracker issue does not 'throw away' information', it *a

Re: [Python-Dev] Future of 2.x.

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Holden
e all that pent up energy focussed on doing whatever we can to help > people transition to Python 3. > Though one might ironically suggest that sticking to the policy actually represents a change in policy :) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Holden
ibrary support, and they are the guys who see the issues day in day out so it is hard to argue with them (and I don't think an autocratic decision-making process would be appropriate). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.

Re: [Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
channel is just > a signpost pointing at an empty room. > Which is yet another reason I don't think it would be productive to attempt any kind of pre-emptive action against the #python team. They do serve a very useful purpose, and there is reasoned logic behind their position even if we mig

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Support in 3.x (Was: email package status in 3.X)

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
and would like to tap your developer creativity in helping to define how the Foundation can effectively commit more developer time to Python. GSoC and GHOP are great examples, but there is plenty of room for all sorts of initiatives that result in development opportunities. I'd like to hel

Re: [Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
atter as the > other thing. > > > Thanks again for everyone's input on all of python-dev, #python, > #python-offtopic, > Laurens > And thanks for engaging so directly and responsively. The Python community has impressed me again with its maturity. regards

Re: [Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Holden
ly need to make this move. > > I agree we have to make it at some point but I feel this is way, way too > early. > > thanks for your continued input, > Laurens But it's never too early to plan for something you know to be inevitable. More planning might have helped ear

Re: [Python-Dev] #Python3 ! ? (was Python Library Support in 3.x)

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Holden
a problem - they could probably be done at a gross level). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holde

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Holden
ake a major step forward. This won't be a campaign with a victorious charge over some imaginary finish line. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.

Re: [Python-Dev] "2 or 3" link on python.org

2010-06-24 Thread Steve Holden
Stephen Thorne wrote: > On 2010-06-25, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Am 25.06.2010 01:28, schrieb Stephen Thorne: >>> Steve Holden Wrote: >>>> Given the amount of interest this thread has generated I can't help >>>> wondering why it isn'

Re: [Python-Dev] docs - Copy

2010-06-24 Thread Steve Holden
nal list (not copies of those objects). A deep copy would need to copy any referenced lists, and so on. > Can this be updated? Or someone explain to me why it's correct? > It sounds correct to me. regards Steve > Cheers > > Example: > > >>>> t = [1, 2, 3] >&g

[Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
2 due out? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ "All I want for my birthday is anothe

Re: [Python-Dev] thoughts on the bytes/string discussion

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
to actually be a performance issue, you > can always deal with it later, with a custom string type." I'm > confident that in *most* cases, it would not be. > Well that would be a nice win. > Anyway, this may be a serious issue, but I increasingly feel like I'm > veeri

Re: [Python-Dev] docs - Copy

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
thon. > > No no no. [...] It isn't always easy to tell, but I think Martin meant "no". regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
work for me. If schedule slips in any way, we'll have > to move the release into end-of-September (but the days as proposed are > fine). > > Regards, > Martin A six-week slippage wouldn't be good. What's the relevant chaos theory when a one- or two-day hold lead

Re: [Python-Dev] "2 or 3" link on python.org

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
to what version >> to download. > > Ah, ok. No, nobody has taken ownership of that project, and likely, > nobody actually will - unless you volunteer. > Or perhaps spur the pydotorg community on with some well-placed encouragement. Nobody ever seems to say "thanks" to t

Re: [Python-Dev] Schedule for Python 2.6.6

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Holden
Regards, > Martin I suppose for 2..6. it's not really critical. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS

Re: [Python-Dev] Signs of neglect?

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Holden
Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Benjamin Peterson > wrote: >> 2010/6/25 Steve Holden : >> I would call it more a sign of no tests rather than one of neglect and >> perhaps also an indication of the usefulness of those tools. > > Less t

[Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
ily just do a timing of test_mailbox under 2.6 and 3.2, to verify they see the same disparity as me? The test takes about twice as long under 3.1 here (and I am concerned that unexercised aspects of the code may extend real-world problem run times by an order of magnitude or more). regards St

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
> Nick. > Thanks for all the timings! If a Windows user could do the same thing that would help ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.co

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Command line: ./python -m test.regrtest -v test_mailbox >> >> trunk: Ran 274 tests in 25.239s >> py3k: Ran 268 tests in 26.263s >> >> So I don't see any substantial difference on a Kubuntu 10.04 box (both >

Re: [Python-Dev] what environment variable should contain compiler warning suppression flags?

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
ithout going crazy. I agree - trying to step through -O2 optimized code isn't going to help debug your code, it's going to help you debug the optimizer. That's a very rare use case. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See Python Video!

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> I will leave the profiler output to speak for itself, since I can find >> nothing much to say about it except that there's a hell of a lot of >> decoding going on inside mailbox.iterk

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
Steve > - use that for the rest of the code > > --Guido > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >> A.M. Kuchling wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >>>> I will leave the profiler output to speak for itself, si

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:54:09 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> A.M. Kuchling wrote: >>> But should mailboxes really be opened in a UTF-8 encoding, or should >>> they be treated as 7-bit text? I'll have to think about this. >> Neit

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:02:14 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> - wrap the binary stream in a text stream >> "wrap" how? The ultimate destiny of the text is twofold: > > I would imagine Guido i

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests?

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Holden
nging this up years ago. I think that > "unexpected" is a bad term and should be renamed to reflect the fact > that the test was skipped because an optional third-party package was > not included. A "dependency skip", perhaps? > Or simply output why a certain tes

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
x27;s innards. http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-adding-a-new-statement-to-python/ regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunit

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
ve to > see about that. > And, as always, a way to get better insight and help speed the process along is to join the cast ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://p

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
about, I wonder if you couldn't > write one decent patch instead of ten complaining mails, and make both > you and us happier in the process. > +1 That's the spirit, Georg. Anatoly, I had an email along these lines saved pending transmission, but I have deleted it now. Let'

Re: [Python-Dev] Are you ready for Mercurial migration?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
tweeting "tweet me for an invite to the wave") is that you have to persist, and learn different habits for each set of collaborators. I suppose I should approve of it on account of how it improves geek social skills. If the wave were to result in good documentation about how to *get* ready th

Re: [Python-Dev] Are you ready for Mercurial migration?

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
atoly's) messages >> constructive and insightful. To me it looks like they are wasting the >> aggregate signal to noise ratio. >> >> Antoine. >> >> >> ___ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:55:56 -0400 > Steve Holden wrote: >> Fred Drake wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>>> The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules. >>>> They ha

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
hout a >>> proliferation of mirrors/repos/etc. >>> >>> Also, we're not staying on subversion - well, as far I know. >> At least not parallel to Mercurial. Definitely. >> >> Georg > > Well, I was worried I missed a meeting in the secret clubhouse

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
ause a change in another > one, then certainly that's a sign that they should be in the same > repo. > > But for the windows issue, using subrepo so that when you clone python > repo, you get the exact same versions of C libraries as used for the > official msi (tk, tcl, op

Re: [Python-Dev] Licensing // PSF // Motion of non-confidence

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Holden
ast to simplify the license of Python > but this would require agreement from the current rights owners > including CWI and CNRI. IIRC not all of the rights owners are willing > to agree to a change. > That is the current position. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Holden
>> will cost. > > I would be happy to relicense it under the Python license. > I believe the ideal outcome, if it is possible, is for you to sign a contributor agreement. This will license your material to the PSF in such a way that we can release it under whatever lice

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Holden
mat__ can be set appropriately. See: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42 > That is _so_ Python 2 ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://p

Re: [Python-Dev] Can ftp url start with file:// ?

2010-07-09 Thread Steve Holden
I see no reason to introduce the > 2.x behaviour into Python 3. > > So I'd say there's nothing to do. > Paul. This /could/ become a bugfix in 2.7.x if people thought it was a sufficiently egregious bug to need fixing. Given that the matter is only now coming to light it's proba

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