Re: [Python-Dev] Simple syntax proposal: "not is"

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Holden
x27;t sound strong enough to change a > programming language's grammar. > > While I promise you I will remain -1 on the proposal simply because it > doesn't serve any programmer's goals, you've piqued my curiosity -- > can you give an example of what your t

Re: [Python-Dev] trunc()

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Holden
your test values. That was when I found out that MySQL (5.0.41, anyway) doesn't implement the INT() function. What was I saying about standards? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ __

Re: [Python-Dev] trunc()

2008-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
rning a value of the same type as the input? int(), being a call to a type, should never return a value of another type. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _

Re: [Python-Dev] TIOBE Programming Community Index

2008-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
ere you have it. > """ Python is TIOBE's Language of the Year for 2007 Python moves up from 8 to 6 in TIOBE's list of popular programming languages Published: Fri, 18 Jan 2008, 10:30 -0500 """ From http://python.org/, with a link to th

Re: [Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Holden
output. >> Writing to stdin would be wrong, since it's usually read-only, even >> when connected to a terminal. > > Nowadays, it often is writable I've found, but we still shouldn't assume that. > regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1

Re: [Python-Dev] trunc()

2008-01-28 Thread Steve Holden
his thread could be truncated. It's got me going round and round. I'm completely floored, and will doubtless end up barking mad - you know, like a ceil. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___

Re: [Python-Dev] trunc()

2008-01-29 Thread Steve Holden
ts lack attributions for the quotes. I see from your headers you have, at least some of the time, been posting via gmane using "mirapoint webmail direct", whatever that is. Perhaps that's the problem? sticking-with-t'bird-despite-its-f

Re: [Python-Dev] trunc()

2008-01-29 Thread Steve Holden
classes were moved into the background. A brief scan of the 2.4 library (the nearest to hand) shows no uses of int() without an argument in the top level modules. There's clearly no point calling int() with a literal integer argument, so its uses for conversion clearly dominate its use as a p

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker marks my messages as spam :-)

2008-02-01 Thread Steve Holden
at's a low S/N ratio. Even without the digital signature overhead it is still 89 characters from a total of 648 ... it's quite possible that's why his messages are being misinterpreted. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 626

Re: [Python-Dev] Any tips to tell sprinter at PyCon about developing on Windows?

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Holden
;s good to see that the whole burden no longer falls on Tim and Martin. Does VS2008 (Express) coexist peacefully with VS2005, which I need to retain for certain client projects? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http:

Re: [Python-Dev] svn repo out of disk?

2008-02-11 Thread Steve Holden
o be a temporary) fix by deleting files. Looks like we need to be a little more aggressive with that policy until the replacement machine (due int he next month or two) arrives. Or perhaps we should just add a new disk immediately and relocate some stuff? regards Steve -- St

Re: [Python-Dev] svn repo out of disk?

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Holden
Aahz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008, Steve Holden wrote: >> Douglas Napoleone wrote: >>> Not sure if this is effecting the core svn repository or not, but the >>> conference software (also hosted at svn.python.org) is reporting that >>> the disk is full: >>

Re: [Python-Dev] dir() and __all__

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Holden
27;Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue'] >> >> I like the second one better. >> >> >> Raymond >> ___ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >&g

Re: [Python-Dev] trunk-math

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Holden
e goals here (discussion is ongoing). But I hope > that the rest of the changes are uncontroversial enough to merit > consideration for possible inclusion in 2.6/3.0. > > Thoughts? > Only one: if this stunning plethora of improvements is likely to benefit by you and Christian having acc

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
r to be "Accepted", "Someday/Maybe", "Design decision needed", "Ready for checkin" and "Unreviewed". OK. maybe "triage" wasn't such a good name for for a four-state condition, but it serves a useful purpose and helps people understa

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
because nobody had time to pay them any attention in six months - nor bugs neither, come to that. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
Virgil Dupras wrote: > On 2/18/08, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure we should be throwing RFE's away with such casual abandon >> just because nobody had time to pay them any attention in six months - >> nor bugs neither, come to tha

Re: [Python-Dev] small Grammar questions

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Holden
, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def eggs((a, )=2.1): ... pass ... >>> Oops. 'def eggs((a, )=(2.1,

Re: [Python-Dev] small Grammar questions

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: [...] > The one that surprised me was the legality of > > def eggs((a, )=c): > pass > > That just seems like unpacking-abuse to me. > Needless to say, a call that tries to *use* the default value fails horribly, as the parameter form doe

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Holden
t; and fixed for a bug report. > That sounds eminently sensible. So sensible there should be documentation that tells us to do that. Drat it, where's Brett Cannon when you need him? :-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC

Re: [Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Holden
#x27;t really see > why the necessity of b'' should be seen as opening the flood gates > to backport everything without regard to whether it makes Py2.6 better. > It certainly doesn't seem to have the same urgency for cases where 2to3 can unambiguously do

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Holden
r team (not necessarily all committers) could help us improve quality and reduce the issue count. Deleting issues purely on grounds of age is simply throwing away useful information to reduce a numeric metric that doesn't really relate directly to quality, and quality assurance is the real poin

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed revision of PEP 3 (using the issue tracker)

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Holden
y seen the phrase 'works for me' to mean agreement of a >> proposed action of some sort. >> >> Maybe something along the lines of 'can not reproduce' would be better? > > I have to agree with Ron. I honestly thought "works for m

Re: [Python-Dev] No releases tonight

2008-02-29 Thread Steve Holden
u can hold off from committing to > that branch for a little while longer, that would be appreciated. I > will cut 3.0a3 tomorrow (Saturday) as early as possible. > > time-to-start-drinking-ly y'rs, Barry: If you can document the web stuff you have to do I will formalize i

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
to their inappropriate nature by our closeness to and familiarity with them, and I think a major effort to revise their structure (and to a lesser degree their content) could pay itself back many times over in increased user friendliness. Georg's recen

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation reorganization [was: ... for ability to execute zipfiles & directories]

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
repeat the same material in different contexts (hopefully by including some common documentation source rather than laborious and error-prone copy-and-paste). Document things where people expect to find them. (Now *there's* a usability study screaming to be done ... and SoC is coming up). reg

Re: [Python-Dev] Compiler used to build Python for Windows

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
tool chain like Mingw and one with the latest and greatest MS production line. Unfortunately the problem seems to be developer effort. For a long time only Martin and Tim were serious about the Windows platform, and I can appreciate (some of) the extra effort that parallel development platforms wou

Re: [Python-Dev] Compiler used to build Python for Windows

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
Steven Bethard wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christian Heimes wrote: >> > Bob Kline wrote: >> >> Any possibility of revisiting this question (upgrading to a more recent >> >> compiler for W

Re: [Python-Dev] Compiler used to build Python for Windows

2008-03-05 Thread Steve Holden
itself without the occasional library compatibility issue), and more freely available. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] BSDDB3

2008-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
nnot say how it is licensed to the PSF for redistribution, nor do I know whether Oracle's acquisition of SleepyCat will affect future versions. Bet it gave the MySQL guys some sleepless nights, though. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LL

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.0 buildbots all red

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Holden
Trent Nelson wrote: >>> New sprint idea: getting all (inc. trunk) the buildbots green by >> Thursday. Anyone interested? >> >> I think the chance to achieve that is close to zero. > > Sounds like a challenge if ever I've heard one -- care to wager a beer on it? > (Only applies to buildbots that

Re: [Python-Dev] First green Windows x64 buildbots!

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
Then put the picture on your screen and SEND ME A SCREENSHOT! regards Steve Neal Norwitz wrote: > Great work Trent! You'll need to take a picture of Martin buying you > the beer once you get the rest green. :-) > > n > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
Leif Walsh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This strikes me as a gratuitous API change of the kind Guido was >> > warning about in his recent post: "Don't change your APIs incompatibly >> > when porting to Py3k" >> >> This seems compelling t

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

2008-03-20 Thread Steve Holden
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I'll note that I use easy_install *only* to work in *non-system* >> locations: if I want to install Python packages to /usr/lib/python2.x/, >> I use the standard system installer, e.g. 'apt-get install >> python-frobnatz'. > > This is probably not

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-22 Thread Steve Holden
ge or other sites with special > download mechanisms > > * scan websites for links > > * make coffee, clean the house, send the kids to school :-) > But a package that *would* do this could be immensely popular. >> And of course, there are still some issu

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Holden
e in order to get a satisfactory translation into 3.0. Once you start editing 3.0 source you have to either leave the 2.X world behind or accept a dual-source development. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.c

Re: [Python-Dev] string representation of range in 3.0

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
;repr" consumption of the values? "The next couple of elements" is a dangerous thing to use unless you don't mind them disappearing. And the last one's right out - you;d end up storing lists anyway! regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 H

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Holden
te and read. (And making it a regex match would be > even cooler.) > In which case assertRaisesMatching (and then eventually assert_raises_matching) might be a better name for it? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ __

Re: [Python-Dev] unscriptable?

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Holden
and direct error message like "Illegal use of [] subscripting/indexing"? one-more-coat-for-the-bikeshed-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] socket.try_reuse_address()

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Holden
Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: Maybe it would be better considering Windows CE systems too: - if os.name == 'nt' + if os.name in ('nt', 'ce') Cygwin? I don't know how Unix-like it is. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 4

Re: [Python-Dev] shal we redefine "module" and "package"?

2008-04-30 Thread Steve Holden
stribution". -1 Zooko who doesn't mind stirring up trouble on occasion... regards Steve who doesn't mind trouble but would rather see communications improve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

2008-05-02 Thread Steve Holden
where to put it ;-) On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [much good sense] regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Optimization of Python ASTs: How should we deal with constant values?

2008-05-08 Thread Steve Holden
de with an assignment which would make a name be recognized as local? If you're worried about "yield" disappearing you should also be worried about assignments disappearing, since that might cause names to be interpreted as glob

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding start to enumerate()

2008-05-12 Thread Steve Holden
cial applications to number checks in batches, from a starting point that depends on the number of checks issued in previous runs. Having a start point would allow this to be done more simply, though it's not anyway what I would call an onerous task. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding start to enumerate()

2008-05-13 Thread Steve Holden
ongue out of your cheek immediately. I am beginning to feel somewhat uncomfortable on your behalf. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

Re: [Python-Dev] platform module testing

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Holden
nux. AFAIK the patch hasn't been applied yet. See http://bugs.python.org/issue1322 Contributor agreement? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Holden
he given platforms. I would like "being able to call a wide range of native libraries" to be a Python claim on all platforms, even when the native libraries are platform-proprietary. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Unaccompanied Patch

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Holden
ahamh, 2008-05-19 23:49 Updated + doc -> reST That was quick. I'm not in a position to svn update were I am. Looks like someone's paying attention, though. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Holden
an that we need access to the Sun compiler or that the Sun compiler has bugs which prevent ctypes from compiling? I don't think anyone's mentioned Solaris in this context, but there are claims that libffi "doesn't build" for AIX and HP-UX. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] optimization required: .format() is much slower than %

2008-05-29 Thread Steve Holden
()" 100 loops, best of 3: 0.454 usec per loop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ python -m timeit "'%s' % ''" 1000 loops, best of 3: 0.0715 usec per loop (times are a bit variable at this very moment since I have a few different apps open) Me too. Timin

Re: [Python-Dev] Finishing up PEP 3108

2008-05-31 Thread Steve Holden
") worked. It would be even handier if help(if) worked, but that's a syntax problem, and it would be a horrendous one to overcome, I suspect. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

Re: [Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Holden
"salvaging" it. It's going to be too tricky to convert using 2to3 otherwise. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing l

Re: [Python-Dev] bug or a feature?

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Holden
havior to complain if it stopped working. Basically retaining this behavior is pandering to people who have ignored the language specification! regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ __

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000-checkins] r64217 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib: bsddb/test/test_associate.py bsddb/test/test_join.py bsddb/test/test_lock.py bsddb/test/test_thread.py idlelib/rpc.py idle

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Holden
the new one too? It does seem that change was a little precipitate. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] r64407 - python/trunk/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

2008-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
Perhaps we need a split between "networking technologies" and "network-based applications". regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Community buildbots and Python release quality metrics

2008-06-26 Thread Steve Holden
eport it and the core developers ignore the reports, that's something that should be rectified. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] repeated keyword arguments

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Holden
, saying that "a" is given twice. is this a bug or a feature? -tomer ___ 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/guido%4

Re: [Python-Dev] [issue3214] Suggest change to glossary explanation: "Duck Typing"

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Holden
sattr() to determine method availability, while not strictly "look before you leap" because it doesn't test for a specific type, certainly isn't EAFP either. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC

Re: [Python-Dev] UCS2/UCS4 default

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Holden
ers of a string is going to be an extremely inefficient operation. Surely it's desirable under all circumstances that len(u) == sum(1 for c in u) and that [c for c in u] == [c[i] for i in range(*len(u))] How would that play under Jeroen's proposed change? regards Steve -- St

Re: [Python-Dev] UCS2/UCS4 default

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Holden
lpful to many people (including myself). regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Py2.6 with the -3 option

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Holden
it". The stdlib is definitely broken if it raises warnings of that kind. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] Running Py2.6 with the -3 option

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Holden
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Benjamin Peterson wrote: Yes, indeed. We should make sure, however, that the changes in the 2.6 libraries are the absolute minimum to get the job done. (I'm trying to pretend like

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Holden
the failure of the test, not the specific exception that is raised to fail it. Or would you prefer tests that raise other exceptions to succeed? The exception type is an implementation detail, and a fairly unimportant one as far as the purpose of testing goes. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Holden
Antoine Pitrou wrote: Let's split hairs a little... Steve Holden holdenweb.com> writes: "Fail" isn't a negative. As Guido said, it's a description of the test behavior under particular circumstances. In most circumstances, "fail" is a negative word def

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Holden
uch less natural way of expressing the condition, and (for all I know) might even introduce an extra negation operation. "is not" is, I believe, treated as a single operator. > [...] regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 4

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest's redundant assertions: asserts vs. failIf/Unlesses

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Holden
e wrong decision is better than no decision, and I suspect most if us can agree that it's better if everyone thinks about tests the same way. Otherwise test code is difficult to understand for some of its user population. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 31

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-13 Thread Steve Holden
Tim Peters wrote: [Michael Foord] ... Adding the following new asserts: ... assertNotIs (first, second, msg=None) [Steve Holden] Please, let's call this one "assertIsNot". +1 I know it's valid Python to say if a not is b: Nope, that's a syntax error

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
e obvious pattern set by the others, in the interest of matching Python's 'is not' grammar. Well, I'd have said "in the interest of reading correctly in English", though I have to acknowledge this may not be an issue for many Python users whose first language not is Engli

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
ry course): >>> isinstance(type, object) True >>> isinstance(object, type) True This is a classic property of general object hierarchies based on metaclasses. I remember teaching the SmallTalk-80 equivalent to M.Sc. studnets in the early 1980s, though the detail

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest`module (updated 2008-07-15)

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Holden
ssing some subtlety? 2.5.1 says: >>> isinstance(unittest.TestCase, type) True Also, are there any expected benefits from making this change in 2.7? What will the module do differently? It seems like a risky change for zero-benefit. Better revert it, then :-) But easier to just drop t

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-15 Thread Steve Holden
themselves are doubly negative. assert* methods are so much more straightforward to comprehend. I think this is where I came in. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Holden
er my code to use the updated module you have changed the API. Test code is particularly sensitive to such changes. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Holden
ng_as_a_container. Or something equally trivial. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] No beta2 tonight

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Holden
is myself but a) I'm not the obvious candidate and b) I'm too busy to give it my attention now. If someone wanted to tackle this, it might help getting people testing for the next beta, and also to recruit more testers in the long-term. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1

Re: [Python-Dev] Fuzzing bugs: most bugs are closed

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Holden
nless you can find a way to add the checks without slowing it down, an external checker might be better. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Infix operators

2008-07-27 Thread Steve Holden
een so far are all way impractical anyway. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Python-Dev] str(container) should call str(item), not repr(item)

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Holden
63, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26) str("qwer") 'qwer' repr("qwer") "'qwer'" No it doesn't. What's happening in these examples is that the interpreter is calling repr() on the expression result - otherwise you wouldn'

Re: [Python-Dev] Base-96

2008-08-01 Thread Steve Holden
of time before some genius decides to design a 67.9-bit computer. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail

Re: [Python-Dev] April 1st jokes

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
g/dev/peps/pep-3117/ Not to mention the April 1 Licensing blog entry: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/04/python-25-licensing-change.html regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www

Re: [Python-Dev] New to python, let me know if i should be posting somewhere else

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Holden
answer. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Maintaining old releases

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Holden
ted that the patches will never get released. Perhaps we should just document the maintenance of Python releases more clearly and also plan for a final bug fix release 3 years after the initial branch release. That way developers and users can also adjust their plans accordingly. As always the problem is

Re: [Python-Dev] Should we help pythonmac.org?

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Holden
f All Engine users download this old version.) I'd be happy to arrange things with a Mac expert to put the Mac binaries on the download site. -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Pydotorg] Should we help pythonmac.org?

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Holden
ions and you have to privately backport, though, isn't it? There have been hints dropped that if the 2.6 release hits its deadline it will be incorporated into vendor builds. Let's hope one of them is MacOS, then at least it'll be relatively up to date. regards Steve -- Steve Holden

Re: [Python-Dev] [Pydotorg] Should we help pythonmac.org?

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Holden
suspicious of any solution involving the word "just". I suppose we will "just" be able to recruit volunteers to maintain the additional content? regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode 5.1.0

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Holden
t this is low risk high benefit, > I'd vote no for 2.6/3.0. But it's [the] wafer-thin [end of the wedge] ... The difficulties with subprocess suggest there's plenty to do without adding yet one more tiny little task. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484

Re: [Python-Dev] Things to Know About Super

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Holden
t you should take a look at Enthought's traits package. It's part of the Enthought Tool Suite (ETS). https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki While I too appreciate your comments about super I believe you have perhaps overdone it. I do look forward to seeing the edited edition as a part of t

Re: [Python-Dev] confusing exec error message in 3.0

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Holden
; there's code that must painstakingly strip the trailing 'c' or 'o' > from __file__ in order to read the source code. Perhaps we should have > a separate API for finding out whether a module was loaded from source > or from a .pyc file; but I think it would be better

Re: [Python-Dev] Add python.exe to PATH environment variable

2008-09-05 Thread Steve Holden
to the directory first. For me, not > a big deal. > My own solution, on systems where I haven't bothered to add \python25 and python25\Scripts to the PATH, is to simply use \python25\python With tab expansion enabled by default it's easy enough. regards Steve -- Steve Ho

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb

2008-09-06 Thread Steve Holden
hat it was such a restrictive license. When I > see "Berkeley" I think "BSD license". > Well of course nowadays when you see "SleepyCat" you need to be thinking "Oracle". They have dabbled in open source, but I didn't get the impression that the

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb and sqlite

2008-09-07 Thread Steve Holden
ned that it appears that normal procedures have been circumvented to enable its removal from 3.0. Since we have at least one developer committed to ongoing support that seems both harsh and unnecessary. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484

Re: [Python-Dev] Add python.exe to PATH environment variable

2008-09-08 Thread Steve Holden
>python 'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Users\sholden\Documents\dyjr>manage.py Type 'manage.py help' for usage. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 4

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New in 2.6 link wasn't what I expected

2008-09-18 Thread Steve Holden
s 2.x What's New doc. That's what people > expect to find. We shouldn't be changing that now. > +1 -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Python documentation

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Holden
e a cross-link to the 3.0 docs. > Indeed. Having spent efforts to persuade the community that 3.0 isn't intended to replace 2.6 for production use it would be a shame to have docs.python.org counteract that. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden We

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-28 Thread Steve Holden
tive portions of the security team would help the busy members to avoid such issues dropping through the cracks in future. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

Re: [Python-Dev] Python security team

2008-09-30 Thread Steve Holden
his was more of a "so how the hell does it really work" question. > I haven't yet heard anyone make a convincing case that it does. It is a great idea, and we *do* need to take security seriously, but at present all we have is a bunch of well-intentioned and over-committed volunt

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.1 focus (was Re: for __future__ import planning)

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
to run the > program through 2to3 to make it port correctly, I recommend to use > the build_py_2to3 build step of distutils in 3.0. Then the same source > can be installed for 2.x and 3.x, with no modifications. > Of course there is also the option of treating Python 3 as a diffe

[Python-Dev] [Fwd: In Python 2.6, bytes is str]

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
te removing the pre-defined 'bytes', or maybe defining it as something else. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

Re: [Python-Dev] [Fwd: In Python 2.6, bytes is str]

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Holden
bytes alias > serves? I spent 5 minutes with the docs but I wasn't able to find a good > explanation of the bytes alias > Yes, I think all that's really needed is a clarification in the documentation. Just so people expect slightly kooky behavior of the kind originally n

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] superinstructions (VPython 0.1)

2008-10-23 Thread Steve Holden
me they are called). > Though it would seem redundant to create multiple copies of constant structures. Wouldn't there be some way to optimize this to allow each call to access the data from the same place? > Then fusing e.g. LOAD_FAST LOAD_FAST BINARY_ADD into ADD_FAST_FAST would cove

Re: [Python-Dev] Has python-dev collapsed?

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Holden
ure. You never know when > personal affairs are more important than voluntary work. > Pretty much whenever they come up ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ __

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