Re: [Python-Dev] Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.

2008-02-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
; buildbots are using the IEEE side---is this true? They run Linux, so yes. Notice that other people also run Python on z/OS. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Should a change in search order of directories in setup.py be backported?

2008-02-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
it. Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-02-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ersion selector; I'm unsure whether that tool would also support future versions (ie. vs2008), so its better to make sure the 2008 selector gets used. I don't know whether simultaneous installation of the express and full versions of VS 2008 is supported (but that was not your question).

Re: [Python-Dev] bugs.pythong.org bug?

2008-02-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
; - typed in josepharmbruster as creator You need to ask for joearmbruster, then it works fine. In general, take the string after "Hello, " on the navigation bar. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Can't decode \x876F character encoded in Shift JIS charset ?

2008-02-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ows31J, yet, according to http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets they are different (MIBEnum 17 vs MIBEnum 2024). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
certain size class, and then keeps a linked list of pools of the same size class. So when many float objects get allocated, you'll have a lot of pools of the float type's size class. IOW, PyMalloc has always enough room. Regards, Martin __

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ms: when you multiply digits today, the product will be 32-bit. If you extend the digits, you might get 64-bit results, which will be slow on 32-bit systems (plus some 32-bit systems don't support a 64-bit integer type at all in their compilers). Regards, Martin _

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
difference. In any case, if you think that you can improve things, please submit a patch. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Error from SVN commit

2008-02-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I checked r60695 in last night from that same checkout, so I wouldn't > expect it to be a local problem. Could the repository drive on > svn.python.org just be full? Or is something else going on? The hard disk was full. I have deleted some files. R

Re: [Python-Dev] Backporting tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile context management fix

2008-02-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
anch will come Wednesday night; there will be release candidate first. Regards, Martin ___ 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/

[Python-Dev] 2.5.2 freeze upcoming

2008-02-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ssign them to me with high priority. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Error in post-revprop-change hook in svn

2008-02-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ks know what is going on? I have no clue. I believe it would have been /data/repos/projects/hooks/mailer.py propchange /data/repos/projects 60765 brett.cannon svn:log but when I ran that just now, it worked fine, and the message got sent. Regards, Martin ___

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5.2, release candidate 1

2008-02-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
lease, Martin Martin v. Loewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5.2 freeze upcoming

2008-02-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
2.5.3. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Py_CLEAR to avoid crashes

2008-02-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
the then-deleted object. It will just be more difficult to trigger such crashes, depending on the period in which objects are cleaned. The only sane way to never touch deleted objects is to have no references to them on heap anymore, and to not touch stack references after the DECREF. Regards

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

2008-02-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
you think this could help, sure, but I doubt it would. I personally don't worry about these. If you don't want to see them, filter them out (roundup is very good at custom searches). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Py_CLEAR to avoid crashes

2008-02-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
that's unrelated to this issue. In those other cases, the refcount won't be zero, so the object is still there. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Python-Dev] Py_CLEAR to avoid crashes

2008-02-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
mand finds 36 candidates. Now, some of them are in tp_dealloc methods, so they shouldn't cause problems - but it can't hurt to replace them with Py_CLEAR, either. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

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

2008-02-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Two years for a bug report is *nothing*. Ten years, and I would start to worry that it might never get implemented. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http:

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

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
rivacy-related information that we need to withhold. If you provide some SQL statement or Python script that you want me to run on the server - that should be possible. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

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

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
(which used to be two weeks on SF). The tracker will add a message that the issue was closed because of inactivity. Unfortunately, that feature is not yet implemented. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

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

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> Problem is, we don't have an 'rfe' keyword anymore :) >> > > Shall we grow one again? What's wrong with the rfe type? Why does it have to be a keyword? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I suggest using socket.dup(sslsock) to simply create a non-encrypted > copy of the socket, and switch to using that copy. There's no way to > "unwrap" an SSLSocket. But shouldn't there be a way to invoke SSL_shutdown? You need to get the close_notify alert message

Re: [Python-Dev] Nosy lists on issue tracker.

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
not (users tend to assign their issues to core developers in the hopes of expediting processing of the issue, not realizing that assignment often impedes processing). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python

Re: [Python-Dev] Nosy lists on issue tracker.

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
That's the busybody list. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
itching to plain-text outside the SSL protocol is no option, no? Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
res that are not enhancements (and if so, why would anybody request them), or are there enhancements which are not features? Are they entirely disjoint sets of things? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

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

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
l other types in r52825, on 2006-11-23). Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Feb 20, 2008 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. >>&g

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

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
With if date2.differenceDate(date1).as_seconds() >= ACTIVITY_DAY_THRESHOLD * 24 * 3600 it gives - no selection -118 wont fix189 works for me62 accepted310 fixed 611 duplicate 75 later 17 invalid 73 postponed 6 out of date 193 remind 1 rejected

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

2008-02-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
p: certain resolution values would still be present and referenced by issues that use it, but they would not appear anymore in the drop-down list. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

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

2008-02-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What would be the difference between accepted and fixed for a closed ticket? As Guido says: a bug gets fixed, a patch gets accepted. This was copied over from SF, but it makes sense to me and everybody seems to be following it. Regards, Mar

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

2008-02-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
0 accepted4 fixed 2 duplicate 0 later 6 invalid 0 postponed 0 out of date 1 remind 0 rejected0 As Virgil expected: it's not very meaningful, but it's what you've asked for. Regards, Martin ___ Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> And, of course, if the int/float freelist scheme was a real issue > we would have probably heard of it by now in a very sound way. As Aahz says: people run into this problem frequently, and then report it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailin

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
e > consensus in this thread would have been faster, ;) Right. I wish this discussion had taken place before the tracker switchover. Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
make the names a little longer - it's a thirty-second edit. The question is whether I should. Again, taking your message just arbitrarily. The same remark applies to anything else declared as a proposal - I can only act on specifications, not on proposals. Re

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
;duplicate", "invalid", "out of date", "wont fix" and "works for me" are also firm decisions. ("later", "postponed", and "remind" might not be firm decisions - they were just inherited from SF). Regards, Martin __

[Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.5.2 released

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
clude: Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 100 have been fixed. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.5) are available from the Python 2.5 page, at http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Martin Martin v. Loewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.5.2 released

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
earlier); if it follows 2.6, it would be the last bugfix release for 2.5 (with security releases still possible). I'm still working on source-only releases of 2.4 and 2.3. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode <--> UTF-8 in CPython extension modules

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
en byte and Unicode strings in the absence of an encoding specification, you can't assume anything but ASCII (technically, not even that, as the bytes may be EBCDIC, but ASCII is safe for the majority of the systems - unlike UTF-8). The encoding can't be changed because that would break h

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
00 open issues, you will look back to the good old days when we were below 2000 :-) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/opti

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> One question I did have is whether or not access to 'security' type > issues is automatically limited to a small subset of the developers. No. Reports requiring privacy should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Martin ___ Python-

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

2008-02-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
e branches) > > This is another form of 'invalid' though more different than 'works for > me'. But does anyone really care other than this being a holdover from SF? One issue to consider is also politeness. People sometimes complain that they feel treated unfair if

Re: [Python-Dev] can't set attributes of built-in/extension type

2008-02-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
s in C don't. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
provide Windows binaries if desired. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
l and uncommon > stuff really hard. Exactly so. When I started with MSI generation, and tried what comes with Visual Studio, and found it unusable - it did not support Itanium, and could not be changed to support it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> For the MSI installers you also need Python 2.5, your pywin32 package >> and some additional tools like the help compiler and cabarc.exe. > > Have you looked at http://wix.sourceforge.net/ ? Yes. Martin ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Have you solved the problem with the VS CRT redist > (http://bugs.python.org/issue1569)? Maybe Mark is able to assist you. No, I still haven't found a solution. I do want to use the merge module; anything else probably isn't going to work.

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
c7f624d20 > WiX is an excellent inspiration though - if a WiX example can be found for > something, it should be a significant help in implementing it via msilib. The current challenge is merge modules: How can I merge the VC msm into the Python MSI (including support for SxS). Regards, Marti

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
iles with free-as-in-beer tools). In any case, contributions are welcome. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Depending on your job situation, that might pay some day :-) Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6 and 3.0 ...and applink.c?

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
would have to produce a patch, and a test case, and verify that the problem occurs without the patch, and is solved with the patch. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubsc

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6 and 3.0 ...and applink.c?

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
esn't, extension modules that link with their own OpenSSL will continue to produce a warning about the missing applink when they run in the context of a COM server (or some other Python embedding). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots for trunk are all red

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
m to delete it, then revert the script, check in again, and see how they build it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
:00 UTC (2.6) and 13:00 UTC (3.0). What that's at day or at night depends on where you live :-) Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbots for trunk are all red

2008-02-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Maybe the flaky tests could be moved towards the end? This way we could > at least see if the other tests work. It's intentional that the tests run in a random order. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 2.6 and 3.0

2008-02-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
it is just very hard to provide the same features as MSI, but with a different tool. It seems that most tools have given up the battle against MSI, and now provide just another layer on top of MSI (just as my msilib does, or WiX). Regards, Martin ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing buildbot/external(-amd64).bat files on Windows

2008-02-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>>> I'm going through the motions of getting my newly added build >>> slave >> in a half decent state. >> >> I think the buildbot should have a name different from 'x86 XP'. >> (Martin, Neal?) >> > Yeah, I've dropped Mart

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing buildbot/external(-amd64).bat files on Windows

2008-02-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
lable in VS Express. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing buildbot/external(-amd64).bat files on Windows

2008-02-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
uires only once. It probably belongs next to the > checkout or svn up and not in the build section. I came up with yet another solution: I changed the repository to contain already the converted files (or, rather, made a copy, as the 2.5 branch is still using th

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing buildbot/external(-amd64).bat files on Windows

2008-02-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ckout was never tested. That might also explain the buildbot crashes - they still were using object files from VS 2003, for db-4.4.20. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> As of 4:50 PM EST, the links to Windows installers give 404 File Not > Found. > > I gather that they are still in process, > and notice that there is no public c.l.p. announcement. I just fixed that. The files were there; just the links were wrong.

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] The release process

2008-03-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
h yet another release tool. If you primarily complain about the GUIness of welease, I could help with a command line version of it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubs

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Thanks for fixing these Martin! I have now also uploaded signed MSI files for 3.0a3. I have not tested them on a machine which doesn't have the VS 2008 CRT installed (as all the machines I can access right now do have it); please report what works and what doesn't. Re

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The 2.6a1 x86 MSI is there, but the 3.0a3 x86 MSI is still giving a 404. Please try again - *those* files weren't actually there when I sent my last message; I just built them. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] The release process

2008-03-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Barry apparently wants it to go even further, making many of the edits for you. Creating the Windows installer is comparatively much less error-prone (although I do sometimes forget to update Python/sysmodule.c when I switch my sandbox to the relea

[Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ghlights of the previous major Python releases are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Martin Martin v. Loewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
xed for 2.5 (IIUC), but the fix was not backported (nor should it be, as it is not relevant for security). Use OS X 10.4 if you want to use Python 2.4. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ld have to be fixed. IIUC, 2.4.4 won't compile on 10.5, either, and Python 2.4.5 will have no code to port it to new platforms. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev U

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

2008-03-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Any possibility of revisiting this question (upgrading to a more recent > compiler for Windows builds of Python)? Python 2.6 is built with Visual Studio 2008. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] BSDDB3

2008-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
n worked-around, by reformulating the test cases so that the situation doesn't occur anymore, but IMO, it should not be possible for an extension module to cause an interpreter abort. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:/

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows buildbots randomly die with twisted ConnectionLost errors?

2008-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
connection loss whether it shows any problems from the client side as well. Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
oo late) for > Python to somehow embrace such mechanism? It would be possible, but it would be a fairly large project. You would have to remove a lot of things from the Python header files, and that would cause significant breakage in existing extension modules. Regards, Martin ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r61264 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_os.py Misc/NEWS

2008-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Trent Nelson wrote: > Hurrah, 'x86 W2k8 trunk' has just experienced its first green build > and test! Thanks to everyone that committed the various patches I > sent out in such a timely fashion. > > Martin, does this mean I can have a slave set up for x64 now? }:>

[Python-Dev] Auto-Assignment

2008-03-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
), and Documentation and Sphinx to Georg Brandl. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I suspect something in the install failed to set something > in the registry. Is there any log file of the install > to inspect? You need to run msiexec /i /l*v to generate a logfile for the installation. Regards, Martin ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
t; > Note that it didn't have VS2008 or any other new code installed. > > When running the Python console, running How did you do that if you can't install the file? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org ht

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3

2008-03-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Ok, I have the 3MB log file. Should I upload it > somewhere or is there a pattern to find? Please compress it, and make a bug report on bugs.python.org. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Auto-Assignment

2008-03-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller wrote: > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> I just implemented auto-assignment for the tracker, i.e. a component >> can be linked to a developer so that issues mentioning the component >> get assigned to that developer (unless an explicit assignment is >> made).

Re: [Python-Dev] Auto-Assignment

2008-03-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> ctypes is big and important enough IMO to deserve a component. Ok, I just created the component and made Thomas the auto-assignee for it. http://bugs.python.org/component22 Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org h

Re: [Python-Dev] Readline completion hook silences exceptions.

2008-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ntly. Unless explicitly silenced. Please submit a patch. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] FreeBSD test suite failure -> curses

2008-03-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ful. For the core file, make sure you select the right thread to inspect - this is probably not the one which caused the crash; use "info threads" as a starting point (hoping that the core file supports that). Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] FreeBSD test suite failure -> curses

2008-03-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
y = newscr ? newscr->_cury : -1; x = newscr ? newscr->_curx : -1; } If it's similar on FreeBSD, the only reason why this could break is that newscr is NULL. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org h

Re: [Python-Dev] FreeBSD test suite failure -> curses

2008-03-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
in that way throughout. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ations. Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Get rid of strerror.c and memmove.c?

2008-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Since both strerror() and memmove() are both in C89 (they are listed > in K&R), can we ditch these files? I think they can safely be deleted. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
nsertions and deletions, prepending will be O(1) (if M is large, with a large factor). Regards, Martin ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
takes O(N), not constant time (even though there is only one key in the dictionary). > I wasn't sure about many of the set() operations, so I didn't include those. set is just implemented like a dictionary, without keys. Regards, Martin ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
rds, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
h of the remaining functions officially belongs to the ABI, and freeze them for the lifetime of Python 3. New functions can be added, but when changing the signature, the old functions must remain in place. In Tcl stubs, that is achieved through a function vector, IIUC. HTH, Martin __

[Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5 (final)

2008-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
on.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Martin Martin v. Loewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
d easiest to read, regardless of performance consequences initially. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

2008-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ictionaries are *completely* different things, not interchangeable at all. > Toss a coin? Or make a few educated guesses based on > what you know about each data type? I look at my problem, and the choice of container falls out of that naturally. Regards, Martin _

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

2008-03-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
to get at things quickly. OTOH, they are discouraged for use outside the core already. Use PyList_GetItem, and you won't notice the difference. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.0 buildbots all red

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
y applies to buildbots that are connected/online.) Even with that restriction: I'll happily buy you a beer if you manage to get all the online ones pass all tests consistently. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

2008-03-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
semantically is the same as further restricting it to 2.6 and 3.0. Creating a query that searches for multiple versions is possible through URL editing, but not the form (currently). I'm not sure whether that would search for issues which are marked both 2.6 and 3.

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

2008-03-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
e, but would really like to see a command line utility in addition. This, of course, would raise the issue who "owns" the easy_install script name; ideally, the script would not have to be overwritten when setuptools gets installed. Regards, Martin

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

2008-03-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
s an "easy_install" utility, so that people never find out the module actually exists. Regards, Martin ___ 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

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

2008-03-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
cleanly, follows the coding style, has correct documentation, and so on? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pytho

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

2008-03-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
, I consider it a useful compromise. Regards, Martin ___ 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

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