Re: [Python-Dev] problem installing current cvs - TabError

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
f they do have an annoying mix of spaces and tabs. There's a scripts Tools/scripts/reindent.py - put it somewhere on your PATH and run it before checkin, like "reindent.py -r Lib". It means Tim or I don't have to run it for you Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiple expression eval in compound if statement?

2005-06-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
, other): self.v += 1 return self.v == other Really, you'd have to make sure you didn't optimise any LHS that defined a comparision operator (I _think_ that covers all the cases). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a

[Python-Dev] 2.5 - I'm ok to do release management

2006-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm still catching up on the hundreds of python-dev messages from the last couple of days, but a quick note first that I'm ok to do release management for 2.5 Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to h

Re: [Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 12 February 2006 21:51, Thomas Wouters wrote: > Well, in the past, features -- even syntax changes -- have gone in > between the last beta and the final release (but reminding Guido > might bring him to tears of regret. ;) Features have also gone into > what would have been 'bugfix releas

Re: [Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
't think anyone disagrees about This stuff is always open for discussion, of course. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

[Python-Dev] buildbot, and test failures

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
d up correctly. test_socketserver could probably do with a rewrite. Who's the person who hands out buildbot username/password pairs? I have an Ubuntu x86 box here that can become one (I think the only linux, currently, is Gentoo...) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Python-Dev] 2.4.3 for end of March?

2006-02-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
would then follow when 2.5 final is done, hopefully October or so... Anyone have any screaming issues with this? Martin's ok to do the Windows release, and the doc build should be fine, too. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to h

Re: [Python-Dev] Stateful codecs [Was: str object going in Py3K]

2006-03-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:48, Walter Dörwald wrote: > Any progress on this? I'd really like to get this into 2.5 and the > feature freeze is approaching fast! Remember, the feature freeze is as of beta1. Hopefully the major new features are all going to be in before alpha1, but they can contin

Re: [Python-Dev] C++ for CPython 3? (Re: str.count is slow)

2006-03-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
It's probably worth mentioning that right now, we don't even come close to compiling with a C++ compiler. A bunch of the bugs are shallow (casting result from malloc, that sort of thing) but a bunch more look a tad uglier. Is this something worth trying to fix? Fixing the shallow bugs at least

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug in from __future__ processing?

2006-03-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
to have the time to figure out the new compiler to do the work. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/

Re: [Python-Dev] Topic suggestions from the PyCon feedback

2006-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
ence. It's fairly brief race through the world - only 1/2 an hour - but I try to hit all the good points. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
27;d still like to push 2.4.3rc1 out in a couple of days time, with 2.4.3 final next week, and then maybe aim for 2.5a1 a week or two later? How does that work for everyone? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___

[Python-Dev] release24-maint FREEZE for 2.4.3c1, this Thursday

2006-03-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
now if you have any issues with this. Should I also put this sort of information somewhere on the web? Maybe a slot at the top of the buildbot page? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Python-Dev] release24-maint unfrozen, kinda

2006-03-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
2.4.3c1 is out, so the release24-maint branch is kinda unfrozen. I want to cut a 2.4.3 final next week, so please be very very cautious about checkins to the branch. A 2.4.4 will follow sometime in 6 months, or after 2.5 final is out, whichever is sooner. -- Anthony Baxter <[EM

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

2006-03-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
n 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html On a personal note, according to my records this is the 25th release of Python I've made as release manager. So enjoy this silver anniversary release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behal

[Python-Dev] BRANCH release24-maint FREEZE from 00:00 UTC on Wednesday 29th

2006-03-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
ail, or on #python-dev on Freenode. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE for 2.5a1: 0000 UTC, Thursday 30th

2006-03-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
;re not going to hit beta until the features we want are in. Please help in making this release as painless as possible by not checking in while the trunk is frozen. Thanks! Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too

Re: [Python-Dev] Changing -Q to warn for 2.5?

2006-03-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
that can take > four values: "old", "warn", "warnall", or "new". The default is > "old" in Python 2.2 but will change to "warn" in later 2.x > versions. """ > > Is this still accurate? Do we want to change t

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Cancelled! TRUNK FREEZE for 2.5a1: 0000 UTC, Thursday 30th

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
freeze, not the bug day ) - exact date to follow once the appropriate people are OK with the date. Sorry about that, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistency in 2.4.3 for __repr__() returning unicode

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
e conversion using the 'replace' > error strategy - after all, repr() is usually only > used for debugging, where it's more important that > you do get an output rather than an exception. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It&

[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
's people's thoughts? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] improving quality

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
t even trivial changes can cause regressions or > incompatible changes. Just like failing tests, code checked in > without tests is fair game for being reverted if there is anything > questionable. +1 from me. Anyone disagree? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistency in 2.4.3 for __repr__() returning unicode

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
Never mind. For 2.4.3, I reverted perky's patch for the unicode-escape, and reverted the old patch for PyObject_Repr on the trunk. After talking to perky and Neal, this seemed like the safest option for 2.4.3. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] I'm not getting email from SF when assigned abug/patch

2006-03-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 19:13, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Another option would be Bugzilla, which is proven to be stable, > maintained and used succesfully by large open source projects (like > GCC+RedHat+Binutils+Classpath). Please god no. No bugzilla, no no no. Please!

Re: [Python-Dev] I'm not getting email from SF when assigned abug/patch

2006-03-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 19:35, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Another option would be Bugzilla, which is proven to be stable, > >> maintained and used succesfully by large open source projects > >> (like GCC+RedHat+Binuti

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm happy to work with Gerhard to make this happen. Does it need a PEP? I'd say "no", but only because things like ElementTree didn't, either. Does it need a BDFL pronouncement? I'd say yes. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org ht

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
party packages as (for instance) db.mysqldb because of the way package importing works. And I'd prefer 'database.sqlite' rather than 'db.sqlite'. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.3, final.

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpycme1bl6TX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
rt of the reason I want to see pysqlite in 2.5 is that it follows the standard DB-API. People can start off using it, then look at switching to a larger database if their application needs grow. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too l

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
. > Including pysqlite with Python just means it will happen more > frequently. Er - what? Right now, people are far more likely to use bsddb or anydbm for an inappropriate problem space. Adding a _better_ solution makes this better, not worse. I mean, adding ElementTree could also

Re: [Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
does 'from py import *' do, anyway? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
x27;re saying that the toplevel of 'stdlib' wouldn't contain any real modules, but instead they'd be grouped under sub-packages? Good luck finding a home for everything... trying to categorise everything will be nearly impossible. And 'from stdlib.misc impo

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
a into it, so performance further sucked. And people trying to build production systems on SimpleHTTPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer, smptd, or dumbdbm will also find their performance sucks. What's your point? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
at all. Why not just create an empty db package that > does the pkgutil or pkg_resources dance and let people install all > N database interfaces instead of just N-1? The same could be said of vast amounts of the standard library. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
ich pass), setup.py magic to find a correct sqlite3 version, and the like. Still to do: Windows buildproj Documentation Upgrade to the updated pysqlite once it's out maybe switch from db.sqlite to just sqlite (trivial enough change). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 30 March 2006 22:25, Andrew Walkingshaw wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:24:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Langner wrote: > > -1 on db.sql.sqlite. > > Keep structure flat. Or we are eventually in a Java world with > > org.something.this.andthat > > xml.dom.minidom? given the horror of _x

[Python-Dev] _xmlplus fixup for 2.5

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 30 March 2006 23:07, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > >> xml.dom.minidom? > > > > given the horror of _xmlplus/xmlcore and whatnot, I'd be hesitant > > to use the xml package as an example of _anything_ > > which reminds me --

[Python-Dev] (finally) getting around to killing __private names from stdlib

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
done. Before I do this, does anyone want to scream? (see also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058555.html ) -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
y ship with bsddb). While sqlite is nowhere near the size of BerkeleyDB, it's still a non-trivial amount of code. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mail

[Python-Dev] Firefox searchbar engine for Python bugs

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
here: http://www.python.org/~anthony/searchbar/ If you can think of other useful searchbar plugins (Python Docs, maybe?) let me know and I'll look at creating them. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to h

Re: [Python-Dev] Firefox searchbar engine for Python bugs

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:17, Anthony Baxter wrote: > I've created a searchbar plugin for the firefox search bar that > allows you to search bugs. I should clarify - it allows you to pull up a bug by bug ID, using the www.python.org/sf/

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE. 2.5a1, 00:00 UTC, Wednesday 5th of April.

2006-04-02 Thread Anthony Baxter
Now that the bug day has been and gone, it's time to cut 2.5a1. Please consider the trunk FROZEN from 00:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday the 5th of April. I'll post again when it's unfrozen. Please help in not making the release manager cry because the trunk is broken. Thanks, Anthony _

Re: [Python-Dev] posixmodule.c patch- revision 43586

2006-04-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:06, Tim Peters wrote: > backport of r43578 > The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight > savings flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date > whether it should be set. > patch from Aldo Cortesi > """ > > is in the blamelist for the runs w

[Python-Dev] Reminder: TRUNK FREEZE. 2.5a1, 00:00 UTC, Wednesday 5th of April.

2006-04-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
Just a reminder - the trunk is currently frozen for 2.5a1. Please don't check anything into it until the release is done. I'll send an update when this is good. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. --- Begin Message ---

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
types. In addition, a new profiling module cProfile was added. A large number of bugs, regressions and reference leaks have been fixed since Python 2.4. See the release notes for more. Enjoy this new (alpha!) release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of t

[Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
ound a new use as a buildslave, so it's not the fastest box in the world... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
but it's confusing at least... Damn. Missed that one. Fixed, will be visible again when the website auto-rebuilds (5-10 minutes). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:20, Anthony Baxter wrote: > www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all, That should be www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/ (needs the trailing /) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5a1 Performance

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
27;s assuming that the machines are otherwise idle, > though.) -- -1. A bad benchmark (which pystone is) is much worse than no benchmark. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Use dlopen() on Darwin/OS X to load extensions?

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
st.py. My patch didn't mess this up, though -- the > startfile test is absent from the 'exclude' list in the SVN > repository. I fixed this shortly after Py2.5a1. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Python-Dev] packaging/bootstrap issue

2006-04-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
an ideal solution, but it should fix the problem. The other option would be some special Makefile magic that detects this case and doesn't rebuild the files if no "python" binary can be found. I have no idea how you'd do this in a portable way. Anyone got other options? Antho

Re: [Python-Dev] need info for externally maintained modules PEP

2006-04-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
ckage. Ubuntu (a debian derivative) and I _think_ Debian proper has fixed this now. Well, I'd be suprised if Debian proper hasn't fixed it as well, as the same person packages both. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's ne

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Contributor Agreement for pysqlite

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
As far as I know, I've never signed one. I probably should, or is there some grandfathering rule for people who've been contributing from before the new agreement came in? ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Contributor Agreement for pysqlite

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:56, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > No - those people will have to fill out the agreement covering past > contributions also: > > http://www.python.org/psf/contrib-form-python.html > > And yes, you are right - you haven't filed one, so far. Righto - I will try to get to this s

[Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
gs around the place, such as the code in PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong that returns a -1 despite the return value being declared as unsigned... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 13 April 2006 10:59, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > Anthony> I've done a lot of the work to get Python to build > > > with g++ - > > > > > > Is this on a branch or available as a patch somewhere? > > > > It's the trunk. > > Is there a primer that will get me to where Anthony is? I tri

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r45321 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_traceback.py Lib/traceback.py Misc/NEWS

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
is on the release24-maint branch. > Fine by me if we change the failing tests on the trunk to pass > (noting that should have been done before checking in). I'm reverting on the trunk, too. Per PJE's email as well, I think this needs discussion before committing (and it needs the

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
. But yeah, that's pretty nasty. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscri

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
So I lied - I found the time today to spread the magic pixie dust of extern "C" {} around to get the Python core to build and link with g++. (It still builds with gcc). There's still an issue with Modules/_sre.c, and now that we can run setup.py, there's lots and lots of errors from the various

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r45321 - in pyt hon/trunk: Lib/test/test_traceback.py Lib/tracebac k.py Misc/NEWS

2006-04-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
ng broken patches that don't have trivial test fixes is the way to go. The buildbot system is useless, otherwise. And yes, I'm working on the existing broken buildslaves trying to fix them. For instance - on ia64, sqlite is failing because of a bug in gcc - compiled with -O2

Re: [Python-Dev] How to make _sre.c compile w/ C++?

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
at's either SRE_CHAR* or Py_UNICODE* would make the problem go away. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm not sure how people would prefer this be handled. I don't think we need to have a PEP for it - I don't see PEPs for ctypes, elementtree, pysqlite or cProfile, either. I don't have a problem at all with setuptools going into the standard library. It adds a whole pile of extremely useful fun

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
need at least have to change "from distutils.core import > setup" to "from setuptools import setup"? Or to something like: Nope, only if you want to use the new, nicer functionality. If you want to stick with the status quo, you're quite welcome to.

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
cular, he wrote the original rant about this about Mozilla/Firefox. How did that work out again? Oh, that's right - we now have a much, much more successful and usable browser. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy chi

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 20 April 2006 06:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik> for some reason, tools of this kind tend to reach the > big ball Fredrik> of mud stage even before they reach the dogfood > stage. and Fredrik> once you have a big ball of mud, you simply > won't get much Fredrik> outside hel

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html > > > > Yes. I remember that piece. In particular, he wrote the original > > rant about this about Mozilla/Firefox. How d

[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
owards Phillip's work has been excessive. He's done an amazing amount of work on this (look at the distutils-sig archive for the last two years for more), and produced something that's very very useful. He deserves far more credit for this than he seems to have been getting here. Anth

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
.5". I think I just did that. I'm happy to share any blame, but leave the credit to Phillip. I don't think it's fair to say that Phillip just checked this in off on his own. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It&#x

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
ened half a dozen times so far. And the old module still keeps working fine. If there's bugs that someone logs, they will get addressed exactly the same as any other bug. I don't see people closing patches off as "that's an old module, I'm not going to apply it". It

Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
self. See, I don't get the hostility thing. While I have some concerns about the state of distutils today, I still admire Greg Ward's efforts in producing the code, and Python is in a much better place than had he not done the work. Responding to an effort like Greg's, or Phillip&

Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
easons, some > of which I consider objective. And you posed a number of concrete questions to PJE in the previous message, which is good - these are also some of the questions I had (but hadn't had the time to investigate yet). Anthony -- Anth

Re: [Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
ion here - it's no better or worse than countless packages in site-packages, and if it gives us multiple versions of the same code, all the better. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. __

Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
in list. Oh please, yes. Replacing the current import code is one of the things I really really want to see in 3.0. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 21 April 2006 03:31, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe they know something we don't. > > oh, please. it's not like people like myself and MAL don't know > anything about package distribution... > > (why is it that people who *don't* distribute stuff are a lot more

Re: [Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
y to build system specific packages would probably be an ok summer of code project, no? -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] Win64 AMD64 (aka x64) binaries available64

2006-04-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Saturday 22 April 2006 15:27, Neal Norwitz wrote: > In case it wasn't clear, the /Wp64 flag is available in icc > (Intel's C compiler). Is it worth turning this on for the icc ubuntu buildbot? Anyone got ideas on the best way to do this? Should I just set CFLAGS="-Wp64" before running the bui

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE from 00:00 UTC, 27th April 2006 for 2.5a2

2006-04-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
ssage when it's done. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages

2006-04-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
pace packages, which will more closely match naive > user expectations. The breakage of tools and the like is my concern, too. Python's import machinery is already a delicate mess of subtle rules. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happ

Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages

2006-04-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
just not to changing it on short notice for 2.5 and causing me pain from having to cut new releases to fix some breakage in the stdlib caused by this -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages

2006-04-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
general concensus that the changes have a substantial cost/benefit for breaking the feature freeze. Or if Guido gets Google developers parading him in effigy around the office and needs to get them off his back. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 2)

2006-04-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
). Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpFtTGHocMYr.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mail

[Python-Dev] trunk is UNFROZEN

2006-04-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
The release is done. The trunk is now unfrozen. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Python-Dev] lambda in Python

2006-05-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
This is utterly irrelevant for python-dev. Please take it elsewhere. Thanks, Anthony ___ 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/arch

Re: [Python-Dev] Python sprint mechanics

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
safe changes are considered for landing on the trunk. Massive refactorings really don't fill me with happy thoughts. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] python 2.4 and universal binaries

2006-05-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
This is fine with me. Note that 2.4.4 won't be out until after 2.5.0, so it's a couple of months off yet. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5 schedule

2006-05-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
Remember, the feature freeze isn't until beta1. New stuff can still go in after the next alpha, before beta1. And pure speedup related items aren't likely to cause feature changes (I hope) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5 schedule

2006-05-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Saturday 20 May 2006 08:23, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > I'm sorry, but I find such advancing schedules with little warning > quite objectionable. Particularly the cutoff for new functionality > implicit in the last of the alphas. Nonono. Feature freeze is beta1. Anthony --

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5 schedule

2006-05-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ok - we're going to skip the 3rd alpha, and the next release will be beta1, currently scheduled for June 14th. With all the changes this week from the needforspeed sprint, cutting a release seems like too much of a risk. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] SQLite status?

2006-05-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
insufficient docs. Is that still > true? Not in my universe, we won't. As far as I know, the docs are checked in. I still need to review them. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _

Re: [Python-Dev] Let's stop eating exceptions in dict lookup

2006-06-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
viously they need to hire people who are already crazy. not-naming-any-names-ly, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] sqlite3 test er rors - was : Re: r46936 - in python/trunk: Lib/sqlit e3/test/regression.py Lib/sqlite3/test/types.py Lib/ sqlite3/test/userfunctions.py Modules/_sqli

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
Well, the just-released Ubuntu 06.06 LTS (Long Term Support) ships with sqlite 3.2.8. I'd suggest that whatever version ships with Python should _at_ _least_ work with this version. 06.06 is supposed to be supported for a couple of years, at least. Since this is the latest and greatest version

Re: [Python-Dev] beta1 coming real soon

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
I guess the release will not be > started as long as the tests fail, but is there a new plan? I want to be confident we've got this sqlite issue resolved. Since it might involve API changes, I'm stalling a little. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Python-Dev] Beta 1 schedule ? (Bug in stringobject?)

2006-06-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
same interface > later on in the beta cycle ? How big is it likely to be? How much of a pain will it be to make it work with various versions of Windows? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. __

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug in stringobject?

2006-06-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
ave a problem with this bug fix going in for beta 2. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

[Python-Dev] When to branch release25-maint?

2006-06-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
ght I'd open this up for discussion... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE IMMINENT FOR 2.5 BETA 1 - 00:00 UTC, 20-JUNE-2006

2006-06-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
eckin to make sure it didn't break anything. The plan at the moment is to branch the trunk for release25-maint when the first release candidate for 2.5 final is cut. This is currently scheduled for August 1st - about 6 weeks away. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (beta 1)

2006-06-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
ors to produce a coroutine kind of functionality, and a brand new AST-based compiler implementation. New modules added include hashlib, ElementTree, sqlite3, wsgiref and ctypes. We also have a new profiling module "cProfile". Enjoy this new release (another step on the path to Python

[Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN, but in FEATURE FREEZE

2006-06-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
on a branch. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] xturtle.py a replacement for turtle.py(!?)

2006-06-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
les for a new feature, but only just). Does this seem reasonable? If so, I'll add a note to the [still unfinished :-(] PEP 101 rewrite. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r47142 - in python/trunk: Doc/lib/librunpy.tex Lib/runpy.py Lib/test/test_runpy.py

2006-06-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
ake full module name available as __module_name__ even when > __name__ is set to something else (like '__main__') Er. Um. Feature freeze? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___

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