[Python-Dev] Request for commit access

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Curtin
test patches when they don't have direct access to Windows. Brian Curtin p.s. My contributor form in on file as of 2010-01-31. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of 2.7b1?

2010-04-10 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:51, Nick Coghlan wrote: > The trunk's been frozen for a few days now, which is starting to cut > into the window for new fixes between b1 and b2 (down to just under 3 > weeks, and that's only if b1 was ready for release today). > > Is work in train to address or documen

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of 2.7b1?

2010-04-10 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 13:37, Tim Golden wrote: > On 10/04/2010 17:02, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> I contacted David Bolen for some details about the his buildbot because I >> can't reproduce the failure on any Windows XP, Server 2003, or 7 box that >> I >> have,

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

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:36, Steve Holden wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > On 14 April 2010 07:37, Paul Rudin wrote: > >> "Martin v. Löwis" writes: > >> > >>> The major difference in the "do it yourself" attitude is that Mac user > >>> get a compiler for free, as part of the operating system re

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

2010-04-14 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:03, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Paul Rudin wrote: > > "Martin v. Löwis" writes: > > > >> The major difference in the "do it yourself" attitude is that Mac user > >> get a compiler for free, as part of the operating system release, > >> whereas for Windows, they have to

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of 2.7b1?

2010-04-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 14:43, David Bolen wrote: > Brian Curtin writes: > > > The tests are run on a native Win32 build as compiled by VS2008. The > > functionality is Win32 specific and wouldn't work on Cygwin, so the tests > > are skipped there. I believe Cygwi

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 03:20, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > >>>I am surprised to see that the bug-tracker > >>> doesn't have an OS classifier or ability to add > >>> tags ? Since a number of issues reported seem to > > Just to r

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

2010-04-16 Thread Brian Curtin
) We do ask that requests are for people who are active contributors and not just minor/occasional participants. """ If this applies to you and you are interested, let me know. Brian Curtin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

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

2010-04-18 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:16, wrote: > On 02:56 pm, techto...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Twisted folks will surely appreciate any help and may be able to >> contribute back. >> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Windows >> > > Extra Windows and VS licenses would certainly be helpful for Twisted > dev

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

2010-04-19 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:48, Steve Holden wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:54 -0500, Brian Curtin a écrit : > >> The recent threads on builds/installers for Mac and Windows reminded me > >> of Steve Holden's push to get th

Re: [Python-Dev] Email addresses for new committers for python-committers

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 14:42, Brett Cannon wrote: > If you are a committer and are NOT subscribed to the python-committers > mailing list (I believe this at least includes Giampaolo, JP, and Brian), > then please either reply to this email with your preferred email address or > let me know direc

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:22, Daniel Stutzbach < dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: > May I have enhanced permissions on the bug tracker, so that I can perform > the following tasks? > > - Assign issues to myself that I plan to write a patch for > - Update the Stage to "patch review" after w

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

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:44, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Thorne > wrote: > >> We are also attempting to enable tax-deductible fund raising to increase > >> the likelihood of David's finding support. Perhaps we need to think > >> about a broader campaign t

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

2010-07-02 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:16, anatoly techtonik wrote: > It is not the question about do you like it or not. It is the question > >"Are You ready?" > > That means: > Have you tried Mercurial? > Yes. > Do you understand how it works? Yes. > Do you have a workflow ready a

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:34, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/14/2010 4:10 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > > Sure, and if it was work time, we probably would do this ;). As it is >> right now, this is volunteer time, and I would say that we're entitled >> to do whatever helps us getting done the (not alwa

Re: [Python-Dev] profiler decorator - is it worth for inclusion?

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 13:45, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > Today I was looking for a quick and dirty way to profile a method of a > class. > I was thinking that cProfile module had a decorator for this but I was > wrong so I decided to write one based on hotshot. > Would it be worth for inclusion?

Re: [Python-Dev] MSDN subscription extensions?

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 16:53, David Bolen wrote: > As one of the beneficiaries of the efforts (much appreciated) last > year to obtain Microsoft MSDN subscriptions for developers/testers (in > my case, primarily buildbot operation), I was wondering if anyone > might know if those subscriptions w

Re: [Python-Dev] http://bugs.python.org/issue231540

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 18:39, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/07/2010 00:09, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On 23 July 2010 23:26, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Is there any money to pay for the forthcoming 10th birthday party for >>> this >>> issue? Is the OP still alive? >>> >> >> I'm not sure the sarcasm

Re: [Python-Dev] Define a place for code review in Python workflow

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 15:18, anatoly techtonik wrote: > http://bugs.python.org/issue9376 > This issue discussed docs on the proper way to create diff on windows > (as it is doesn't have the tool) for sending the patch. The current > proper way is to use "svn diff" which will be replaced with "hg

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-07-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 19:48, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been wading through outstanding issues today and have noticed that > there are several where there has been no response at all to the initial > post. Failing that, the only response has been Terry Reedy back in May > 2010, a

Re: [Python-Dev] No response to posts

2010-08-02 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:39, Ralf Schmitt wrote: > Benjamin Peterson writes: > > > Please, let's stop messing with the tracker for everything. I think > > the current set up works reasonably well, and we should focus on the > > real problem: manpower > > Ignoring issues (probably even with some

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker status

2010-08-03 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:58, R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:35:01 +0200, Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > Apparently you are not the only one experiencing it. > > On #python-dev we get such notifications: > > > > alanwilter roundup * #9485/signal.signal/signal.alarm not > > working

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-03 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 20:08, Steve Holden wrote: > It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively > large number of developers who have received MSDN licenses from > Microsoft, none if us have the time to make sure that the buildbots are > green for the 2.6.6 release. > > I

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:48, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Aug 03, 2010, at 09:08 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > > >It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively > >large number of developers who have received MSDN licenses from > >Microsoft, none if us have the time to make sure tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:49, Tim Golden wrote: > On 04/08/2010 16:38, Steve Holden wrote: > >> On 8/4/2010 11:00 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:48, Barry Warsaw>> <mailto:ba...@python.org>> wrote: >>> >&

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83763 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/signal.rst Lib/test/test_signal.py Misc/NEWS Modules/signalmodule.c

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 21:59, Ezio Melotti wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/08/2010 22.27, brian.curtin wrote: > >> Author: brian.curtin >> Date: Fri Aug 6 21:27:32 2010 >> New Revision: 83763 >> >> Log: >> Fix #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order >> to prevent crashes. >>

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83763 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/signal.rst Lib/test/test_signal.py Misc/NEWS Modules/signalmodule.c

2010-08-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 08:21, Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote: > On 2010/08/07 19:18, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> >> On 7 Aug, 2010, at 10:24, Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote: >> >> This is the idea just popped up. :-) >>> >>> #define SIG(name) if (sig_num != SIG##name) >>>SIG(ABRT) SIG(FPE) SIG(ILL) SIG(INT

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84559 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 07:34, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:29 AM, brian.curtin > wrote: > > Author: brian.curtin > > Date: Mon Sep 6 18:29:29 2010 > > New Revision: 84559 > > > > Log: > > Fix #8956. ValueError message was only mentioning one signal. > > > > Rather than list ou

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84564 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib: ntpath.py test/test_ntpath.py

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 08:12, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:46 AM, brian.curtin > wrote: > > Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/ntpath.py > > > == > > --- python/branches/py3k/Lib/ntpath.py (original) >

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84559 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/subprocess.py

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 08:19, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > > Sure, seems reasonable to me. > > Does """raise ValueError("Unsupported signal: {}".format(sig))""" look > fine, > >

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r84988 - in python/branches/py3k: Lib/ntpath.py Misc/NEWS

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:30, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:38 AM, brian.curtin > wrote: > > Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/ntpath.py > > > == > > --- python/branches/py3k/Lib/ntpath.py (original)

Re: [Python-Dev] r84983 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/os.rst Lib/test/test_os.py Misc/NEWS Modules/posixmodule.c

2010-09-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:49, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:38:44 +0200 > "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" wrote: > > 2010/9/24 Antoine Pitrou : > > > > > > The getlogin test fails on many Unix buildbots, either with errno 2 > > > (ENOENT) or 22 (EINVAL) or "OSError: unable to determine

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.normcase rationale?

2010-09-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:36, Paul Moore wrote: > On 26 September 2010 09:01, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 25 September 2010 23:57, Greg Ewing > wrote: > >> Paul Moore wrote: > >> > >>> Windows has (I believe) user definable filesystems, too, but the OS > >>> has "get me the real filename" style c

Re: [Python-Dev] We should be using a tool for code reviews

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:31, Daniel Stutzbach < dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:52 AM, wrote: > >> Of course, this is only true if the core developers *do* submit to the >> same rules. Is anyone proposing that current core committers have all their >> work r

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable build slaves authority

2010-10-13 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 17:42, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > I'll give it a go; I have all the software needed to run the buildbot on > > it already besides VC Express, which I'm installing now. If ultimately > > it becomes too much of a pain, I'll go back to just providing the mac. > > But, I act

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable build slaves authority

2010-10-14 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:00, Stephen Hansen > wrote: > On 10/13/10 10:28 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > -On [20101014 00:55], Brian Curtin (brian.cur...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Correct. There are a few hacky ways to get Express to use the x64 SDK, > or s

Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Curtin
2010/10/27 Kristján Valur Jónsson > > So, here is my suggestion: > > Let’s move the current ‘trunk’ into /branches/afterlife-27. Open it for > submissions from people such as myself that use 2.7 on a regular basis and > are willing to give it some extra love. Host it there without the usual > s

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86000 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_fileio.py

2010-10-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 09:20, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM, brian.curtin > wrote: > > Author: brian.curtin > > Date: Sun Oct 31 01:56:45 2010 > > New Revision: 86000 > > > > Log: > > Fix ResourceWarning about unclosed file > > > > > > Modified: > > python/branches/py3

Re: [Python-Dev] rlcompleter -- auto-complete dictionary keys (+ tests)

2010-11-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 04:19, Valery Khamenya wrote: > Hi, > > A) I missed the auto-complete feature for dictionary keys a lot in python > console. This patch seems to do the job. > > B) There is no rlcompleter tests in trunk for some reason. So, I've taken > the 2.7.x test_rlcompleter.py and ext

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable buildbots

2010-11-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:48, David Bolen wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > > Do we have any idea why the workaround to avoid the popup windows > > stopped working? (assuming it ever worked reliably - I thought it did, > > but that impression may have been incorrect) > > Oh, the pop-up handling

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86540 - in python/branches/py3k: Parser/asdl_c.py Python/Python-ast.c

2010-11-19 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 20:01, benjamin.peterson wrote: > Author: benjamin.peterson > Date: Sat Nov 20 03:01:45 2010 > New Revision: 86540 > > Log: > c89 declarations > > Modified: > python/branches/py3k/Parser/asdl_c.py > python/branches/py3k/Python/Python-ast.c > > Modified: python/branches

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug week-end on the 20th-21st?

2010-11-21 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:04, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:32:42 -0400 > "R. David Murray" wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:22:24 -0200, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel < > r...@isnomore.net> wrote: > > >> Am 23.10.2010 19:08, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > > >>> The first 3.2 beta is s

Re: [Python-Dev] Solaris family and 64 bits compiling

2010-11-22 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 17:48, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I think this is probably trivial, but is there any foolproof way to > detect 64 bit builds in python, beside "sys.maxint"?. > import platform platform.architecture()

Re: [Python-Dev] http.server - reference to bug #427345

2010-11-23 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 22:28, Glenn Linderman > wrote: > Where might I find the bug #427345 that is referred to in a comment inside > http.server ? Here is a code excerpt: > > # throw away additional data [see bug #427345] > while select.select([self.rfile._sock], [], [

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86817 - python/branches/py3k-stat-on-windows/Lib/test/test_shutil.py

2010-11-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:44, hirokazu.yamamoto wrote: > Author: hirokazu.yamamoto > Date: Fri Nov 26 19:44:28 2010 > New Revision: 86817 > > Log: > Now can reproduce the error on AMD64 Windows Server 2008 > even where os.symlink is not supported. > > > Modified: > python/branches/py3k-stat-on

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86817 - python/branches/py3k-stat-on-windows/Lib/test/test_shutil.py

2010-11-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 13:45, Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote: > On 2010/11/27 3:52, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:44, hirokazu.yamamoto< >> python-check...@python.org >> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> Author: hirokazu.yamamoto &

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86817 - python/branches/py3k-stat-on-windows/Lib/test/test_shutil.py

2010-11-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 14:18, Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote: > On 2010/11/27 5:02, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> We briefly chatted about this on the os.link >> feature issue, but I never found a way around it. >> > > How about implementing os.path.samefile in > Modules/

Re: [Python-Dev] Porting Ideas

2010-12-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:51, Prashant Kumar wrote: > Hello everyone. My name is Prashant. I and my friend Zubin recently > ported 'Configobj'. It would be great if somebody can suggest about > any utilities or scripts that are being widely used and need to be > ported. http://onpython3yet.com/

Re: [Python-Dev] Porting Ideas

2010-12-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 13:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:02:00 -0600 > Brian Curtin wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:51, Prashant Kumar < > contactprashan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. My name is Prashant. I and m

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r87070 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_shutil.py

2010-12-04 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 20:04, hirokazu.yamamoto wrote: > Author: hirokazu.yamamoto > Date: Sun Dec 5 03:04:16 2010 > New Revision: 87070 > > Log: > Now can reproduce the error on AMD64 Windows Server 2008 > even where os.symlink is not supported. > > > Modified: > python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/

Re: [Python-Dev] sqlite, DDL, and transactions

2010-12-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:48, Scott Urban wrote: > Hi > > The python sqlite module automatically commits open transactions > when it encounters a DDL statement. This is unnecessary; DDL is > transaction in my testing (see attached). > > Attached patch addresses the issue. Patch is against 2.6.1

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #6210: Exception Chaining missing method for suppressing context

2010-12-27 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 13:37, Ethan Furman wrote: > I see the last comment was added on the 4th. > > Where should continued discussion take place -- bug-tracker, python-dev, > ... ? > > ~Ethan~ Preferably on the bug tracker as to keep any discussion attached to the issue. If the discussion bec

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello everyone

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:48, yeswanth wrote: > Hello everyone, > My name is Yeswanth . I am doing my third year Btech in Computer Science in > India. My desire is to get into gsoc 2011 . I have been looking over the > projects of last year to see where I would fit in. And I found python to be >

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Start a doc on running and writing unit tests.

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:00, Terry Reedy wrote: > > +Running >> +--- >> > > Is there a way to skip a particular test, such as one that crashes the test > process? -x {list of tests to skip} ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Start a doc on running and writing unit tests.

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Jan 5, 2011 4:45 PM, "Terry Reedy" wrote: > > >> +The shortest, simplest way of running the test suite is:: >> + >> +./python -m test > > > Not on Windows. > C:\Programs\Python32>./python -m test > '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. >

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.2b2 fails test suite on (my) Windows XP

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:47, Terry Reedy wrote: > To test Brett's test running instruction, I ran > python -m test # not ./Python! > in a Command Prompt window > --- > Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] > > == CPython 3.2b2 (r32b2:87398, Dec 19 2010, 22:51:00) > [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.2b2 fails test suite on (my) Windows XP

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:56, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:47, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> To test Brett's test running instruction, I ran >> python -m test # not ./Python! >> in a Command Prompt window >> --- >> Microsoft Windows XP

Re: [Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:20, anatoly techtonik wrote: > There are many API changes and proposals that were forgotten and > didn't get into Python 3, although they should be, because it was the > only chance to change things with backwards compatibility break. For > example http://bugs.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:14, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > >> > >> There are many API changes and proposals that were forgotten and > >> didn't get into Python 3, although they should be, because it was

Re: [Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:14, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > >> > >> This mostly because of limitation of our tracker and desire of people > >> to extend it to get damn "stars", module split

Re: [Python-Dev] Where are Python 2.5.5 binaries for Windows?

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:04, anatoly techtonik wrote: > I need Python 2.5.5 binaries to run Google AppEngine SDK 1.4.1 on > Windows, but can't find them on > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.5/ > > Why are they removed? > -- > anatoly t. Nothing was removed. From that page: "This is

Re: [Python-Dev] Where are Python 2.5.5 binaries for Windows?

2011-01-11 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:56, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:04, anatoly techtonik > > wrote: > >> > >> I need Python 2.5.5 binaries to run Google AppEngine SDK 1.4.1 on

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-01-28 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:12, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Hi, I'd like to > > You probably know that after installation on Windows system it is > possible to call Python from Explorer's Run dialog (Win-R). It is > because Python path is added to App Paths registry key and Windows > Explorer shell

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-01-28 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 14:34, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 28.01.2011 20:29, schrieb Raymond Hettinger: > > At the very least, we should add some prominent instructions for getting > the command line version up and running. > > /me pops out of Guido's time machine and says: "execute > Tools/scri

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI: Remove dependency from win32com.client module (issue4080047)

2011-01-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 14:45, wrote: > There is no b.p.o issue as it's not a bug, but a tiny copy/paste patch > to clean up the code a bit while I am trying to understand how to add > Python to the PATH. > > I see no reason for b.p.o bureaucracy. Mercurial-style workflow [1] is > more beneficial

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-01-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:13, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Ok. Here is the patch. I used Orca to reverse installer tables of > Mercurial MSI and inserted similar entry for Python. > > Also available for review at: http://codereview.appspot.com/4023055 > -- > anatoly t. That's the easy part. It do

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-01-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:43, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:13, anatoly techtonik > > wrote: > >> > >> Ok. Here is the patch. I used Orca to reverse installer tables of >

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial style patch submission (Was: MSI: Remove dependency from win32com.client module (issue4080047))

2011-01-31 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 15:50, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:45:45 + > > techto...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I see no reason for b.p.o bureaucracy. Mercurial-style workflow [1] is > >> more beneficial to development

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI: Remove dependency from win32com.client module (issue4080047)

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 01:35, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Benjamin Peterson > wrote: > > I see no reason for b.p.o bureaucracy. > >>> > >>> It provides a place for discussion, and makes it easier to coordinate > >>> multiple efforts. > >> > >> Code revie

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI: Remove dependency from win32com.client module (issue4080047)

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 09:51, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: > >> To me polluting tracker with the > >> issues that are neither bugs nor feature requests only makes bug > >> triaging p

[Python-Dev] curtin-win2008-amd64 build slave down for a while

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Curtin
I'm having some power issues due to a major snow storm so my build slave is turned off. Don't worry, everyone's favorite OS will be back to work within the next few days. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Generate patches without code checkout (Was: devguide: Write a guide to committing a patch.)

2011-02-02 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 06:50, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, anatoly techtonik > wrote: > >> Making and testing a patch from Python checkout requires compiling > >> Python, which is not possible for Windows use

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 04:14, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Chris Withers > wrote: > >> > >> I've helped quite a few "python newbies" on Windows who are also > >> surprised / frustrated on learning that "python" on the command line > >> doesn't work after installing

Re: [Python-Dev] Finally fix installer to add Python to %PATH% on Windows

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 09:22, Chris Withers wrote: > On 06/02/2011 15:20, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> There are still outstanding considerations in the various issues on the >> tracker, so it would be best to address them before requesting >> integration. Example: What sho

Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 15:22, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" > wrote: > > Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: > >> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like > >> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to r

Re: [Python-Dev] Is Demo directory removed from python3.2 ?

2011-02-21 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 21:02, wen heping wrote: > Hi, > > I found 2 changes in python-3.2 compared to previous python version: > i) Demo directory removed >From the "What's new in 3.2" document: The unmaintained Demo directory has been removed. Some demos were integrated into the documenta

Re: [Python-Dev] Official Roadmap (Re: Let's get PEP 380 into Python 3.3)

2011-03-03 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 06:40, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Guido van Rossum > wrote: > > Now that the language moratorium is lifted, let's make sure to get PEP > > 380 implemented for Python 3.3. > > How about official RoadMap? There is no visibility into what's g

Re: [Python-Dev] Rietveld or Review Board use?

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:05, wrote: > Is Rietveld or Review Board being used within the Python core development > community? I looked at the dev guide but didn't see anything obvious about > code reviews. I don't see how to search the Rietveld instance at > codereview.appspot.com looking just

Re: [Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 16:04, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > Sadly, there seems to be strong resistance to the idea of putting the > Python install directory on the Windows path, of course, without some > additional solutions (python2.exe, python3.exe, etc.), that doesn't help the > multi-version inst

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEPs] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

2011-03-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 09:07, Michael Urman wrote: > I think Glenn Linderman hit the use cases on the head; I'm unclear why > he was against the overhead of a helper executable. Interpreter startup time is increasing with every version IIRC**, so adding another slowdown means we have to step ve

Re: [Python-Dev] CPython hg transition complete

2011-03-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:39, Georg Brandl wrote: > Also please redirect praise to Antoine Pitrou and Dirkjan Ochtman who did > most of the actual work. > > Georg > Many thanks to you three and anyone else who put in effort on this project. It's excellent that this got completed in time for PyCo

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEPs] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

2011-03-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:41, Michael Foord wrote: > I would like to see us create version specific (i.e. python32.exe / > python32w.exe) binaries (or links if we drop support for earlier versions of > Windows or some filesystems - I'm agnostic on that issue) *plus* a > python3.exe / python3w.exe

Re: [Python-Dev] Codereview on bugs.python.org ready for testing again

2011-03-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 09:15, wrote: > >Martin> I ported the code review support on bugs.python.org to hg, and >Martin> reactivated it. Review "issues" are created automatically if the >Martin> attached file is recognized as a patch that applies cleanly. The >Martin> roundup issue

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon blogging?

2011-03-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 15:45, wrote: > Anybody here (or elsewhere) with plans to blog at PyCon for those of us not > going? > > Thx, > > Skip I've been writing a lot lately for the PyCon blog so I might as well keep that up. I'll try to write something up for the language summit, and I imagine

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCObject_AsVoidPtr removed from python 3.2 - is this documented?

2011-03-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 17:05, Greg Ewing wrote: > Many people haven't started using 3.x in earnest yet, and by the > time they do, several major releases will have already gone by. Sounds like motivation to me :) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late" (was: PyCObject_AsVoidPtr removed from python 3.2 - is this documented?)

2011-03-11 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mar 11, 2011 4:52 PM, "Guido van Rossum" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Tim Lesher wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 01:15, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >>> Actually, why not put up a web page of "upcoming changes" somewhere,

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Fix #11509. Significantly increase test coverage for fileinput.

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:44, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:29:59 +0100 > brian.curtin wrote: > > + > > +def test_gz_ext(self): > [...] > > + > > +def test_bz2_ext(self): > [...] > > + > > +def test_Gz_ext(self): > > +self.do_test_use_builtin_open("abcd.Gz",

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Fix #11509. Significantly increase test coverage for fileinput.

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:28, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Brian Curtin > wrote: > > Agreed. I'll rename them to be more expressive. > > Don't forget NEWS and ACKS updates as well. Got the news update in 9448691fe084. Had him in acks f

[Python-Dev] New contributors at the PyCon sprint

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Curtin
Hi all, As I'm sure you're all aware, the PyCon sprints are going on right now and will run for two more days. As a result, you may have noticed an increased number of patches over the last few days -- many of these were from first-time contributors. The turnout for the CPython sprint has been hug

Re: [Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

2011-03-17 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:41, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/03/11 13:35, Jesus Cea wrote: > > Tonight I was thinking about doing a merge inside the branch, to solve > > the "+1 branch". Something like transforming: > > Another thing I was thinking a

Re: [Python-Dev] VM and Language summit info for those not at Pycon (and those that are!)

2011-03-18 Thread Brian Curtin
dlaziness.org/2011/03/python-vm-summit-somewhat-coherent.html > > http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-language-summit-rough-notes.html > > http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-language-summit-highlights.html > > I believe Brian Curtin will also be posting

Re: [Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

2011-03-23 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 16:27, Simon Cross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou > wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:25:01 -0700 > > Ethan Furman wrote: > >> > >> I think the use-case has been lost. Think sprints and multiple push > >> races. No one is arguing that the smoke

Re: [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:40, Jameson Quinn wrote: > "class attrdict" is a perennial dead-end for intermediate pythonistas who > want to save 3 characters/5 keystrokes for item access. Other languages such > as javascript allow "somedict.foo" to mean the same as "somedict['foo']", so > why not py

Re: [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:51, Jameson Quinn wrote: > Consider: > > def fun1(argument): > print argument1 > > fun1(argument="spam") > > def fun2(**kw): > print kw["argument"] > > Why should I need quotes around "argument" in just one of those places? > What if I left them off, and there ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:26, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > One other thing I would hope to be able to do with the list is to try > to stay in touch with new contributors that participate in sprints. > > Cheers, > Nick. This was exactly my thought. We were there in person to get ~10 PyCon sprinters t

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue Tracker

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 15:05, Ethan Furman wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm not sure where the best place is to ask this question, so I'll start > here -- feel free to redirect me if necessary. > > I would like to have some software to keep track of bugs, to-do's, ideas, > etc., etc. -- you know, an

[Python-Dev] Supporting Visual Studio 2010

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Curtin
Would it be reasonable to begin supporting Visual Studio 2010 for Windows builds of 3.3? I now have a personal interest in this happening for some stuff at work, and there's been a lot of questions in the last few months about when we'll support it coming from python-list, #python-dev, and in perso

Re: [Python-Dev] Supporting Visual Studio 2010

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 07:48, wrote: > On 09:55 am, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: > >> Am 05.04.2011 00:21, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: >> >>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:40:33 +0200 >>> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> - users have expressed concerns that they constantly need to upgrade VS releases w

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot status

2011-04-06 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 09:05, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > For the record, we have 9 stable buildbots, one of which is currently > offline: 3 Windows, 2 OS X, 3 Linux and 1 Solaris. > Paul Moore's XP buildbot is back in the stable stable. > (http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/waterfal

Re: [Python-Dev] Code highlighting in tracker

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:22, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Benjamin Peterson > wrote: > > 2011/4/6 anatoly techtonik : > >> Is it a good idea to have code highlighting in tracker? > > > > Why would we need it? > > Because tracker is ugly. It's a bug tracker, not a

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