Re: [Python-Dev] conceptual clarity

2009-09-18 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 at 20:29, Peter Moody wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Andrew McNamara wrote: off to patch the pep and implement some of the non controversial changes. It might be a good idea to add some use-cases to the PEP. There are several use-cases in the PEP already. The p

Re: [Python-Dev] POSIX [Fuzziness in io module specs]

2009-09-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 at 12:31, Pascal Chambon wrote: stream operations into IOErrors. Error codes are not the same as unix ones indeed, but I don't know if it's really important (imo, most people just want to know if the operation was successful, I don't know if many developers scan error codes

Re: [Python-Dev] unsubscriptable vs object does not support indexing

2009-09-22 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 at 02:01, MRAB wrote: Dino Viehland wrote: Is there a reason or a rule by which CPython reports different error message for different failures to subscript? For example: > > > set()[2] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: 'set' object

Re: [Python-Dev] operator precedence of __eq__, __ne__, etc, if both object have implementations

2009-09-24 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 at 12:07, Nick Coghlan wrote: Mark Dickinson wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Dino Viehland wrote: We are going to start contributing tests back real soon now. I'm not sure that these are the best tests to contribute as they require a version of Python to compare ag

Re: [Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7 / buildbots / testing

2009-09-24 Thread R. David Murray
that could run KVM based stuff. --David (R. David Murray)___ 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] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 at 13:59, Peter Moody wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Peter Moody hda3.com> writes: def parse_net_and_addr(s): ?return (IPNetwork(s), IPAddress(s.split('/')[0])) I've only heard talk of new classes and new methods, not new constructor func

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 05:57, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: Finally, to Stephen's point about seeing the other side of the argument, I wrote this offlist a week ago: I *understand* what you're saying, I *understand* that 192.168.1.1/24 isn't a network, But you still want to treat it as one. Coul

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 07:34, R. David Murray wrote: The fundamental divide here is between two behaviors. ipaddr: > > > x = IPv4Network('192.168.1.1/24') > > > y = IPv4Network('192.168.1.0/24') > > > x == y False >

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 at 10:06, David Moss wrote: On 27 Sep 2009, at 07:56, "Martin v. L??wis" wrote: I wouldn't ask for that: it should certainly be possible to supply masks. However, I would want to reject masks that don't correspond to a prefix, and have only the prefix length in the intern

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 22:11, "Martin v. L??wis" wrote: Martin v. L??wis v.loewis.de> writes: Could you explain what benefit there is for allowing the user to create network objects that don't represent networks? Is there a use-case where these networks-that-aren't-networks are something other

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 22:32, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le lundi 28 septembre 2009 ?? 22:11 +0200, "Martin v. L??wis" a ??crit : That's not the question that was asked, though - the question asked was "Under what circumstances would I want to specify...". I hope most people agree that it is desirab

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-28 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 13:43, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:36 PM, R. David Murray wrote: I would say that there certainly are precedents in other areas for keeping the information about the input form around. For example, occasionally it would be handy if parsing a hex

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 at 14:19, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: In addition to the somebody-must-have-mentioned-this-already feeling that I got, I hesitated to post this message because it doesn't actually seem that important to me. While I'm firmly convinced that Network.ip is a design mistake, it's not l

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 at 15:24, R. David Murray wrote: There's one place in this code where the inclusion of the 'ip' information in the IPNetwork class could have been used. In the line that allows ICMP traffic to the router's outside port, I could have written 'inside.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 at 11:07, Nick Coghlan wrote: At the risk of bikeshedding a bit, I'm still somewhat uncomfortable with the "net.network" and "net.ip" attribute names. RDMs example application elicited the reason for that discomfort pretty well: the current naming seems like an invitation to w

Re: [Python-Dev] Python logging and 1.5.2 compatibility

2009-09-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 at 13:27, Vinay Sajip wrote: I'm planning to "officially" drop support for Python 1.5.2 in the logging package. What's the minimum version of Python that the logging module now officially supports? --David (RDM) ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 at 10:52, Paul Moore wrote: 2009/9/30 Mark Dickinson : Please could someone who understands the uses of IPNetwork better than I do explain why the following wouldn't be a significant problem, if __eq__ and __hash__ were modified to disregard the .ip attribute as suggested:

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 at 13:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Mark Dickinson wrote: Okay, so maybe this is an abuse of IPv4Network. ?But I'd (mis?)understood that the retention of the .ip att

Re: [Python-Dev] summary of transitioning from % to {} formatting

2009-10-03 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 at 17:08, Paul Moore wrote: 2009/10/3 Antoine Pitrou : Steven Bethard gmail.com> writes: ? If %-formatting is to be deprecated, the transition strategy here ? is trivial. However, no one has yet written translators, and it is ? not clear what heuristics should be used, e.g.

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 at 12:57, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tarek Ziad? wrote: I still need to do some more tests, I didn't have time to try the various projects under win32. It's planned to night. The tests are consisting of compiling and insatling a dozain of projects on l

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:27, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? IMO this question is appropriate for python-dev, not python-ideas. --David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:55, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why used this list. python-ideas: This list is to

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug 7183 and Python 2.6.4

2009-10-22 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 at 13:16, Tres Seaver wrote: The fix for 5890 has a funny "smell" to me: copying __doc__ into the instance dict just feels wrong. How does that work with a pure Python class using slots? E.g.: It doesn't. There's even a test to make sure it doesn't :) (It raises an attrib

Re: [Python-Dev] "Buildbot" category on the tracker

2009-10-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 at 19:41, Jesse Noller wrote: Then again, I know for a fact certain tests fail ONLY on certain buildbots because of the way they're configured. For example, certain multiprocessing tests will fail if /dev/shm isn't accessible on Linux, and several of the buildbosts are in tigh

Re: [Python-Dev] "Buildbot" category on the tracker

2009-10-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 08:55, Jesse Noller wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:53 AM, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: I'm confused: first you said they fail, now you say they get skipped. Which one is it? I agree with R. David's analysis: if they fail, it's a multiprocessing bug, if they get skipped, it'

Re: [Python-Dev] "Buildbot" category on the tracker

2009-10-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 09:57, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: But the real reason for having a buildbot category (or at least a keyword) would be to be able to tag all bugs that are currently making buildbots fail that are _not_ the result of a recent checkin. This would make the task of finding the bu

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 19:46, Paul Moore wrote: 2009/10/30 C. Titus Brown : Once things are up and running, I'll be prepared to do basic care and feeding of the buildslave, but as my time is limited, it would be nice if others would pitch in to help. I would be somewhat unhappy about giving mo

Re: [Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x?

2009-11-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 at 10:09, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: [Guido van Rossum] I'm -0 on backporting nonlocal to 2.7. I could be +0 if we added "from __future__ import nonlocal_keyword" (or some such phrasing) to enable it. With the "from

Re: [Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x?

2009-11-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 at 22:17, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: I don't currently have an opinion on this backport proposal, but in regard to this argument: if we do not do any 2.x releases after 2.7, then over time the number of packages that can afford to drop 2.6 support will grow, yet many will need t

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 at 22:06, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: BeautifulSoup, which I use every day, is one such product. ?Since the crappy old SMGL parser's gone, BeautifulSoup uses the one that's left in Python 3 and it makes BeautifulSoup comp

[Python-Dev] Status of the Buildbot fleet and related bugs

2009-11-05 Thread R. David Murray
The buildbot waterfall is much greener now. Thanks to all who have contributed to making it so (and it hasn't just been Mark and Antoine and I, though we've been the most directly active (and yes, Mark, you did contribute several fixes!)). The 'stable builders' fleet is green now except for:

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of the Buildbot fleet and related bugs

2009-11-08 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 at 19:44, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: JFTR, I didn't set up the IRC bot (I assume that credit goes to Martin, even if it's only one line in the buildbot config :). I just tried to get it to say something :) Yes, it was always "on". I don't use IRC regularly, so I don't know whe

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 at 15:42, Terry Reedy wrote: Part of the pypi problem is a startup problem of initially low numbers. If the only people who bother to log in to rate are the disgruntled, then the ratings/reviews will be biased. I wonder how many of the people promoting the new feature have t

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of the Buildbot fleet and related bugs

2009-11-13 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 at 00:09, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Martin v. L??wis v.loewis.de> writes: The buildbots still show occasional oddities. For example, right now in the page "http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x/";, some results have disappeared (the columns for "AMD64 Ubuntu" builders have be

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of the Buildbot fleet and related bugs

2009-11-15 Thread R. David Murray
There are non-stable buildbots that are failing consistently, but this message is about something else. Now that the biggest stability issues have been addressed some less-noisy stability issues are visible. The two that I have noticed most often are test_httpsservers, which hangs occasionally, a

Re: [Python-Dev] new unbounded memory leak in exception handling?

2009-11-17 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 at 10:31, Greg Hewgill wrote: I've constructed an example program that does not leak memory in Python 2.x, but causes unbounded memory allocation in Python 3.1. Here is the code: import gc import sys class E(Exception): def __init__(self, fn): self.fn = fn def c

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest/doctest formatting differences in 2.7a1?

2009-12-09 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:23:11 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote: > If the exception format has changed, I consider it a bug. Possibly a > bug in doctest, as the only way to test for exceptions in that case is > like this: > > >>> try: > ... throw_an_exception() > ... print "Did not t

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 386 for addition

2009-12-10 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:49:33 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tarek_Ziad=E9?= wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > I don't see any information in the PEP for alternate proposals that were > > made during its drafting. It's customary to explain what alternative > > proposals ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Renewal of the 1-for-5 offer (was: [issue1644818] Allow importing built-in submodules)

2009-12-19 Thread R. David Murray
#x27;d also like to point out that IMO the idea behind the one-for-five offer is to leverage the "I have an itch to scratch" energy to the benefit of all and, just as important (and as Martin already pointed out), perhaps set some new people on the path to b

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

2009-12-28 Thread R. David Murray
>=, etc, operators, so I think talking about changing the proposed syntax radically is probably misplaced. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls

Re: [Python-Dev] bug triage

2010-01-06 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:41:28 +, Chris Withers wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the bugs list is still the primary spooled notification > > mechanism: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-bugs-list > > That's what I was after, thanks! Just for completeness, ther

Re: [Python-Dev] bug triage

2010-01-06 Thread R. David Murray
le if you grant him tracker privs. Brian, I assume you'll be cognizant of Antoine's advice about making sure a bug really should be closed before closing it :) Hanging out in #python-dev on freenode while working on issues can be helpful, as well, since you can quickly ask whoever is there

Re: [Python-Dev] topics I plan to discuss at the language summit

2010-01-12 Thread R. David Murray
theory is that we close a lot of bugs fairly promptly, but the ones in the above categories make the average age of *open* issues high. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process Automation - Network/Server Management - Routers/Firewalls (*) For

Re: [Python-Dev] topics I plan to discuss at the language summit

2010-01-12 Thread R. David Murray
al. By the way, you could talk to people who aren't going to be at the summit on #python-dev; I think all the currently tracker-active people hang out there on a regular basis. I'll have to give some thought to what changes/improvements might be most useful, now that I've been doi

[Python-Dev] PYTHON3PATH

2010-01-13 Thread R. David Murray
the transition to python3. It could be that "use virtualenv" is the best answer, but I feel we should think about it carefully to make sure that is really true. [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2375 -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com Business Process

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-18 Thread R. David Murray
r operations you might otherwise perform at the shell command line using OS facilities. As far as I can tell, archive_util does the same, and seems quite within the shutil mission of "high level file operations". So +1 from me for putting thes

Re: [Python-Dev] Mailing List archive corruption?

2010-01-19 Thread R. David Murray
ewly regenerated article > numbers matched the originals. I'd highly recommend going through that > painful process, since I suspect a *lot* of people have links to the > python-dev archive. Hope you have a backup (or can find caches on > google or archive.org or someth

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

2010-01-30 Thread R. David Murray
implementation in the import machinery. > * Would a moratorium on byte code changes, similar to the language > moratorium described in PEP 3003 [16]_ be a better approach to > pursue, and would that solve the problem for vendors? At the time > of this writing, PEP 3003 is s

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

2010-01-30 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:37:32 -0800, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Vitor Bosshard wrote: > > A trickier case: My GUI app offers scripting facilities. The > > associated open file dialog hides all .pyc files, and users select > > just from .py files. if subfolders are in

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

2010-01-31 Thread R. David Murray
> > I don't know whether I in favour of using a single pyr folder or not > > but if a single folder is used I'd definitely prefer the folder to be > > called __pyr__ rather than .pyr. > > And to come complete with standard library functions to find

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

2010-01-31 Thread R. David Murray
Python version. Or is something missing from my understanding? If not, I think the motivation section should address why the PEP is a better idea than improving the os packaging systems as I've suggested. (The os vendors are going to have to change details of their packaging systems if the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3147: PYC Repository Directories

2010-01-31 Thread R. David Murray
at > need to be solved, and an explanation of why each individual solution > has flaws, prepare for this conversation to take a few more weeks. Well, I certainly don't want the conversation to take a few more months. I'm not against the PEP, I'

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-10 Thread R. David Murray
se makes managing the test data easier, and makes it available to other test frameworks to reuse the data. So, having the connection to the database set up once at TestCase start, and closed at TestCase end, would make the most sense. Currently there's no way I know of to do that, so

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.5

2010-02-10 Thread R. David Murray
lpful you'll get noticed and offered tracker privs and be able to help even more. Related to this is the offer that Martin made and I have seconded: if someone wants attention paid to a particular issue, review five others and let Martin and/or I

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-11 Thread R. David Murray
the code than the equivalent setUp and tearDown methods would be. I'm not saying it would be easy to implement, and as you say backward compatibility is a key concern. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _

Re: [Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

2010-02-11 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:08:54 +, Michael Foord wrote: > On 11/02/2010 15:56, R. David Murray wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:41:37 +, Michael > > Foord wrote: > >> On 11/02/2010 12:30, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>> The test framework might promi

Re: [Python-Dev] Update xml.etree.ElementTree for Python 2.7 and 3.2

2010-02-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:40:00 +0100, wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:46:41 +0100, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > >>> It's time to comment and review. > >> Unfortunately, it's not. I strongly object to any substantial change to > >> the code base without explicit approval by

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal for virtualenv functionality in Python

2010-02-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:35:42 -0700, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > On 2/19/10, P.J. Eby wrote: > > At 01:49 PM 2/19/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > >>I'm not sure how this should best work on Windows (without symlinks, > >>and where things generally work differently), but I would hope if > >>this idea is

[Python-Dev] 'languishing' status for the tracker

2010-02-21 Thread R. David Murray
I believe Brett mentioned the 'languishing' status for the tracker in passing in his notes from the language summit. To expand on this: the desire for this arises from the observation that we have a lot of bugs in the tracker that we don't want to close, because they are real bugs or non-crazy enh

Re: [Python-Dev] 'languishing' status for the tracker

2010-02-22 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:28:41 +, Florent Xicluna wrote: > R. David Murray bitdance.com> writes: > > > I believe Brett mentioned the 'languishing' status for the tracker in > > passing in his notes from the language summit. > > I see a bunch of e

Re: [Python-Dev] 'languishing' status for the tracker

2010-02-22 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:35:03 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 22.02.2010 21:28, schrieb Florent Xicluna: > > I did not find any documentation about them in both places: > > * http://wiki.python.org/moin/TrackerDocs/ "Tracker documentation" > > * http://www.python.org/dev/workflow/ "Issue workflow

Re: [Python-Dev] contributor to committer

2010-02-24 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:13:10 +, Florent Xicluna wrote: > I am a semi-regular contributor for Python: I have contributed many patches > since end of last year, some of them were reviewed by Antoine. > Lately, he suggested that I should apply for commit rights. +1 --David

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

2010-03-07 Thread R. David Murray
dule was about or what a 'future' was, or why I would want to use one. I did get that it was about parallel execution of tasks, but it seemed like there had to be more to it than that. Hearing it called a 'worker pool' makes a lightbulb go off

Re: [Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

2010-03-09 Thread R. David Murray
ool_argument('--plot') > > > > +1, this looks good. > > I've added it to the argparse bugtracker, along with my suggested spelling > add_flag(): > >http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=62 Shou

Re: [Python-Dev] __file__ and bytecode-only

2010-03-14 Thread R. David Murray
he discussion should be added to the PEP, or a summary of it. If I remember correctly the BDFL even weighed in on this point. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker reviews workflow and flags

2010-03-19 Thread R. David Murray
oesn't always happen when it should. The roundup code lives in the SVN repository, and you can set up your own instance of the tracker to experiment with changes. Patches are welcome, although we have a few in the meta-tracker[1] already that haven't been reviewed. Currently Martin is p

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker reviews workflow and flags

2010-03-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:09:28 -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 3/19/2010 10:22 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > >> This can be done by anyone just by saying, eg: 'see issue 1234' (roundup > >> turns that into

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker reviews workflow and flags

2010-03-19 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:58 -0400, "A.M. Kuchling" wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:22:05AM -0400, R. David Murray wrote: > > > Real world example with issue8151. It is an issue with a trivial patch > > > in it. Everything what is needed is to dispatch it to

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal & amp; lt; -& amp; gt; float comparisons in py3k.

2010-03-19 Thread R. David Murray
ost people will expect. In fact, only mathematicians are likely to know that any other situation could possibly be valid. Programmers are generally going to view it as a bug. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker reviews workflow and flags

2010-03-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:20:52 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I will not go into details here beyond referring to > http://bugs.python.org/issue8154, but if you follow the link, you'll > see that there was not a consensus on how the issue should be > addressed and even whether or not it was a

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker opened/closed issue list: missing?

2010-03-20 Thread R. David Murray
ne. > > > > Terry Jan Reedy > > > > I actually haven't seen that mail in a few weeks (subscribed to the list via > my gmail account). Darn. I bet I broke it when I added the 'languishing' status. I even thought about that at the time but didn't follow up

Re: [Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot

2010-03-21 Thread R. David Murray
atever result number you are looking at. And to have doing so trigger an exception if requested by the programmer. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://

Re: [Python-Dev] __pycache__ creation

2010-03-22 Thread R. David Murray
the core. It can be part of distutils, or of a separate module, or > delegated to third-party tools. It could even be as simple as > "python -m compileall --pycache", if someone implements it. Or even as simple as 'mkdir __pycache__', if you are work

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for commit access

2010-03-23 Thread R. David Murray
onsive to feedback. And we need more Windows devs :) -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] 5 : 1

2010-04-02 Thread R. David Murray
;m in GMT -4) if I can (and I think I can). -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] 5 : 1

2010-04-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:06:28 -, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > R. David Murray bitdance.com> writes: > > > > On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:05:28 +0300, anatoly techtonik > gmail.com> wrote: > > > I reviewed 5 issues and want to see http://bugs.python.org/issue7

[Python-Dev] iso-2022 and issue 7472: question for the experts

2010-04-06 Thread R. David Murray
alid 8bit data. So I think this patch should just be reverted. Can someone (Steve Turnbull?) confirm or refute my analysis? -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:

Re: [Python-Dev] iso-2022 and issue 7472: question for the experts

2010-04-06 Thread R. David Murray
That is, it would have to be already encoded, and the encode('ascii') trick is just to see if there are any 8 bit bytes. Tracing the code a little farther, though, I now understand that the *input* encoding that the payload is in (which will on ou

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] stabilizing for a release

2010-04-07 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:54:51 +0100, Michael Foord wrote: >On 07/04/2010 11:30, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> There is still a serious regression in zipfile module: >> http://bugs.python.org/issue6090 >> >> And I would really like to see my issue with difflib tabs committed: =/ >> http://bugs.python

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-12 Thread R. David Murray
aps it's that we haven't had devs who were specifically tracking those platforms... We can add additional components if the community sees a need for them. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-13 Thread R. David Murray
t so they can do triage) can do triage. There are a batch of us that hang out on #python-dev and also monitor the new bugs and/or the full bugs list, and triage issues as we have time. If you want to help out, come talk to us on #python-dev (on freenode), and start reviewing issues and suggesting

Re: [Python-Dev] OS information, tags

2010-04-13 Thread R. David Murray
itters as a whole would find most useful. As I said in another note, I think having a separate OS selection would cause just as many triage issues as the current setup does. So the question is, what would developers and bug searchers/submitters find useful? That said, it's easier

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

2010-04-14 Thread R. David Murray
my time? > > In my case it was not a waste of time. I use MSDN for dev and testing. Just > not > for release building. Ditto. Without the license I wouldn't have a Windows machine that I could run tests on at all (I run the OS in KVM instances). -- R. David Murray

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

2010-04-26 Thread R. David Murray
g the way...or be mentored by #python-dev as a whole if they hang out there. In other words, I think the goal is not just to add new developers to the community, but to continue to build a strong community of developers. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
ped in certain cases, I'm not going to block that consensus or get mad about it...but I don't think we have a developing consensus right now, and I'm not sure how to move forward on that. For the record, note that both Antoine and I have been in

Re: [Python-Dev] Assigned To field usage (was: Enhanced tracker privileges)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
ly working on the issue really needs the other person's input in order to move forward. But these are my own rules of thumb, and a discussion of how best to use this field may be appropriate. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com __

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
d with that priority. That way, those issues don't appear > as if they had recent activity. +1 This will make the default grouping more useful, since now critical issues will appear at the top, instead of several pages in! -- R. David Murray www.bitdan

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
will be. And those people who do a good job making patches commit ready will be on the fast track to getting commit privileges. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com PS: note that I'm using 'commit review' above with a different sense than that

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

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:34:48 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > R. David Murray wrote: > > And I at > > least am in the mode of *discussing* it, not speaking from a position set > > in stone...if the consensus that develops is that the familiarization > > period can be skippe

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
triage, of course. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
t would be better to encourage people to post the unit tests and the fix as separate patch files. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
it is on Brett's list to update that doc, but maybe we should help him out :). Can you list what's missing? We should fill in the gaps. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-De

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

2010-04-28 Thread R. David Murray
ot a *net cost*. AFAICS, the "quantity" camp sees it as a > nearly pure loss, simply slowing down inflow of preexisting "merit" > (and perhaps discouraging it entirely). Except for the "vehemently" part, I think that's an accurate summary of my position. --

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-28 Thread R. David Murray
to > have defaults for? (I would submit each as a separate patch.) As far as I can see none of the other fields should have a default value. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Frequency of the dev docs autobuild

2010-04-29 Thread R. David Murray
t written down somewhere and I've just forgotten where to > look...) I don't think so, but it should be. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] please take a look at buildbot result [was: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)]

2010-04-29 Thread R. David Murray
arwin? The readline > on Darwin isn't what Python wants. I think someone fixed readline to work with Darwin's readline, at least in theory. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] The Meaning of Resolotion (Re: bug tracker permissions request)

2010-04-29 Thread R. David Murray
x27;open' or of 'closed'? Open. > > and they explain why an issue was closed. > > This needs to be explicitly stated in the doc if you want it followed. > > In response to my repeating this on the tracker, > bugs.python.org/issue7511 > R. David Murray said (i

Re: [Python-Dev] The Meaning of Resolotion (Re: bug tracker permissions request)

2010-04-29 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:17:02 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > R. David Murray wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:11:57 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 4/27/2010 5:14 PM, "Martin v. Loewis" wrote: > >>> You only have resolutions on closed issues, > >

Re: [Python-Dev] please take a look at buildbot result [w as: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)]

2010-04-29 Thread R. David Murray
gs for these, please? The first and last others should be able to replicate easily; the middle one will probably require your help on the machine in question to debug. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Frequency of the dev docs autobuild

2010-05-01 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:35:04 +0200, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 29.04.2010 13:40, schrieb R. David Murray: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:16:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Does the online dev version of the docs build in response to docs > >> checkins, or just once a day?

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