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

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
proposal... Paranthetically, wrt unittest, the world seems to be divided into two kinds of people : those who find the current API uninspiring but ok, and those who absolutely hate it. Has anyone said that they *love* the current unittest API with all of it

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

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, C. Titus Brown wrote: -> At this point I might suggest taking a look at the nose and py.test -> discovery rules and writing a simple test discovery system to find & -> wrap 'test_' functions/classes and doctests in a unittest wrap

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

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
eline for unittest. Having *one* Python-general way to name your test files and test functions/classes that is also compatible across nose, py.test, and unittest would be a real gain for Python, IMO. You could even set the default unittest __main__ to run the discover_tests function, e.g.

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

2008-08-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
-Dev two or three weeks ago (you can't miss it in the July archives, I'd bet). You should read that IMO. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
s-platform object store backend distributed with Python. sqlite could be one choice, but I haven't used it much yet, so I don't know. thanks, --titus [0] Python graph database for bioinformatics, http://code.google.com/p/pygr -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
or example, all of this is -> abstracted and you simply use "regular" python objects. I agree. I like bsddb for just this reason and I'd like to continue being able to use it! I think that there are many reasons why having such

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
I'm teaching an intro programming course using Python. It doesn't seem like the students are going to need to install *anything* other than base Python in order to play with full networking libraries & sqlite databases, among other features. And, for me and for them, that's

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:01:35AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: -> At 7:37 AM -0700 9/4/08, C. Titus Brown wrote: -> >On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: -> ... -> >-> Shipping an application to end users is a different problem. Such packages -&

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: -> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -> Hash: SHA1 -> -> C. Titus Brown wrote: -> > Since I/we want to distribute pygr to end-users, this is really not a -> > pleasant prospect. Also often the installati

Re: [Python-Dev] Using Cython for standard library?

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
ng about that... ...or is switching to Cython/Pyrex/foo a non-starter? cheers, --titus [0] Which is to say: a variety of reasons, many of which are obviously arguable, otherwise the Pyrex maintainer would have quit maintaining Pyrex :). But let's not go into them! -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PR

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
ere are reasons why git should be at least strongly considered. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
from darcs for all my future projects. (darcs, of course, is kind of a low bar: it has some scalability issues, and it is feature-poor relative to hg and bzr in patch cherry-picking, esp.) :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Using Cython for standard library?

2008-11-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
sion is a good test suite for your code to -> make sure it keeps working as expected when you update your compiler. Hey, wait, isn't that also a requirement for Py3k? :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
y to -> another, writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues. There must be -> lots of people who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the -> most effective way they can reach that goal. Does anyone smell a few GSoC projects? (And maybe GHOP if Google decides to run it aga

Re: [Python-Dev] #include "Python.h"

2012-01-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
core for example.. python-dev isn't that inappropriate, IMO, but probably the best place to go with this discussion is python-ideas. Could you repost over there? cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
of several > modules. I see the point, but as a reasonably knowledgeable Python programmer (intelligent? who knows...) I regularly discover nifty new modules that "replace" stdlib modules. It'd be nice to have pointers in the docs, although that runs the risk of having the point

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:42:55AM +0200, Eli Bendersky wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:25, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > I see the point, but as a reasonably knowledgeable Python programmer > > (intelligent? who knows...) I regularly discover nifty new modules > > that &qu

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub mirror (Was: Bitbucket mirror?)

2012-07-05 Thread C. Titus Brown
part of a streamlined process, would it cause problems? (What I'm really asking is whether or the bugs.python.org process is considered critical for potentially minor doc changes and additions.) thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite build slaves and developer SSH/GPG public keys

2012-08-24 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Giampaolo Rodol? wrote: > > For committers on other Python projects like Buildbot, Django and > > Twisted that may be reading this -- yes, the plan is to give you > > guys Snakebite access/slaves down the track too. I'll start looking > > i

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-ideas] Re: Amend PEP-8 to require clear, understandable comments instead of Strunk & White Standard English comments

2020-06-29 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-Dev
Hi all, as a moderator of python-ideas, I’ve asked postmaster to place python-ideas into emergency moderation. (I do not have the tools to do so myself.) I’m willing to review messages individually as needed. best, —titus > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > wrote: > >

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