Re: [Python-Dev] patch to make list.pop(0) work in O(1) time

2010-01-27 Thread Virgil Dupras
t of uses, but it should be an external class. If it stays close in behavior to the lists' behavior, then we could even add a notice in pop()'s documentation that recommends to use your new class in case they want a painless way to replace list usage (to make the life of those poor developers

Re: [Python-Dev] Licensing

2010-07-06 Thread Virgil Dupras
think that GPL license allows money-making that BSD type wouldn't allow. Hence the common point of view saying "BSD-type is more commercial-friendly than GPL". I've written an article last year that, while it doesn't address this issue specifically, it touches it. htt

Re: [Python-Dev] [issue8033] sqlite: broken long integer handling for arguments to user-defined functions

2011-01-05 Thread Virgil Dupras
busy, he won't have time for this. So your best bet for this fix to be checked in is to add a test, but even then, sometimes, patches fade into oblivion and you might have to regularly "freshen" your diff to match with the trunk so it applies cleanly. Virgil Dupras

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

2011-01-07 Thread Virgil Dupras
f a patch being created very much. Maybe you can point to a google code project for which starring is used intensively and to observably good results? Virgil Dupras ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

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

2011-02-01 Thread Virgil Dupras
roundup/meta/ The mailing list about the tracker is: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss As for the "mailing list/patch" proposal, I think you should drop it. It's been made abundantly clear, by people much more knowledgable about the dev process of Python than

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

2008-02-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/18/08, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Don't now if always, or in the last few months where I've been > following the issues more closely, but I found that are appearing a > lot of small RFEs in the tracker. > > These normally are small but not trivial things. In most case

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

2008-02-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/18/08, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 11:11 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > > -On [20080218 13:38], Virgil Dupras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >P

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

2008-02-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/18/08, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I appreciate the desire to "keep the issue tracker clean", but I think > human intelligence needs to be applied to the task, not just a > date-based cutoff. Personally, the bug count doesn't bother me. I was just responding to Brett's concerns

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

2008-02-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/18/08, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure we should be throwing RFE's away with such casual abandon > just because nobody had time to pay them any attention in six months - > nor bugs neither, come to that. Well, we have to evaluate the chances of our older tickets to come

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

2008-02-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/19/08, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, we have to evaluate the chances of our older tickets to come to > > completion. I'm of the opinion that ticket getting older have very > > small chances of ever being completed. RFE for python 2.4 are likely > > to be irrelevant. >

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

2008-02-19 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/19/08, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I don't, which is why I would find it interesting to run some > > queries on the roundup database to have completion statistics for low > > activity tickets. Is is possible to get a copy of that db somehow? > > I would rather not make

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

2008-02-19 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/19/08, Virgil Dupras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > closed_status = db.status.lookup('chatting') Oops, replace 'chatting' with 'closed' Virgil ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail

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

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/21/08, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - no selection -118 > wont fix189 > works for me62 > accepted310 > fixed 611 > duplicate 75 > later 17 > invalid 73 > postponed 6 > out of date 193 > remind 1 > rejected18

[Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
Hi devs, Being a python dev newbie, I look in http://www.python.org/dev/ for some guide to write unit tests in python and I can't find any. Specifically, I'd like to know about files managements in tests. Is every test expected to clean after itself, or is there an automatic cleanup mechanism in p

Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/21/08, Virgil Dupras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Being a python dev newbie, I look in http://www.python.org/dev/ for > some guide to write unit tests in python and I can't find any. > Specifically, I'd like to know about files managements in t

Re: [Python-Dev] Unit Test Guide

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/21/08, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Virgil Dupras wrote: > > On 2/21/08, Virgil Dupras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> Being a python dev newbie, I look in http://www.python.org/dev/ for > >> some

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

2008-02-21 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/21/08, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the result for the "open" status issues? I guess not, because > the rejected, fixed, etc, should be closed. > > Could you run this again, please, but filtering by "open" tickets? I don't see why would want to run this query on open

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

2008-02-23 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2/23/08, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have over 1,700 open issues - bug reports, feature requests and > patches - in our bug tracker. In my humble opinion it's a sure sign for > a problem. There is also 12000 closed tickets, with 1200 of them having been closed in the last

[Python-Dev] test_support.have_unicode

2008-03-18 Thread Virgil Dupras
er have_unicode is relevant or not, is it more appropriate to create a ticket for it or to ask python-dev? Virgil Dupras ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyt

[Python-Dev] Py3k DeprecationWarning in stdlib

2008-06-24 Thread Virgil Dupras
d somewhere else, I searched for an answer but I couldn't find it. Additionally, one thing that strikes me as strange is how hard it is to find a "Migration guide" on the website. I had to dig in the PEP 3000 to find the brief bullet list telli

Re: [Python-Dev] Py3k DeprecationWarning in stdlib

2008-06-24 Thread Virgil Dupras
7;s about time I try to learn reST... Virgil Dupras ___ 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] Weak Dictionary Iteration Behavior in Python 3

2008-09-13 Thread Virgil Dupras
I would also like to point out that I submitted a patch related to that a couple of months ago in: http://bugs.python.org/issue839159 But it never got any attention :( I'm not sure if it is still relevant. Virgil On 13-Sep-08, at 10:20 PM, Armin Ronacher wrote: Hi everybody, In Python

Re: [Python-Dev] "as" keyword woes

2008-12-06 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 06 Dec 2008, at 20:38, Warren DeLano wrote: Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:22:38 -0800 From: Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "as" keyword woes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm still in the dark as to what type of data could even inspire the us

Re: [Python-Dev] Should we move to replace re with regex?

2011-08-27 Thread Virgil Dupras
On 2011-08-27, at 2:20 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:48, Dan Stromberg wrote: > No, this was not the intent of __future__. The intent is that a > feature is desirable but also backwards incompatible (e.g. introduce