Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon Keynote

2010-01-25 Thread David Lyon
> At 03:15 PM 1/26/2010 +1100, David Lyon wrote: >>With all due respect, that process is a bit like a black magic >>approach. Maybe the capability is there, but it isn't very well >>documented and it isn't obvious. > > I don't see what's so hard abo

Re: [Python-Dev] PyCon Keynote

2010-01-25 Thread David Lyon
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:27, David Lyon > wrote: >> Secondly, I never knew about it. > > Why did you say the process was like black magic when you didn't know > about it? > > Is this a distutils option? > > No, it's new in Python 2.6, which Nick Cogh

Re: [Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-26 Thread David Lyon
.rpm's respectively. But overall, I think this discussion is going in the right direction. I hope Tarek can pick up on it and fnd a way to work it into distutils if he has time as it does need to have a home to live. David ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-26 Thread David Lyon
quot; And then; "How do you check if a .py is a .py?" Whereas, if you just associate to a .egg or a .eag or some other extension suffix, it just keeps things very orthodox and you can have a visual queue (for users with gui- interfaces). It also makes distribution on pypi and the like muc

Re: [Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-27 Thread David Lyon
e more than welcome to join in and help on my community project shown above. I have to keep my postings to a minimum here, because (rightly) I've been told to code and not blab, blab, blab all the time. But I'm happy because every now and again something I say gets picked up and put into action. Best Regards David ___ 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] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-27 Thread David Lyon
lt to get the build and collection process done in the setup.py. That is quite difficult. So it is all there, just slightly warped. It will be interesting to see if there will be any windows work done in the upcoming distutils revamp. We'll just have to wait and see. David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-27 Thread David Lyon
;t understand why anybody wouldn't want that. See a package on pypi, click to download it, get prompted to install it. It could all be just so simple. David ___ 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] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-27 Thread David Lyon
ly, there are too many people out there who would notice if a big change was made.. These are the major reasons why significant direction change is difficult. Lack of information on the state of pypi packages. Hope that answers David David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Executing zipfiles and directories (was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-27 Thread David Lyon
The install tools that I know are NSIS, Wise, InnoSetup and perphaps a few others if I thought back. So when it comes to installation tools, I've done enough to know that sticking a python app in a zip box is good and that without the Microsoft SDK or some derivative tool, your chances of building a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-27 Thread David Malcolm
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:46 -0800, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > > I'm a relative outsider to core development (I'm just a Plone release > > manager), but'll allow myself a couple of questions. Feel free to > > ignore them, if you think they

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-27 Thread David Malcolm
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:34 -0800, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Collin Winter > wrote: > > We absolutely do not want CPython to include a copy of LLVM in its > > source tree. Unladen Swallow has done this to make it easier to pick > > up changes to LLVM's codebase as

Re: [Python-Dev] scripts, applets, and applications (Was Re: PyCon Keynote)

2010-01-28 Thread David Lyon
p box' applet support into a form that is more ready for developers to start using. I think it needs more tests, more examples, more documentation to show what a wonderfully useful thing it could be. David David ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] IO module improvements

2010-02-05 Thread David Cournapeau
cess-specific table. AFAIK, they aren't simple indexes in windows, and that's partly why even file descriptors cannot be safely passed between C runtimes on windows (whereas they can in most unices). David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] IO module improvements

2010-02-06 Thread David Cournapeau
s emulated by win32. Only HANDLE is considered "native" (can be passed freely however you want within one process). cheers, David ___ 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] math.hypot, complex.__abs__, and documentation

2010-02-16 Thread David DiCato
2.6 and 3.1 states, "All functions return a quiet NaN if at least one of the args is NaN." math.pow(1.0, nan) is another such exception to the rule. Perhaps the documentation should be updated to reflect this. Thanks, - David ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] math.hypot, complex.__abs__, and documentation

2010-02-16 Thread David DiCato
Ok, thanks! It's submitted as issue 7947. - David -Original Message- From: Mark Dickinson [mailto:dicki...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:15 PM To: David DiCato Cc: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] math.hypot, complex.__abs__, and documentation On Tue

Re: [Python-Dev] math.hypot, complex.__abs__, and documentation

2010-02-16 Thread David DiCato
w(1.0, float('nan')); the second argument simply doesn't matter when the first is 1.0. FWIW, these conventions also exist in the C99 standard. Hope this helps, - David -Original Message- From: python-dev-bounces+ddicato=microsoft@python.org [mailto:python-dev-boun

Re: [Python-Dev] __file__

2010-02-27 Thread David Bolen
ul to continue to support executing them directly outside of any new cache location, which it sounds like is the direction being taken. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] Packaging JIT-less versions of Python

2010-03-01 Thread David Malcolm
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:35 -0800, Collin Winter wrote: > Hey packaging guys, > > We recently committed a change to Unladen Swallow [1] that moves all > the JIT infrastructure into a Python extension module. The theory [2] > behind this patch was that this would make it easier for downstream > pac

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3188: Implementation Questions

2010-03-03 Thread David Cournapeau
nge - if you want to do arithmetic on long double, then the user of the buffer protocol would have to implement it by himself (like NumPy does ATM). So the important thing is to have enough information to use the long double: alignment and size are not enough. cheers, David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

2010-03-08 Thread David Stanek
demand, we could rename them to argparse.StoreTrueAction, etc. > Any reason not to do something like: from argparse import actions ... parser.add_argument('--plot', actions.store_true) Basically a small namespace for the constants. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter

Re: [Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

2010-03-08 Thread David Stanek
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Xavier Morel wrote: > On 8 Mar 2010, at 16:53 , David Stanek wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Steven Bethard >> wrote: >>> >>> In argparse, unlike optparse, actions are actually defined by objects >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL

2010-03-14 Thread David Beazley
I have been following this discussion about fixing the GIL and just wanted to make a few comments about it. To the doubters who don't think this is a real problem worth fixing, I must respectfully disagree. Multicore systems and parallel programming issues are not going away any time in the

Re: [Python-Dev] (no subject)

2010-03-15 Thread David Beazley
On Mon 15/03/10 4:34 AM , "Martin v. Löwis" mar...@v.loewis.de sent: > > So, just to be clear about the my bug report, it > is directly related> to the problem of overlapping I/O requests with > CPU-bound processing.> This kind of scenario comes up in the context of > many> applications--especia

Re: [Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL

2010-03-16 Thread David Beazley
d that is complex > business. > K > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames@python.org >> [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames@python.org] On Behalf >> Of David Beazley >> Sent: 15. mars 2010 03:07 >>

Re: [Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL

2010-03-17 Thread David Beazley
gt; Robert Hancock > Sent: 16. mars 2010 20:10 > To: Peter Portante > Cc: David Beazley; python-dev@python.org > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] "Fixing" the new GIL > > The Linux kernel scheduler deals with two types of ratings and has a > heuristic algorithm that rewards

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-25 Thread David Cournapeau
are about the only operations where you can have NaN as operands without risking raising an exception, and support for creating and detecting NaN in languages have been coming only quite lately (e.g. C99). Concerning the lack of rationale: a relatively short reference concerned about FPU

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-26 Thread David Cournapeau
hich may not really apply to python. Generally, you want to detect errors/exceptional situations as early as possible, and if you use python, you don't care about potential slowdown caused by those checks. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-26 Thread David Cournapeau
can control whether invalid operations raises an exception or not, we had isnan/isfinite for a long time, and the fact that nan != nan has never been a real problem AFAIK. David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/

Re: [Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

2010-03-28 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-27 00:32 , David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Xavier Morel wrote: >>> >>> How a

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] Bootstrap script for package management tool in Python 2.7 (Was: Re: At least one package management tool for 2.7)

2010-03-29 Thread David Cournapeau
d Python and need a quick way to install my packages on top of it." python setup.py install works well, and has for almost a decade. If you need setuptools, you can include ez_setup.py, which does exactly what you want, without adding a hugely controversial feature to python proper. You do something like: try: import setuptools except ImportError: print "Run ez_setup.py first" And you're done, cheers, David ___ 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] python compiler

2010-04-06 Thread David Cournapeau
implementation on a similar idea (but for jython), cheers, David ___ 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] regrtest oddify

2010-04-08 Thread David Malcolm
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 18:20 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2010/4/7 "Martin v. Löwis" : > > I have commented out all tests in test_gdb, yet > > > > http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/sparc%20Ubuntu%20trunk/builds/47/steps/test/logs/stdio > > > > still shows them being run. Can anybo

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

2010-04-13 Thread David Bolen
place currently replicating the problem, am working with Brian for whatever access or resources might be helpful. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pytho

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

2010-04-15 Thread David Bolen
ng the script. The new build slave can also be made available for RMs (or whomever) to generate the DMG when needed if that might be helpful. Though there should probably be some basic installation test on other systems prior to publishing any such generated files. -- David ___

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

2010-04-15 Thread David Cournapeau
at it reduces the size of the potential binary installer build > machines. Actually, you can just use a chroot "jail" to build the binary - I use this process to build the official numpy/scipy binaries, it works very well whatever crap there is on my laptop otherwise. cheers, David __

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

2010-04-15 Thread David Bolen
chine going away any time soon. Of course, this is just the DMG construction. Not sure what amount of "test the installer" testing should be required prior to publication. -- David ___ 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] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-17 Thread David Bolen
y controlled from the master side, and then uploading the resulting dmg file. I'd be happy to help coordinate any experiments offline if you're interested. I do currently have a DMG built for 2.7 Beta 1, if it would be useful. -- David ___ Python

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

2010-04-18 Thread David Bolen
n willing to assist in any changes to better match the buildbot builds to the final distribution process for more aligned testing. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

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

2010-04-18 Thread David Bolen
third-party sources already downloaded. More or less evenly split among third-party packages, the interpreter itself, and then docs/framework/disk image creation. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailm

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

2010-04-19 Thread David Bolen
Antoine Pitrou writes: > Does it include a license for Windows itself? > Does it allow me to install and run it in a VM? > If so, I'm interested. Yes, in fact, it's due to the availability of this license that I was able to set up the Win7

Re: [Python-Dev] Binary Compatibility Issue with Python v2.6.5 and v3.1.2

2010-04-20 Thread David Cournapeau
is ? The usual practice is to build against the *oldest* compatible version you can, so that it remains compatible with everything afterwards, cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

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

2010-04-24 Thread David Bolen
may also require the X11 headers (you'd have to have installed X11 separately) - do you have output in your log from what exactly is failing when that module attempts to build? -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.p

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

2010-04-24 Thread David Bolen
framework builds support 64-bit. So I suppose you'd have to build 32-bit if you wanted a working _tkinter. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

2010-04-26 Thread David Malcolm
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 21:19 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > Hi, > > Many Python module developers do not want their work to be distributed > by Debian (and probably by other Linux distributions), here's a list of Thanks! Not just Debian: I can confirm, from bitter experience, that your list is a

Re: [Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

2010-04-26 Thread David Cournapeau
le: it is not mandatory, it does not make life more complicated for python developers who don't care about platform X. FWIW, that's the scheme I intend to support in my own packaging solution, cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] please take a look at buildbot result

2010-04-29 Thread David Bolen
lso fairly sure that I'm finding stranded python test processes (not too dissimilar as on the Windows buildbots) that are bogging down the buildbot and thus more detrimental to ongoing buildbot operation than the lack of framework builds, so there may be other unknown issues more valuable t

[Python-Dev] urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about +

2010-05-07 Thread David Abrahams
This is a bug report. bugs.python.org seems to be down. >>> from urlparse import * >>> urlunsplit(urlsplit('git+file:///foo/bar/baz')) git+file:/foo/bar/baz Note the dropped slashes after the colon. -- Dave Abrahams Meet me at BoostCon: http://www.boostcon.com BoostPro Computi

Re: [Python-Dev] urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about +

2010-05-07 Thread David Borowitz
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:04, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, David Abrahams wrote: > > > > This is a bug report. bugs.python.org seems to be down. > > Tracked here: http://bugs.python.org/issue8656 > > > >>> urlunsplit(urlsplit(

Re: [Python-Dev] urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about +

2010-05-09 Thread David Abrahams
At Sat, 08 May 2010 11:04:47 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > David Abrahams writes: > > > > > > This is a bug report. bugs.python.org seems to be down. > > > > > > >>> from urlparse import *

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 7 updated

2010-05-10 Thread David Borowitz
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:09, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 9 May, 2010, at 20:33, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > The untabification of C files didn't produce any noticeable problem on > > the buildbots. I've updated PEP 7 with the mention that all C files > > should be 4-space i

Re: [Python-Dev] Summing up

2010-05-18 Thread David Beazley
Antoine, This is a pretty good summary that mirrors my thoughts on the GIL matter as well. In the big picture, I do think it's desirable for Python to address the multicore performance issue--namely to not have the performance needlessly thrashed in that environment. The original new GIL ad

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler)

2010-05-19 Thread David Beazley
> From: "Martin v. L?wis" > To: Dj Gilcrease > Cc: python-dev@python.org > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler) > Message-ID: <4bf385e3.9030...@v.loewis.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> I think the new GIL should be given a year or so in the wild

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler)

2010-05-19 Thread David Beazley
Yes, but the million dollar question is whether or not it really is superior with the I/O convoying problem in the current implementation (an effect that is substantially worse with the new GIL than with the old one by the way). Personally, I think the convoying issue is something that will hav

Re: [Python-Dev] red buildbots on 2.7

2010-06-21 Thread David Bolen
hat out manually as well. -- David ___ 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] How are the bdist_wininst binaries built ?

2010-06-30 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi, I would like to modify the code of the bdist installers, but I don't see any VS project for VS 9.0. How are the wininst-9.0*exe built ? thanks, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: [Python-Dev] How are the bdist_wininst binaries built ?

2010-06-30 Thread David Cournapeau
r: *how* is the wininst-9.0 built from the bdist_wininst sources ? I see 6, 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0 versions of the visual studio build scripts, but nothing for VS 9.0. cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] How are the bdist_wininst binaries built ?

2010-07-01 Thread David Cournapeau
tudio build scripts, but nothing for VS 9.0. > > Ah. See PCbuild/bdist_wininst.vcproj. I thought I checked there, but I obviously missed it. thanks, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread David Stanek
rsion. It just gets complicated if you plan on committing to both Subversion and Mercurial. Does having many little repos add more value than the pain it creates? -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek ___

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread David Cournapeau
roper > patches. I cannot comment on the original proposal, but this issue has known solutions in git, in the form of submodules. I believe hg has something similar with the forest extension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ForestExtension David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] SVN <-> HG workflow to split Python Library by Module

2010-07-02 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 17:17, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:25, anatoly techtonik wrote: >>>> I planned to publish this proposa

Re: [Python-Dev] More detailed build instructions for Windows

2010-07-02 Thread David Cournapeau
ed Visual > C++ 2010 Express, and it needs to convert the .vcproj files into > .vcxproj files, but it fails. > > I can't figure out where to get VC 9, all I see is 2008 and 2010. VS 2008 == VC 9 == MSVC 15 David ___ Python-Dev ma

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

2010-07-11 Thread David Beazley
> I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. > -1000. From the Python training department, I would like to say that this would be a horrible idea. Having taught numerous on-site training courses for Python, the one thing that I've learned is that you never know what y

[Python-Dev] MSDN subscription extensions?

2010-07-20 Thread David Bolen
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 will be able to be renewed this year? -- David

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3 optimizations...

2010-07-22 Thread David Cournapeau
r PhD program, you may be more restricted than you think. You may want to check with your adviser first, cheers, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest)

2010-07-30 Thread David Cournapeau
s category, even though I stopped using bzr for quite some time. The registration was incredibly robust and easy to use from a user and developer POV, David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest)

2010-08-02 Thread David Bolen
tools. Of course, even with /Applications, non-native GUI apps are more of a mixed bag. For example, the X versions of Gimp and Inkscape - Gimp properly uses "~/Library/Application Support" while Inkscape still uses ~/.inkscape. Of course, as X a

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker status

2010-08-02 Thread David Stanek
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Are the bug tracker and meta-tracker down for anyone else, or is it just me? > It is down for me as well. It appears to be accepting the connection and then just doesn't return any content. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376 proposed changes for basic plugins support

2010-08-03 Thread David Cournapeau
th explicit registration and only the registered plugins would be visible to the system. System-wise, I much prefer the later, and auto-discovery should be left at the application discretion IMO. A library to deal with this at the *app* level may be fine. But the current system of l

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376 proposed changes for basic plugins support

2010-08-03 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Michael Foord wrote: > On 03/08/2010 15:19, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Antoine Pitrou >>  wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:28:07 +0200 >>> "M.-A. Lemburg"

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking after the buildbots (in general)

2010-08-04 Thread David Stanek
ail the committer when their change broke the build. I realize that if you break 25 slaves it would not be pleasant to receive 25 emails, but I've had worse things happen. Or buildbot slaves can report failures to a mailing list or IRC chat. -- David blog: http://www

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-10 Thread David Cournapeau
nd giving that link ;-) > > Yes, that was a great link, thanks. It works fine for me. > > The reason I was bringing up this topic again was that I think the gnu > autotools have been made for exactly this purpose, to port software to > different platforms, Autotool

Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-12 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > > "David Cournapeau": >> Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big >> hindrance on windows platform in general, > > That is why mingw has MSYS. I know of MSYS, but it is

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files

2010-08-12 Thread David Cournapeau
out this issue: most of the slowdown came from unneeded stat (and symlink translations). cheers, David ___ 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] Possible bug in randint when importing pylab?

2010-08-19 Thread David Cournapeau
on. > Your question should be directed to the comp.lang.python newsgroup, or > the python-list mailing list. actually, the numpy and/or matplotlib ML would be even better in that case :) David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-08-29 Thread David Cournapeau
d I would think that windows is the platform where PEP 384 would be the most useful - at least it would for numpy/scipy, where those runtimes issues have bitten us several times (and are painful to debug, especially when you don't know windows so well). cheers, David _

[Python-Dev] Windows buildbots MSVC RTL popups

2010-08-30 Thread David Bolen
wn on an autoit script to try to automatically acknowledge these dialogs so hopefully the affected test runs will just fail rather than timing out and blocking later runs. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-08-30 Thread David Cournapeau
ing C runtimes is still going to come with the caveat of > potential locale related glitches. As far as IO is concerned, FILE* is just a special case of a more generic issue, though, so maybe this could be a bit reworded. For example, file descriptor cannot be shared between runtimes eit

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal counter to debug leaking file descriptors

2010-08-31 Thread David Malcolm
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:40 +, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 05:22 pm, gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > > > >On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >>On Linux you can look somewhere in /proc, but I don't know that it > >>would help you find where a file was opened. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts

2010-09-05 Thread David Cournapeau
le accustomed with packaging on debian-like systems, but not so much for others. Maybe the PEP would benefit from a stronger example (for example how is a simple package with a C extension actually installed on the system), but OTOH, this keeps changing between debian/ubuntu versions, so a complete e

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-07 Thread David Cournapeau
issue is actually quite easy to reproduce. > I don't remember this being a real practical issue, at least > not for different versions of the MS CRTs. I would turn the question around: what are the cases where you manage to mix CRT and not getting any issues ? This

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> I would turn the question around: what are the cases where you manage >> to mix CRT and not getting any issues ? This has never worked in my >> own experience in

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

2010-09-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> In other words, the problem mainly arises when you need to integrate >> libraries which you can not recompile with the compiler used by >> python, because t

Re: [Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread David Cournapeau
That's the time it will take for all packages to support distutils2 ? cheers, David ___ 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] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI

2010-09-18 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >  On 18/09/2010 11:48, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Michael Foord >>  wrote: >>> >>>  On 18/09/2010 11:03, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>>> >&

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Builder: x86 Windows7 3.x OpenSSL compile error

2010-09-20 Thread David Bolen
(2.09.02) and restarted the most recent build and it's gotten past the OpenSSL stage, so it looks like 2.06 may be the specific bad version. I guess I just happened to construct this builder in the relative small interval when 2.06 was current. Thanks again for figuring this out. -- David

Re: [Python-Dev] Builder: x86 Windows7 3.x OpenSSL compile error

2010-09-20 Thread David Bolen
gt; import os [50683 refs] >>> os.path.exists('d:\\cygwin\\home\\db3l\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows7\\build\\lib\\test\\keycert.pem') True [50689 refs] >>> os.path.exists(b'd:\\cygwin\\home\\db3l\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows7\\buil d\\lib\\test\\keycert.pem') False

Re: [Python-Dev] Python wiki

2010-09-25 Thread David Stanek
t; contributors immediately providing instruments to work with Python > wiki. So if smb. need Jython wiki - it should be moved to > wiki.jython.org > That's funny, I've never seen that page before. Does it get linked to from somewhere? -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org t

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement needed in issue9675

2010-09-28 Thread David Malcolm
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 04:44 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://bugs.python.org/issue9675 > > Long history sort: Python 2.7 backported Capsule support and > (incorrectly, in my opinion) marked CObject as deprecated. > > All C modules in the stdlib

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement needed in issue9675

2010-09-28 Thread David Malcolm
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:18 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 04:44 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: [snip] > > Long history and links to previous pronouncements in > > http://bugs.python.org/issue9675 Re-reading my post, I realize that my wording was really unclear; sorr

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable build slaves authority

2010-10-13 Thread David Bolen
regular problem of stranded python_d processes in the background (something shared with my OSX tiger slave, but there I can run a script to detect processes owned by init and kill them). So periodic manual checks/cleanup is still definitely needed. -- David _

Re: [Python-Dev] [patch] fpconst for python3

2010-10-20 Thread David Malcolm
(my apologies, if necessary, for top-posting) FWIW Neal asked about this on Fedora's development mailing list as well: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-October/144535.html If I'm reading: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fpconst/ correctly, that project hasn't had an upstream upda

Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-29 Thread David Malcolm
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 09:11 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:55:55 -0400 > Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > > > Let's say that 20% of the code on PyPI is just junk; > > it's unfair to expect 100% of all code ever to get ported. But, > still: > > with this back-of-the-envelope esti

Re: [Python-Dev] Regular scheduled releases

2010-10-30 Thread David Bolen
lp of Martin and Ronald. But without actual use of the result, it's hard to think it was worth it. I'm pretty sure my default reaction to a break-down in the current OSX build process at this point would be to first suggest disabling it unless there were real users. -- David ___

Re: [Python-Dev] "Too many open files" errors on "x86 FreeBSD 7.2 3.x" buildbot

2010-11-06 Thread David Bolen
e maximum descriptors as shown by limit. In regards to R. David Murray's response, the buildbots are VMs with limited memory, so the dynamic calculation he references for descriptors is much lower than his system. Looks like the reason FreeBSD is ok, and FreeBSD7 is because the relevant tests

Re: [Python-Dev] SSH access against buildbot boxes

2010-11-06 Thread David Bolen
X Tiger buildbot may be a little less interesting than the other OSX boxes, the offer remains open for any of my buildbots. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] "Too many open files" errors on "x86 FreeBSD 7.2 3.x" buildbot

2010-11-07 Thread David Bolen
osed to make the POSIX limits adjustable didn't make the 8.1 cut (current release), though might make it in the next 8.x release. -- David ___ 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] "Too many open files" errors on "x86 FreeBSD 7.2 3.x" buildbot

2010-11-08 Thread David Bolen
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: > -On [20101108 00:36], David Bolen (db3l@gmail.com) wrote: >>Well, I think the SYSV semaphores are either less limited or at least >>more adjustable. They've certainly been around longer in FreeBSD. >>The POSIX semaphore

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable buildbots

2010-11-13 Thread David Bolen
, so I'm going to try to pull together a monitor script this weekend to start killing them off automatically. Should at least get rid of some of the low hanging fruit that interferes with subsequent builds. -- David ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Stable buildbots

2010-11-14 Thread David Bolen
cript on OSX to kill them off, but that was quick to whip up since in those cases the stranded processes all end up getting owned by init so it's a simple ps grep and kill. In the Windows case I'll probably just set a time limit so if the processes have been around more than a few hours I

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