Re: [Python-Dev] hg pull failed

2011-03-06 Thread skip
for those not familiar with my past experiences with Mercurial, I gave up on it once before (pylockfile) because I got things so totally f**ked up. I went back to Subversion on Google Code and have been happy ever since. I approach this new way of managing Python development with a gr

Re: [Python-Dev] hg pull failed

2011-03-06 Thread skip
l. Georg> You can still exchange commits with the other local clones by Georg> using, for example, "hg push ../3.2". (You can also add another Georg> entry in the .hgrc's [paths] section if you want to give Georg> nicknames to these path names). That seems

Re: [Python-Dev] hg pull failed

2011-03-06 Thread skip
tead of cloning everything from cpython, right? Skip ___ 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] CPython hg transition complete

2011-03-06 Thread skip
You already pushed from 3.1 to ../3.2 then updated in 3.2. Didn't that make the changes available? Skip ___ 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] CPython hg transition complete

2011-03-06 Thread skip
tin> them. Martin> So after "hg push", the change is on the "3.1 branch" of the Martin> "3.2 clone". The "merge 3.1" tries to merge all changes on the Martin> 3.1 branch that are not already on the 3.2 branch to the 3.2 Martin&g

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

2011-03-07 Thread skip
st is synchronized with the rietveld Martin> issue's cc list, so comments get mailed to the nosy list. What should I be looking for? For example, this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue11205 contains a patch but I don't see anything which l

Re: [Python-Dev] Unable to build old version from hg.python.org

2011-03-07 Thread skip
atal Python error: subversion Vinay> keywords missing". I encountered the same problem. My "solution" was to manually expand the $HeadURL$ string at the top of posixmodule.c as it would have been expanded by Subversion. I then committed that locally. Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Unable to build old version from hg.python.org

2011-03-07 Thread skip
n't see any great harm in expanding that string and checking it in, simply to avoid this problem in the future. I'm sure there are plenty of developers maintaining external code which is still supposed to be 2.5-compatible. Skip ___ Python-De

[Python-Dev] PyCon blogging?

2011-03-07 Thread skip
Anybody here (or elsewhere) with plans to blog at PyCon for those of us not going? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Failed issue tracker submission

2011-03-08 Thread skip
>> You are not a registered user. >> Unknown address: python-dev@python.org I should point out that I approved this message, mostly so whoever has thinks set up to send messages to the meta tracker as python-dev can fix the pr

Re: [Python-Dev] Failed issue tracker submission

2011-03-08 Thread skip
Antoine> Ouch. I fear this message may be repeated several times :/ Antoine> Sorry for the spam, if that happens... Do you want me to reject or discard future messages to python-dev from roundup-admin? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Suggest reverting today's checkin (recursive constant folding in the peephole optimizer)

2011-03-12 Thread skip
on on the change. If the peephole optimizer is largely Raymond's work, why should that be treated any differently? Is it just because it can't practically be distributed outside of Python proper the way ElementTree can? Skip ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Suggest reverting today's checkin (recursive constant folding in the peephole optimizer)

2011-03-12 Thread skip
Martin> I don't think any of the regular core committers got any such Martin> explicit veto powers on any code... "Veto powers" is your term, not mine. I suggested that Raymond's opinion should be accorded extra weight. This isn't

Re: [Python-Dev] Suggest reverting today's checkin (recursive constant folding in the peephole optimizer)

2011-03-12 Thread skip
out that the case at Martin> hand is different. I didn't know that, nor did I infer that Fredrik had veto power. I wrote: I think we would give reasonably large weight to Fredrik Lundh's opinion on the change. Skip ___

[Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-19 Thread skip
: changeset: 68585:c63d7374b89a user:Skip Montanaro date:Sat Mar 19 09:09:30 2011 -0500 summary: Mention RFC 4180. Based on input by Tony Wallace in issue 11456. I committed. Now: changeset: 68680:64eeb4cd4b56 tag: tip parent: 6858

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-19 Thread skip
RDM> merge it into default, and also patch 2.7, just like any other RDM> bug-fix commit. Sorry, I found updating cpython hard enough. I almost gave up on just that one simple change. Anyway, I thought I was supposed to pull from head to 3.2 and 2.

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-19 Thread skip
to learn how to do something I was doing in CVS and Subversion with no trouble, I would have done so by now. I want to understand how to use the workflow set up for this project. If you aren't willing to help me get past my initial difficulties, please don't bother responding. -- Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding whitespace conflicts (was: I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?)

2011-03-20 Thread skip
ns on the whitespace in .rst files. Now that I know, it's not difficult to avoid. Skip ___ 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] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-20 Thread skip
ot run). The workflow of the version control system isn't going to magically expose semantic interactions across modules. It seems to me that at best the new workflow means there is a better chance of catching textual conflicts before checkin than before. Skip _

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-20 Thread skip
Terry> What you felt like doing after doing the rest;-? I still f*cked everything up. R. David Murray came to my rescue. Even he muffed it and had to backtrack I think, at least based on one of the comments I saw on one of the involved tracker issues. S

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-21 Thread skip
essed intention of the switch away from a centralized version control system, to make it easier for more people to contribute to Python. It certainly seems harder for this old dog. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-21 Thread skip
n's terminology) would happen with Subversion. Skip ___ 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] GSoC: speed.python.org

2011-03-21 Thread skip
ntimes)? If so, I think there is value it having both 2.x and 3.x versions, even if the 3.x stuff won't be useful for speed comparisons. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubsc

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

2011-03-21 Thread skip
ed with my trivial doc patch last week. I was quite surprised to see all my local checkins turn up on the python-checkins mailing list. Is there not some way to automatically collapse a series of local commits into one large commit when you do the push? Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC: speed.python.org

2011-03-21 Thread skip
y expose problems, just as we do today for unit tests. Skip ___ 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] crosses branches?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
I came across a new message I neither understood before or after searching for it on Google (and thus the documentation): % hg pull -u pulling from /Users/skip/src/hgpython/2.6 searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 242

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
t's one reason why the Stephen> Linux kernel uses Linus and lieutenants as a serialization Stephen> mechanism). So DVCS scales up to a point, then it breaks and you need to revert to some sort of serialization scheme? Skip ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-22 Thread skip
uot; button, it created a patch Senthil> and then attached to the issue tracker. You can click on the Senthil> review button to post that patch to reitveld and do the Senthil> review,. Sorry, I don't see a "Create Patch"

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
Hrvoje> If you are not familiar with other DVCS workflows, take a look Hrvoje> at, for example, chapter 5 of the "Pro Git" book, which Hrvoje> describes the alternatives such as integrator-manager and Hrvoje> dictator-lieutenant workflows: http://progit.org/book/ch5-1.html Thanks.

Re: [Python-Dev] crosses branches?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
1:6b2edc385ffe parent: 68803:b99c94261225 user:Martin v. L?wis date:Mon Mar 21 10:32:02 2011 +0100 summary: null merge changeset: 68309:c3caaf979b9e branch: 2.5 parent: 68263:7790ad8332ba user:Skip Montanaro date:

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-22 Thread skip
of which support Senthil> creating mercurial repositories. Or it could be a repository at Senthil> hg.python.org and with a url like hg.python.org/sandbox/skip or Senthil> hg.python.org/skip Senthil> You will have to 'push' your changes to those so that they

Re: [Python-Dev] crosses branches?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
Sjoerd> Are you sure the hg pull part worked? Pretty sure: 2.7% hg pull Enter passphrase for key '/Users/skip/.ssh/id_rsa': pulling from ssh://h...@hg.python.org/cpython searching for changes no changes found 2.7% cd ../2.6 2.6% hg pull pullin

Re: [Python-Dev] crosses branches?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
3:7790ad8332ba | | | | | |user:Skip Montanaro | | | | | |date:Sun Mar 06 21:31:25 2011 -0600 | | | | | |summary: manually expand the defunct HeadURL subversion keyword ... I see no other "parent"s. I have to admit I don't know how to rea

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

2011-03-22 Thread skip
y and Daniel> often). It's saved my butt more than once Interesting concept. So, I take it your commit messages are generally empty? Care to share the hook function? (I trust it understands when you save files not under version control.) Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-22 Thread skip
27;t know if it's possible to do easily, but when uploading a new version of a patch the user could be prompted to select other patches (or maybe they could be selected based on having the same name?) which the new patch makes obsolete so they can be elided from the

Re: [Python-Dev] I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
web. There is no editorial review of their quality other than Google page rank. Is there a prioritized list of stuff one should read? Again, I reveal my ignorance with stunning alacrity. My apologies to the experts. >From Joel Spolsky:

Re: [Python-Dev] Workflow proposal

2011-03-22 Thread skip
e recent checkins) or revision-wise (rev 68001 is newer than 68000)? If I had more time I'm sure I could ask more questions. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsub

Re: [Python-Dev] crosses branches?

2011-03-22 Thread skip
>> hg revert -r 68263 Python/sysmodule.c >> >> Was that the right thing to do? merwok> Use hg backout, not revert. They differ, how? S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-de

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-23 Thread skip
se to me because I guess I don't know what you mean by "main". What is/are the "main repos"? hg.python.org/sandbox/ncoghlan? hg.python.org/cpython? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

2011-03-23 Thread skip
Martin> Yes, it will turn into a giant bowl of spaghetti - that's the Martin> whole point of "Distributed" version control systems. skip> No, you don't understand. Just the repositories I will have to skip> deal with will turn into a big bowl of s

Re: [Python-Dev] Trimming the fat from "make quicktest" (was Re: I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?)

2011-03-23 Thread skip
tedly running those tests simply because they run fast gives a false sense of security. Skip ___ 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 -m test -jN

2011-03-23 Thread skip
TOH, when I run a simple "make test" only distutils fails. This is on my Macbook Pro running Leopard. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Trimming the fat from "make quicktest" (was Re: I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?)

2011-03-23 Thread skip
e code which is currently the most flaky.) Barry> Any objections to adding those slowest 5 tests to the blacklist, Barry> and -j5 to quicktest for Python 3.3? Convince me that you haven't so horribly skewed the coverage that the result is no longer meaningful. Skip _

Re: [Python-Dev] Trimming the fat from "make quicktest" (was Re: I am now lost - committed, pulled, merged, what is "collapse"?)

2011-03-23 Thread skip
status * Grab a cup of coffee * Read python-dev * Try out a few new bass lines you heard on Pinetop Perkins' last album (may he RIP). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Python-Dev] Trimming "make quicktest"

2011-03-23 Thread skip
ious things, but on this I am definitely in agreement with him. Skip ___ 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] sprints and pushes

2011-03-23 Thread skip
e coordinated manually. Say, everybody breaks for {morning snack, lunch, dinner}. When they return from the break if the local buildbots are green you push out to cpython, then everyone starts banging on their keyboards again. Skip ___ Python-Dev

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

2011-03-24 Thread skip
ML-RPC I suspect your best fallback is a dictionary. Skip ___ 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 Core Mentorship program

2011-03-25 Thread skip
>> Boggle. Jesse> I assume that means your in, or you hate that idea? Or that he just really likes to play Boggle. :-) S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Decisions about workflow

2011-03-26 Thread skip
Antoine> Take a look at: Antoine> http://docs.python.org/devguide/committing.html What form should directed graphs be in for inclusion? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

2011-03-27 Thread skip
can't be encoded in ASCII unless a non-ASCII message body is detected? Skip ___ 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/arch

Re: [Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

2011-03-27 Thread skip
asking if it would be possible (read: fairly easy) to only generate utf-8 when it was necessary. For the time being I'm using a procmail hack to blindly rewrite utf-8 to us-ascii in the checking messages. I'll see how that works before doing something more elaborate like switch

Re: [Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

2011-03-27 Thread skip
where no non-ascii symbols are Eugene> used? Sure, but the mime header tells VM that the body of the part is utf-8 encoded, and it's base64-encoded. If it wasn't base64-encoded I could simply hit D in my mail reader to expand the part. Skip __

Re: [Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

2011-03-27 Thread skip
that. That's fine. I was just asking. I guess I have my work cut out for me. It appears my preferred mail reader, VM, is not supported out-of-the-box by GNU Emacs (they still use Rmail and Babyl for some reason), and I'm not sure the investment trying to get XEmacs built with MULE i

Re: [Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

2011-03-29 Thread skip
the ediff and vc packages recognize version-controlled files (It seems they do, but I haven't put them through their paces) * replace the GNU python.el with python-mode.el from the python-mode project (formerly distributed with Python, but no

Re: [Python-Dev] Documenting the buildbots

2011-03-30 Thread skip
>> For the record, I added a page documenting our continuous integration >> setup at: http://docs.python.org/devguide/buildbots.html Jesse> that's awesome. should we document how to donate/add a buildbot Jesse> somewhere in the same section (or alongside)? I must admit, it wasn't

Re: [Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
Please see this thread in the tracker-discuss list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tracker-discuss/2011-March/thread.html Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
skip> Please see this thread in the tracker-discuss list: skip> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tracker-discuss/2011-March/thread.html That didn't read right. I meant see that thread to see other discussion about the folding topic, not that it would necessary convince

Re: [Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
tached. (Apologies for the image size. Who would have thought such a modest image would be so hard to compress?) Skip <>___ 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] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
ges rapidly become less important as they age. Think following the Japanese earthquake/tsunami aftermath. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
re accuracy than the language conversion)? :-) Skip ___ 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] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-03-31 Thread skip
comment box when Ethan> one runs out of previous comments to read. Again, drawing on the forum model, the new message box is always at the bottom (of each page) in my experience. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Decisions about workflow

2011-04-02 Thread skip
e tools in pure Python. anatoly> http://code.google.com/p/rainforce/issues/detail?id=4 Yeah, I sort of figured that. :-) I meant JPEG? PNG? ASCII art? Some sort of graph notation (like Graphviz)? MoinMoin .draw notation? Does ReST support an

Re: [Python-Dev] Decisions about workflow

2011-04-02 Thread skip
Laura> Sphinx lets you embed graphviz. Laura> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ext/graphviz.html?highlight=image Cool, thanks. I'm going to try to reproduce Nick's setup as he described it. That would certainly be a whole lot easy for me to understand, hopefully for other

Re: [Python-Dev] Decisions about workflow

2011-04-02 Thread skip
Skip> I'm going to try to reproduce Nick's setup as he described it. Skip> That would certainly be a whole lot easy for me to understand, Skip> hopefully for others as well. Laura> *DEFINITELY* for me too! Nick> I'll reproduce it in dodgy ASCI

Re: [Python-Dev] Please revert autofolding of tracker edit form

2011-04-03 Thread skip
vawda, 2011-03-20 19:15 ... bz2-doc.diff > nvawda, 2011-04-02 18:14 Skip ___ 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 399: Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibiilty Requirements

2011-04-06 Thread skip
at circumstances might the 100% rule be relaxed? Skip ___ 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] Post from Mark Summerfield

2011-04-18 Thread skip
Mark Summerfield responded to Martin's python-announce post. Rather than approving it I rejected it and forwarded it here. (I suppose I could have forwarded it directly to Martin, but that would have required that I recall or look up his email address...)

Re: [Python-Dev] the role of assert in the standard library ?

2011-04-28 Thread skip
Barry> I would agree. Use asserts for "this can't possibly happen Barry> " conditions. Without looking, I suspect that's probably what the author thought he was doing. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Borrowed and Stolen References in API

2011-05-05 Thread skip
rom the code and maintain it manually, it's going to get out-of-date. Skip ___ 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] Linus on garbage collection

2011-05-06 Thread skip
ted system you won't even consider cycles for reclmation, would both RC and GC have to punt because they can't tell which object's destructor to call first? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Linus on garbage collection

2011-05-06 Thread skip
Michael> "Therefore we decided to break such a cycle at an arbitrary Michael> place, which doesn't sound too insane." I trust "arbitrary" != "random"? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] Don't set local variable in a list comprehension or generator

2011-05-19 Thread skip
less legitimately encounter it if the generator expression originally contained a condition which got removed. Skip ___ 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] Help requested for Python ISO Standard

2011-06-06 Thread skip
ior. I am also searching for a list of deprecated kevin> features. One place to search: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/crashers/ -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.6 buildouts to the set API

2007-05-20 Thread skip
that's an improvement. Maybe it's just me, but given two sets I frequently want to operate on s1-s2, s2-s1 and s1&s2 in different ways. I wouldn't find a disjoint operation all that useful. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-D

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-05-20 Thread skip
does the "E" in R. E. Olds stand for?), not general (what star shines during the day? what day preceeds Monday?) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-20 Thread skip
thing else I think you need to keep math in mind whether it's used in the core documentation or not. Skip ___ 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] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread skip
made. I'm being vague here on purpose because I'm unfamiliar with the available tools. The one thing I do know is that LaTeX provides that today and by removing it from the toolchain you have removed a significant piece of functionality. Skip __

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread skip
but where will they get them if they are no longer part of Python? Skip ___ 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] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread skip
presents the most frequently requested pages in a section at the top of the page. I can make the script available if anyone wants it (it uses Myghty - Mason in Python.) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-21 Thread skip
it to any other format. It's about as readable as LaTeX source. Skip ___ 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] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread skip
more familiar to people interested in math display than anything else. Skip ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread skip
;"Distutils setup parameters.""" * ran "python setup.py install" That's probably more than necessary, but with the math subdir I can easily move the whole thing to a new snapshot and the setup.py change lets me install them transparently. Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread skip
use for lack of contributions. True whiners will just come up with new ones (e.g., "the documentation isn't available in Sanskrit yet" or "the dog ate my changes before I could type them into the computer"). ;-) Skip ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread skip
hem into the computer"). ;-) Steve> But doesn't *everyone* now know that documentation contributions Steve> don't have to be marked up? It's certainly been said Steve> enough. Sure, but that doesn't stop the true whiners. ;-) Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-23 Thread skip
be difficult to read unless pumped through lynx -dump or something similar. Skip ___ 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] What's going on with the check-in emails?

2007-06-27 Thread skip
n in checkin emails recently. I forwarded your note to the python.org mailman/postfix gurus. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] csv changed from python 2.4 to 2.5

2007-06-27 Thread skip
copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import csv >>> d = csv.get_dialect("excel") >>> d <_csv.Dialect object at 0x137fac0> Please submit a bug report on SourceForge. Thx, Skip __

Re: [Python-Dev] Decoding libpython frame information on the stack

2007-06-28 Thread skip
e lines. These look a little funky when debugging from a terminal window. Skip ___ 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] Should r53624 be applied to release branches?

2007-07-10 Thread skip
ave to patch Aaron> subprocess.py ourselves. In theory, I'm in favor of backporting, but how far back do you need/want to apply it? There will clearly be more 2.5 releases. I don't think any more 2.4 releases are planned. Skip ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers at Google (was Re: Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file)

2007-07-12 Thread skip
Neal> We need to hear more from people outside of Google to ensure we Neal> are doing the best possible job. It would also be great to have Neal> more active committers that don't work at Google. Are you worried that Google might get hit by

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a -z interpreter flag to execute a zip file

2007-07-12 Thread skip
rd of that restriction being relaxed. Skip ___ 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] Subversion branch merging

2007-07-13 Thread skip
Barry> diffs are so 20th century. :) How do you compare two versions of something without some sort of diff? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Python-Dev] Subversion branch merging

2007-07-13 Thread skip
Barry> Silly me, the trunk is already available: Barry> https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/python/trunk Bazaar keeps this in sync with svn.python.org? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Python-Dev] Three-char file extensions

2007-07-15 Thread skip
Window-centric so they've pretty much been off my radar screen. Skip ___ 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] Two spaces or one?

2007-07-24 Thread skip
space (for example, G. D. Montanaro) following a period is considered a non-breakable space. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] Two spaces or one?

2007-07-26 Thread skip
gramming for 30 years. I started with IBM punch cards, so I might be a bit biased. Skip ___ 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] Bus error in transformer.py

2007-07-28 Thread skip
Paul> And I feel that It's bug in python, or python port, because I'm Paul> getting Bus error on some stage when I'm tracing execution and Paul> trying to backtrace. Have you run it under control of a C-level debugger (gdb, dbx, etc) to see where the

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Universal newlines support in Python 3.0

2007-08-13 Thread skip
Paul> ... that files can have *either* bare \n, *or* the combination Paul> \r\n, to delimit lines. As someone else pointed out, \r needs to be supported as well. Many Mac applications (Excel comes to mind) still emit text files with \r as the line terminator.

[Python-Dev] Source file markers for Tru64?

2007-08-17 Thread skip
I'm working on removing Tru64 support from the Python 3 code base. There aren't that many markers which actually say "Tru64". I see __digitial__ and OSF/1 as well. What others are there? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

Re: [Python-Dev] Source file markers for Tru64?

2007-08-17 Thread skip
e that checks whether the processor is alpha Martin> might also be relevant - but that could also talk about other Martin> systems (Linux or VMS). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailm

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