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

2007-08-17 Thread skip
Guido> According to the wiki history, BeOS was added to the wiki page by Guido> Skip. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/Py3kDeprecated?action=info Guido> (rev 6) I didn't make it up. I'm pretty sure I saw it somewhere in either the wiki, the python-3000 mailing li

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

2007-08-17 Thread skip
know. PEP 3100: Remove support for old systems, including: BeOS, RISCOS, (SGI) Irix, Tru64 I'll hold off on doing anything more until I can update PEP 11. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

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

2007-08-17 Thread skip
(Maybe as a section of PEP 11?) 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] PEP 11 update - Call for port maintainers to step forward

2007-08-18 Thread skip
but know who is, please pass this note along to them. If I've missed any other platforms (I know I must have have missed something), let me know that as well. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ ___

[Python-Dev] Email addresses in PEPs?

2007-08-20 Thread skip
re to spammers. 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] AtheOS/Syllable

2007-08-22 Thread skip
anches in a semi-clean fashion. 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] new bug tracker broken?

2007-08-25 Thread skip
Neal> Note, I'm not sure if you have an account, you might need to Neal> register. But try your SF id first. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubsc

[Python-Dev] test_calendar broken on trunk

2007-08-28 Thread skip
: Fix title endtag in HTMLCalender.formatyearpage(). Fix documentation for HTMLCalender.formatyearpage() (there's no themonth parameter). This fixes issue1046. broke test_calendar. Details here: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/community/all/

Re: [Python-Dev] Triage of old tracker bugs: Any use?

2007-08-28 Thread skip
. If nothing else, you might add a comment asking the submitter if this is still a problem. If something's been there for nearly four years it's possible that it was solved in a later release or worked around by other means. Skip ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Order of operations (was: PEP 238 - The // operator should truncate instead of floor)

2007-08-29 Thread skip
tokens at the lexical analysis level. -3.41 is '-' followed by '3.41'. In C it's a single token resolved at compile time. In the not-too-distant past negative numeric constants were tried, but that caused some other grief. I can't remember what. Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Product function patch [issue 1093]

2007-09-03 Thread skip
uently) to take the product of a series. sum() obviously takes care of the first use case. product() would take care of the second. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Uns

[Python-Dev] Errors in the csv module reader/writer methods - new w/ change to rst?

2007-09-05 Thread skip
ode265.html http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/node266.html I don't think they add anything useful to the documentation. Were they added just for the csv module (and possibly a few others) or was this a change to the entire libref documentation? That is, was this some sort of policy change? C

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEPs] Email addresses in PEPs?

2007-09-07 Thread skip
5% Trent> hex, 45% dec). Aren't most spammers' scrapers going to be intelligent enough by now (several years since they first arrived on the scene) to "see through" these sorts of common obfuscations? Skip ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-11 Thread skip
Justin> Caches seem like they definitely might be a problem. Would you Justin> mind expanding on this a little? What gets cached and why? I believe the integer free list falls into this category. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-12 Thread skip
Brett> We should probably document where all of these globals lists are Brett> instead of relying on looking for all file level static Brett> declarations or something. I smell a wiki page. Skip Brett> Or would there be benefit to moving things like this to t

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-12 Thread skip
ion. For uncommon ones this could use a lock until someone gets around to writing the necessary couple lines of assembler. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscri

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-13 Thread skip
ion becomes a bottleneck? 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] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-13 Thread skip
ls to the no-op Hrvoje> deallocator are unlikely. Maybe sys.maxint/2? You'd hate for the first incref to invoke the deallocator even if it was a no-op. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] IPv6 hostname resolution using socket.getaddrinfo()

2007-09-17 Thread skip
m in the right direction. 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 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread skip
t. At the very least, if something is going to be new in 2.6, keep that. Maybe also keep the 2.5 versionadded references. Older references can probably be deleted. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] New lines, carriage returns, and Windows

2007-09-26 Thread skip
clearly doesn't: >>> f = open("test.txt", "wt") >>> f.write("a\rb\rnc\n") 7 >>> f.close() >>> open("test.txt", "rb").read() b'a\rb\rnc\n' I'd be open to such a change. P

Re: [Python-Dev] New lines, carriage returns, and Windows

2007-09-30 Thread skip
Greg> Maybe there should be a universal newlines mode defined for output Greg> as well as input, which translates any of "\r", "\n" or "\r\n" Greg> into the platform line ending. Skip> I'd be open to such a change. Principle of le

Re: [Python-Dev] [python] Re: New lines, carriage returns, and Windows

2007-09-30 Thread skip
endings. The file is written out and now contains a Michael> mix of '\r\n' and '\r\r\n'. So you need a translation layer between the UI component and your code. Treat the component as a text file and perform the desired mapping. Yes? Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing hotshot profiler?

2007-10-05 Thread skip
Fred, Search the python-3000 archives for a subject started by Neal Norwitz in late August with a subject of "what to do with profilers in the stdlib". I was the one who suggested removing hotshot (Armin's cprofile covers basically the same

[Python-Dev] sched module - still useful?

2007-10-08 Thread skip
h you find yourself). The delayfunc is called and when it finishes, the action function is called. Thx, Skip ___ 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] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-15 Thread skip
Andrew> as python-jobs? How about just creating a page on the wiki and letting those people participate who are interested? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-10-22 Thread skip
emoved when any file descriptor for that file is closed by that process Flock(2) is recommended for applications that want to ensure the integrity of their locks when using library routines or wish to pass locks to their children. I guess the BSD folks were a bit upset when th

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-10-22 Thread skip
three significant Python tools/platforms and that all are different in some significant ways suggests that there is some both an underlying need for a file locking mechanism but with a lack of consensus about the best way to implement the mother-of-all-file-l

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-24 Thread skip
quite web-focused. For the open positions in our group I'd much rather see experience doing scientific or database programming with Python than web apps. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-10-26 Thread skip
shared resource like a database and not have to write and or many other test cases. 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] resurrected modindex

2007-10-26 Thread skip
The result is here: http://www.webfast.com/modindex/ I reset all the counters and seeded the cache with a few modules. Click around in the index a few times then reload the above page. You'll get the idea. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] resurrected modindex

2007-10-27 Thread skip
t paging down. I got tired of my modindex URL doing the work necessary to process the index (and thus being a little slower than just going straight to the index itself) but not seeing the proper anchors in the file which allowed it to insert the table and re

Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

2007-10-31 Thread skip
ng = property(get_encoding, set_encoding) ? Guido> I'd also like to change property so that the doc string defaults Guido> to the doc string of the getter. How about defaulting it to the first argument to property() which has a doc string? Skip _

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-11-01 Thread skip
n my website: http://www.webfast.com/~skip/python/ It took me a little longer to implement than I thought because I decided to implement an SQLite-based _FileLock subclass, mostly as a proof-of-concept. I'm still waiting for the name "lockfile" to free up in

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-11-03 Thread skip
skip> Okay, this is up on my website: skip> http://www.webfast.com/~skip/python/ And on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile/ Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-23 Thread skip
at patch. The checkins have been reverted. 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] .pyc location?

2007-11-23 Thread skip
Nick> As I recall, the PEP was withdrawn because Skip didn't have the Nick> time and/or level of interest needed to champion it any more, and Nick> nobody else was interested in taking on the task. Correct. I only implemented what I did because it seemed like an inter

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-24 Thread skip
Titus> Skip, this set_trace rewrite fixes the problem in both 25-maint and Titus> trunk: ... Thanks, Titus. Both the doctest and trace tests pass with your change. Checked back in. I didn't run the full test suite, as test_sqlite causes a bus error on my Mac which

[Python-Dev] Slow tests involving bsddb - timeout

2007-12-04 Thread skip
I noticed that test_anydbm and test_bsddb seemed to hang, so I -x'd them. Later on while test_whichdb was running and I was off doing something else (so didn't notice the delay), it eventually spewed this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/s

Re: [Python-Dev] Slow tests involving bsddb - timeout

2007-12-05 Thread skip
details. Thanks, that at least gives me some hope that I can try to narrow down the problem with a little binary searching. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http:/

Re: [Python-Dev] Slow tests involving bsddb - timeout

2007-12-08 Thread skip
Guido> I think I've seen this too when running the bsddb3 unittest. I Guido> think it's caused by a previous test ending badly and leaving Guido> junk behind that the test suite doesn't properly remove before Guido> starting. But I don't recall the

[Python-Dev] bsddb185 v1.0 for Python 2.6 and 3.0

2007-12-08 Thread skip
lable from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bsddb185 Cheers, -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

[Python-Dev] Missing _sqlite checkin on trunk?

2007-12-09 Thread skip
back from him. Is there some different method for getting sqlite changes into the trunk? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/op

Re: [Python-Dev] Return type of round, floor, and ceil in 2.6

2008-01-04 Thread skip
Guido> Looks like in Python 2.6, round(0.5) right now returns 0.0, Guido> whereas in 2.5, it returns 1.0. Guido> I think it should return 1.0, for best compatibility with Python Guido> 2.5. And for best compatibility with everything else! <

Re: [Python-Dev] Return type of round, floor, and ceil in 2.6

2008-01-04 Thread skip
we've chosen it for Python 3.0. But it should not bleed into Guido> Python 2.6. Thanks for the pointer. Given that it's been an ASTM standard since 1940 and apparently in fairly common use since the early 1900s, I wonder why it's not been more widely

Re: [Python-Dev] Repeatability of looping over dicts

2008-01-05 Thread skip
s restriction"? If the answer is, "not much", then I don't see why this is even an idle thought. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.or

[Python-Dev] Do we need both Trac and Roundup?

2008-01-06 Thread skip
, it seems to me that we must waste some precious resources (mostly people) maintaining two mostly disjoint trackers. There is also some functionality overlap, mostly in the documentation area. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Scan, Python upgraded to rung 2

2008-01-09 Thread skip
ge to get a 0.0 score? 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] Some tardy mailman checking

2008-01-13 Thread skip
The previous four posts were dredged out of the holding pen in Mailman. Sorry for the delay. 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] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-15 Thread skip
over /usr/local and only disrupted other external packages (which you can always reinstall) but instead scribbles all over your home directory, wiping out your almost finished Ph.D. thesis in Library Science which you had saved to ~/lib. Skip ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-15 Thread skip
hough not in home directories). If I want to build a package which relies on zlib, libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, etc., imagine what my CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS arguments look like. :barf: Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-15 Thread skip
Oleg>Why not use GNU stow? Thanks for the reference. I'd never heard of it before. I suspect our IT folks may not have as well. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-16 Thread skip
Would you install, for example, a personal version of gcc there? I wouldn't, but that's just me. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function

2008-01-24 Thread skip
Mike> 2. Is this really the hard-coded behavior we want? I don't think Mike>my use-case is that odd; in fact, what I find very odd is that Mike>the prompt output is send to stderr. I mean, I'm printing the Mike>prompt for a question, not some error message. Can there

Re: [Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function

2008-01-24 Thread skip
>>> raw_input("?") ?sdf 'sdf' >>> ink% python >/dev/null Python 2.4.2 (#1, Feb 23 2006, 12:48:31) [GCC 3.4.1] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more i

Re: [Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function

2008-01-24 Thread skip
ertheless, the behavior without it seems wrong, and is >> certainly different from the documentation. Guido> Agreed. http://bugs.python.org/issue1927 Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

[Python-Dev] TIOBE Programming Community Index

2008-01-26 Thread skip
ols I would have expected JavaScript to have increased in popularity, not decreased. Hmmm... And they have both Delphi and COBOL jumping in popularity by three rungs. At any rate, there you have it. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker marks my messages as spam :-)

2008-02-01 Thread skip
without seeing the classifier's database and input it's kind of hard to be more precise. Over time though, even such short messages should be classified more accurately as the training database grows. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Should a change in search order of directories in setup.py be backported?

2008-02-02 Thread skip
Brett> [fix setup.py search order] Brett> But should this be backported? +1. Seems like a bug to me. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-03 Thread skip
nce with the GNU Emacs code. Finally, on a related note, François Pinard sent me a message yesterday which I have yet to respond to. He is apparently back in the Pymacs saddle. I think a Pymacs-based Python mode would be very cool (in part because I am really not an Emacs Lisp pe

Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-04 Thread skip
e been GPL'd or some such. Which reminds me. I should sync Misc/python-mode.el for both trunk and py3k branches with the latest version from the SF python-mode project. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-04 Thread skip
or non-core development? 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] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-04 Thread skip
d to what an editor is set to do by default. That might be a bit more challenging. I was thinking today that it would be kind of nice to have a set of predefined settings for Python's new C style (someone mentioned producing that). Should that go in the C/C++

Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-04 Thread skip
skip> I should sync Misc/python-mode.el for both trunk and py3k branches skip> with the latest version from the SF python-mode project. Done only on trunk. I trust one of the mega-merges to the py3k branch will copy it there and that backporting to 2.5 is not desired.

Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?

2008-02-04 Thread skip
a future version of that package. 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] Confused about test_bsddb failures on Mac OS X

2008-02-10 Thread skip
I'm having trouble with test_bsddb on my new MacBook Pro (OS X 10.5.1). Many tests give this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/src/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_bsddb.py", line 18, in setUp self.f = self.openmethod[0](self.fname, self.open

Re: [Python-Dev] Confused about test_bsddb failures on Mac OS X

2008-02-10 Thread skip
to be working better now. 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] dir() and __all__

2008-02-15 Thread skip
nd> ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue'] >> I like the second one better. How would you easily ask an object for all its attributes? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r60919 - peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt

2008-02-22 Thread skip
>> Why not just skip the specifics except to say < 80 characters for all >> lines? Don't mention 72, 79 or any other number than 80: Amaury> I often run "svn diff" in a console limited to 80 characters. Amaury> Because of the leading &qu

[Python-Dev] boilerplate.tex

2008-02-22 Thread skip
This message has been popping up in the buildbot mails for several days: > Conflict detected in commontex/boilerplate.tex. Doc build skipped. I have no idea what it means. I don't see it within the core distribution. Can someone take a look at thi

Re: [Python-Dev] Downloads Page

2008-02-24 Thread skip
Michael> The downloads page on python.org shows 2.5.1 as the latest Michael> release: Michael> http://python.org/download/ Thanks. I just checked in a change. I'm not sure how long it takes to update the website, but it should be fair

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] The release process

2008-03-01 Thread skip
lable through MacPorts, at least according to "port search ...". 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-3000] The release process

2008-03-03 Thread skip
Barry> True, but it's just more moving parts to break, especially when I Barry> don't really feel a u/i buys you much[*]. Barry> [*] Skip knows me as a diehard XEmacser so that statement can Barry> pretty much define my standard answer to all such quest

Re: [Python-Dev] RQST: Master Thesis

2008-03-09 Thread skip
hon tracker which implement various optimizations: http://bugs.python.org/ Studying them (and trying them out and attaching comments or reviews of their efficacy) would be a good way to help understand the system. -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 error when running cvs2svn [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-03-13 Thread skip
the correct place for these sorts of questions. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. Also, note that many of us who might read this are at PyCon (http://us.pycon.org/) which starts this morning and continues through the middle of next week. Response rates from this list will be reduced. -- S

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r61403 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

2008-03-15 Thread skip
Mac. I think it's better to use the same format code for both parsing and formatting if possible. 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] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

2008-03-16 Thread skip
ese saved searches public. I suspect you could define one or more saved public searches which correspond to desired hot lists. Aside: Today's my last day here. I'd like to say hi sometime today. Free for lunch? Maybe this would be a good lunchtime discussion. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

2008-03-16 Thread skip
in that tracker so they can either spend more time with their families or work on other things that need doing. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] trunk buildbot status

2008-03-20 Thread skip
Neal> Unfortunately, I don't have ssh access from my hotel room. This Neal> means I won't be able to help much until I get home. There's always the hideously priced access at O'Hare. ;-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

2008-03-20 Thread skip
>> I don't think any of the core committers is qualified to write such a >> document. Instead, it would have to be written by people who >> *actually* ported a project from 2 to 3 in some form. Stephen> Note that this is precisely the kind of e

Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond

2008-03-21 Thread skip
n). That's not sufficient. Suppose file C (e.g. /usr/local/etc/mime.types) is in both packages A and B. Install A - this will create C Install B - this might overwrite C, saving a copy, or it might retain A's copy. Uninstall B - this ha

[Python-Dev] Primer on distributed revision control?

2008-03-21 Thread skip
improved (working offline, maintaining local patches). It's not obvious how I push changes back upstream. Can someone point me to some useful content (web pages or books) which will help me wrap my brain around the ideas? Maybe a compare/contrast of the major players? Thanks,

Re: [Python-Dev] Two questions about jump opcodes

2008-03-22 Thread skip
regard, I don't understand what JUMP_FORWARD can Antoine> possibly bring over JUMP_ABSOLUTE) Well, you can't chain jumps together with the latter. If, for some reason, you needed to jump forward more than 16kbytes you could accomplish that with multipl

Re: [Python-Dev] Making sys.py3k_warning writable

2008-03-23 Thread skip
art itself moving the -3 from after regrtest to before it. 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] Making sys.py3k_warning writable

2008-03-23 Thread skip
skip> Maybe regrtest should gain a -3 flag. All it would have to do is skip> restart itself moving the -3 from after regrtest to before it. Ehh... That didn't seem like such a great idea about 10 seconds after I hit send. Adding a test3 target to Makefile.pre.in is a lot ea

Re: [Python-Dev] Making sys.py3k_warning writable

2008-03-23 Thread skip
So, regarding -3 warnings in the 2.6 test code, should they be fixed 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-24 Thread skip
Barry> All the gory details are documented here: Barry> http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar Thanks. I checked out, made a branch named test3, changed Makefile.pre.in to have a test3 target, checked it in, then tried to push it: % pwd /Users/skip/src/python-bzr/test3

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-25 Thread skip
>> Did I misread the directions or do I really need the --create-prefix >> arg? Barry> You do, the first time you push a user branch because users/skip Barry> doesn't exist yet. It's mentioned in the docs, but it's pretty Barry> easy

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python

2008-03-27 Thread skip
shows 10 pending. It looks like its last run was about 18 hours ago. You would think by now it would have been able to make another run. It pings fine. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python

2008-03-28 Thread skip
Neal> Anything that connects to a remote host is definitely flaky. Would it maybe help to set up a dedicated host (or virtual host) to serve as the sole target of all network tests? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org h

Re: [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

2008-03-29 Thread skip
Benjamin> Once you've pushed the branches, is there a way to remove them? Related question: is there a way to view the various branches in a non-local repository? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.py

[Python-Dev] test_signal on osx g4

2008-04-01 Thread skip
f.pid, 0) child_exception = pickle.loads(data) raise child_exception break Maybe not while True, but try a few times at least. Or is the system supposed to automatically restart interrupted system calls? Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

2008-04-02 Thread skip
that limitation should be reconsidered. I see no other mention of PYTHON2K in any .c, .h or .py files in the trunk. 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] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

2008-04-03 Thread skip
Then there is the 1900 base year issue. I'm certainly no licensing expert, but it seems like we should be able to redistribute it. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

2008-04-03 Thread skip
in timemodule.c. It compiles cleanly and seems to pass all tests. My thought would be to only use this for Python 3.0. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900

2008-04-03 Thread skip
with timezones. I make a quick replacement of Tcl's tzname stuff to get it to compile, but the test fails. It would probably not be much work for someone who understands how the Python datetime/time code handles timezone names. Skip ___ Python-Dev

[Python-Dev] inittimezone - shouldn't it be static?

2008-04-04 Thread skip
Looks to me like the inittimezone function in timemodule.c should be static. I don't see it called from any code other than within that module. If it's not supposed to be static it needs a more pythonic name. (Can't dig into this just now as I'm flying from Denver to Chi

[Python-Dev] configure error: "rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory"

2008-04-05 Thread skip
is a directory". This occurred a few times during the configure process. Didn't cause it to conk out, but is annoying. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://

Re: [Python-Dev] inittimezone - shouldn't it be static?

2008-04-05 Thread skip
>> Looks to me like the inittimezone function in timemodule.c should be >> static. Guido> Sounds like an oversight. Please fix! Done. inittimezone is now declared static. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] configure error: "rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory"

2008-04-06 Thread skip
>> Note the "rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory". This occurred a few >> times during the configure process. Didn't cause it to conk out, but >> is annoying. Brett> I am assuming this is on your OS X machine, Skip? Yes, sorry. I forgot to me

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