Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-23 Thread skip
useless by the time 2.5 comes Robey> out, and may be too late to help anyone anyway. :) So for at least the time being they go up nightly (http://www.trentm.com/python). I don't know what Trent did to make that happen, but he did it fairly quickly. I doubt it would be hard to repl

Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-24 Thread skip
Neal> I guess you might have to binary search by date to try and find Neal> the problem. Probably needs to be a binary search by revision. I believe Martin indicated a side effect of the conversion to subversion was that date-based updates don't

Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-24 Thread skip
Steve> Alternatively, is there any mileage in trying to either get Steve> Sourceforge to provide Windows machines in the compile farm, or Steve> get Microsoft to provide more software fee to Windows testers? How about seeing if Microsoft has or will create a compile fa

Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-25 Thread skip
h, and I'll get right on that Windows thing. Where can I download that again? 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-de

Re: [Python-Dev] Automated Python testing (was Re: status of development documentation)

2005-12-25 Thread skip
Brett> As in some machine I might personally have left on? That would Brett> require a static IP which I don't know how common that will be. Nah, just use dyndns.org. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

2005-12-27 Thread skip
n(12) found sin in math module -0.53657291800043505 Other than that, seems fine to me. 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] a quit that actually quits

2005-12-27 Thread skip
Martin> So if they do >>> quit Martin> they are just as confused as if they got a name error. Probably more so... Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

2005-12-27 Thread skip
t from Pippy or from the interpreter prompt on a Nokia phone without it. In short, I think it makes a lot of sense to support a bare "exit" and/or "quit" as a completely intuitive platform-independent newbie-friendly way to exit the interpreter. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

2005-12-28 Thread skip
his ? I'd make it sys._last_input or something similar to make it clear that a) this is magic, don't mess with it, and that b) this is the last user input, not the raw command line. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Automated Python testing (was Re: status of development documentation)

2005-12-28 Thread skip
to the buildbot command. It might take a couple cycles to get things set up since I don't normally develop on that machine. I'll also have to punch a hole in my Airport to allow access. OTOH, it's more stationary and a lot faster than my laptop. Skip _

Re: [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

2005-12-29 Thread skip
>> (for those who follow non-python forums Fredrik> make that "those who don't follow" What might some of those non-python forums be? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-02 Thread skip
t looks like PATH lost /usr/local/bin (where the Metissian installer puts the svn executable). I added a /usr/bin/svn symlink, but would really rather see /usr/local/bin in PATH. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python

[Python-Dev] Including zlib...

2006-01-03 Thread skip
Martin checked in zlib to the Python svn repository. Are we really sure that including zlib is the only path to whatever it is that it achieves? If security holes in zlib turn up (they have in the past), new Python releases will have to be released quickly. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-03 Thread skip
"obsolete" and that I should upgrade because "we can't be bothered to fix a compiler warning"? Python supports much older versions of other platforms. What makes Mac OSX so special in this regard? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-03 Thread skip
rtin> will be accepted"). It's not ok for a port maintainer to say Martin> "it's not a bug - just upgrade your system". It *is* a bug for Martin> Python to emit warnings on "major platforms" (PEP 7). Thank you. I was beginning to think I was

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-04 Thread skip
sses all tests). Skip % svn diff Modules/getpath.c Index: Modules/getpath.c === --- Modules/getpath.c (revision 41914) +++ Modules/getpath.c (working copy) @@ -381,8 +381,12 @@ NSModule pythonModule; #endif #ifdef __APPL

Re: [Python-Dev] buildbot

2006-01-05 Thread skip
me> This works for me (compiles with no warnings, passes all tests). ... The bagpipe didn't say "no", so I checked this in on trunk and the 2.4 branch. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread skip
buildbot/ to see how long some of the other build bots take and extrapolate from that. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Birkenfeld's gone

2006-01-08 Thread skip
Georg> I then assumed a different name, partly to anonymize myself as Georg> others had advised When I realized that I liked the Georg> community and the development of Python very much, I decided to Georg> "unveil" myself, but I could never overcome myself -- till now. Hmmm.

[Python-Dev] sudo security hole w/ potential Python connection

2006-01-10 Thread skip
s can be exploited by a user with sudo access to a python script >> to gain access to an interactive python prompt via the "PYTHONINSPECT" >> environment variable ... >> <http://secunia.com/advisories/18358/> Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Tkinter

2006-01-10 Thread skip
Tcl/Tk master is these days (still Ousterhout?) could agree to release all three on the same day. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/opti

Re: [Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

2006-01-10 Thread skip
Tim> I'm of the opinion that having a big red warning at the top of the Tim> module documentation ... Do we have semantic markup to support that? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

2006-01-10 Thread skip
Guido> I'm not sure what makes those particular examples less than real Guido> bugs. Users *will* trip over these things. Feel free to hack away at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/CrashingPython I have no idea where (if at all) it should be linked from elsewhere on the

[Python-Dev] Limiting the recursion limit

2006-01-11 Thread skip
>>> sys.setrecursionlimit(1<<30) >>> f = lambda f:f(f) >>> f(f) Segmentation fault Is there some way that Python can determine that 1<<30 is an unreasonable recursion limit? Skip ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot: doing occasional full builds

2006-01-11 Thread skip
performance. All buildbot slaves are contributed hardware. I don't mind the load on my Mac (it's a dual processor g5), but it may be an issue for other people. Does/can buildbot run at a lower priority or is it just a matter of nice-ing the slave pro

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-15 Thread skip
>> does Python have an official icon? Ping> i found some images at http://www.pythonology.com/logos... It appears the yin/yang Python's on that page are being used in the new site (beta.python.org). I don't know if that makes it official o

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
dd a method to ints and longs that returns a string formatted in a base between 2 and 36 (then deprecate hex and oct). Like Jeremy, I wonder what str([1,2], 4) means. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
at, etc). A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess with str(). 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/ar

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
a float, etc). >> Skip> A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess Skip> with str(). Gareth> How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything Gareth> with, say, int(2.345,19)? My reasoning was that just because int() was written to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-17 Thread skip
Georg> Interesting, didn't even know a new page was in the making... Do Georg> you know who is responsible for the new page? Tim Parkin is heading things up. Look here: http://beta.python.org/ Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-18 Thread skip
Raymond> Perhaps introduce a single function, base(val, radix=10, Raymond> prefix=''), as a universal base converter that could replace Raymond> bin(), hex(), oct(), etc. Would it (should it) work with floats, decimals, complexes? I presume it would work with in

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-18 Thread skip
anything like casual use. 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] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-18 Thread skip
ine module work with libedit once upon a time? I believe that's the readline semi-clone that Rich Salz quite awhile ago. I've forgotten the details of the difference (missing history capabilities perhaps). Is there some way we can make libedit palatable again? Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-18 Thread skip
never heard of (syck), Python bindings for the same, and maybe some other stuff. It clearly wasn't just "svn co ..." and start editing. In any case, I couldn't tell what needed doing from the trac site. I'll take another look when I have a chance. I would be happy to simple

[Python-Dev] When will regex really go away?

2006-01-24 Thread skip
I ran Fredrik's listmodules script in my current sandbox and got a deprecation warning for the regex module. According to PEP 4 it is already obsolete. I saw nothing there about the timeframe for actual removal. Will it ever go away? Skip ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] When will regex really go away?

2006-01-24 Thread skip
d, Guido> soundex, cl, sv Guido> of these, regex, regsub, and timing are still importable in 2.4. And in 2.5. Regex and regsub both import with deprecation warnings. Timing imports without a peep. None of the others import. Skip ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Know anyone interested in a Google internship?

2006-01-25 Thread skip
Guido> Google is looking to fill an unprecedented number of student Guido> intern positions this summer, at several US locations Maybe a Python Job Board post would be in order... Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Extension to ConfigParser

2006-01-30 Thread skip
ore powerful seems doomed. If we want more sophisticated functionality a new module should be written, or one of the existing shootout candidates on the Wiki should be chosen and perhaps enhanced. I have a horse in that race (actually, it's more like a pony). Skip ___

Re: [Python-Dev] _length_cue()

2006-02-09 Thread skip
ly need to use a homonym that means something entirely different? (Hint: consider the added difficulty for non-native English speakers). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [Python-Dev] Let's just *keep* lambda

2006-02-09 Thread skip
sions. That statements and expressions are different is a core feature of the language. That is almost certainly not going to change. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] _length_cue()

2006-02-09 Thread skip
c.l.py where it requires a fair amount of detective work just to figure out what the poster has written, what with all the incorrect grammar and wild misspellings. For that sort of person I can believe that "cue", "queue" and "kew" might mean exactly the same thin

Re: [Python-Dev] How to get the Python-2.4.2 sources from SVN?

2006-02-11 Thread skip
as released. With CVS I used to use "cvs log README" to see what all the tags and branches were. I don't know what the equivalent svn command is. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

2014-06-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
I can't see any reason to make a backwards-incompatible change to Python 2 to only support Unicode. You're bound to break somebody's setup. Wouldn't it be better to fix bugs as Serhiy has done? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list P

Re: [Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

2014-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Aye, in this case, I'm in the "officially deprecate the feature" camp. Definitely preferable to the suggestion to remove the configure flag. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Bluetooth 4.0 support in "socket" module

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote: > Is there some online documentation with guidelines on how to contribute? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=contribute+to+python Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Bluetooth 4.0 support in "socket" module

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
#x27;d be happy to buy y'all a beer. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Job Board

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
n a bit though. A better place to comment about the job board (and perhaps volunteer to help with the current effort) is j...@python.org. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubsc

Re: [Python-Dev] Reviving restricted mode?

2014-08-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:42 PM, matsjoyce wrote: > There maybe some holes in my approach, but I can't find them. There's the rub. Given time, I suspect someone will discover a hole or two. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
upgrade flag it tries to uninstall the global version. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
eat if there was a way for it to tell me where on my system it found outdated package X. The --verbose flag tells me all sorts of other stuff I'm not really interested in, but not the installed location of the outdated package. Skip ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > Also, isn't this discussion better suited for Distutils-SIG? I started up a thread there. I'd post an archive link, but it hasn't yet turned up in the distutils-sig archive. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] https:bugs.python.org -- Untrusted Connection (Firefox)

2014-09-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
I got the same in Chrome on my Mac. Skip On Sep 1, 2014 8:00 PM, "John Wong" wrote: > As of today I still am getting untrusted cert thought I would re-ping to > see if there is an ETA. > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> On 8/21/2

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (3.4): Issue #22295: Adopt 'python -m pip' as the preferred invocation

2014-09-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
, if I execute pip install --user SomePackage today, when SomePackage is installed someplace outside ~/.local, pip complains that SomePackage is already installed. If I then execute pip install --user --upgrade SomePackage it tries to remove the outdated more global version of Some

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (3.4): Issue #22295: Adopt 'python -m pip' as the preferred invocation

2014-09-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
he second issue, it doesn't appear this will be resolved until 1.7 at the earliest. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing 2.7.x

2014-10-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > So 2.7.x is not "security only" and wouldn't reach that stage until 2020 > under current policy. Apparently no other 2.x release qualifies as "security only" at this point? I would have expected at least 2.6 to

Re: [Python-Dev] performance delta with .py presence v.s. only pyc on python 2.7.x?

2014-10-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
extension possibilities before trying the .pyc. OTOH, if the .py is present, it might be found early in the search, then as an optimization, look for a .pyc file it can use rather than compiling the .py file. How long is sys.path? Skip ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Dinamically set __call__ method

2014-11-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
same behavior with 2.7 as you see with 3.4. My guess is this causes the different behavior between versions. You might also find it useful to "print A.__call__" and "print a.__call__" with different class statements. Skip ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

2014-11-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
n bookmark the solutions I find (which often turn out to be on stackoverflow). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
und. It seems like "%N" isn't used. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
rated by other applications which has nanosecond resolution. Unless those values are stored as epoch seconds, you're going to need to parse them. It's not clear to me why you'd give people only half the solution they need. Skip ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
7;s existing %f format to accept a precision (defaulting to 6), or add %N in a manner similar (or identical) to Ruby's semantics. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
thon-23 While he doesn't explicitly say so, I got the distinct impression reading his recent blog post that he supports one source, not forked sources. In the absence to evidence to the contrary, I think of Brett as the most expert developer in th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > How about "run 3to2 at installation time?" In theory, yes, but that's not a fork either. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] How do I ensure that my code is being executed?

2015-01-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
rpreter you just built. Can you provide some more context for your question? One last thing. Are you working on Python itself (python-dev@python.org is the right place to ask questions) or using Python to develop an application (python-dev is not the right place, try python-l...@python.org)? S

Re: [Python-Dev] Any grammar experts?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
ple use (basically, the status quo) to fly by silently, but start to chirp when people use the facility in all its baroque glory as enabled by the PEP. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Python-Dev] Any grammar experts?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > So which is it? Precisely... S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-de

Re: [Python-Dev] Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
use help() all the time from the interpreter prompt and never get a GUI. IMO you should be able to strip out the gui() function (or even just comment out the Tkinter import). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.o

[Python-Dev] Undefined reference to dlopen (was: Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?)

2015-01-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
The modules you mention here (as well as pydoc) are all pure Python modules. I don't think any of them would have directly triggered a dlopen error. Do you have a traceback? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?

2015-01-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
going to attempt a port of Python to a new platform, I would still choose to port Python 3. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Tunning binary insertion sort algorithm in Timsort.

2015-03-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
who have ideas to contribute. So what if nha pham's contribution isn't accepted? You never know when the next Tim Peters, Georg Brandl, Mark Dickinson, or Brett Cannon will turn up. (That list is practically endless. Don't feel slighted if I failed to mention you.) With seven billion p

Re: [Python-Dev] typeshed for 3rd party packages

2015-04-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
to choose from!), it needs to recognize that the stub no longer matches the version of "yourmod" I am using, and must ignore it. Does that suggest the typeshed needs some sort of structure which allows all versions of stubs for the same package to be gathered together?

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 492: What is the real goal?

2015-04-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
several generations of computer science graduates will be familiar with the textbook definition. If your use of "coroutine" matches the textbook definition of the term, I think you should continue to use it instead of inventing new names which will just confuse people new to Python. Skip

[Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

2015-05-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
it was expected. Perhaps tests which listen for network connections should also mention that, at least on Macs? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

2015-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
d also be possible. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Python programming language vulnerabilities

2017-09-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
This popped up on python-list. It actually seems to me like it might be interesting to the core developers. Apologies if I've missed my guess. Skip -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Michell Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:34 PM Subject: Python programming lan

Re: [Python-Dev] A reminder for PEP owners

2017-09-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
> But someone has to > review and accept all those PEPs, and I can't do it all by myself. An alternate definition for BDFL is "Benevolent Delegator For Life." :-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Why aren't decorators just expressions?

2017-09-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
might have been the most significant driving force in the development of decorators, which, I believe, were always just thought if as nothing more than syntactic sugar for existing common use cases. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@p

Re: [Python-Dev] Partial support of a platform

2017-11-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
for this platform on this Git branch: https://github.com/python/Butterfly * MothOS - Skip Montanaro (skip.montan...@gmail.com) is working to add CPython support for this platform on this Git branch: https://github.com/smontanaro/Moth Interested parties would be directed to contact the pilots

Re: [Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

2017-11-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
>>> arrow.get('2017-10-20T08:20:08.986166+00:00') >>> arrow.get('2017-10-20T08:20:08.986166+00:00').datetime datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 20, 8, 20, 8, 986166, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, 0)) Skip ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

2017-11-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
aster than dateutil.parser.parse. This makes sense, as the latter tries to figure out what you've given it (you never give it a format string), while in the absence of a format string, arrow.get assumes you have an ISO-8601 date/time, with only a few small variations allowed. Skip On Tue, Nov 28,

Re: [Python-Dev] Support of the Android platform

2017-12-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
I'm not familiar with software development on/for Android, but wouldn't official support also involve suitable package creation or does that just fall out for free from the build-for-emulator PR? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] [ssl] The weird case of IDNA

2017-12-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Guido wrote: This being a security issue I think it's okay to break 3.6. might even backport to 3.5 if it's easy? Is it also a security issue with 2.x? If so, should a fix to 2.7 be contemplated? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
tation for the user-defined commands). Unfortunately, it's been so long since I contributed, I don't quite understand the ins and outs of the workflow anymore. In particular, I could find no way to add the "skip news" label. I'm afraid someone might have to intervene here: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
from special-purpose > patch branches, as described in the devguide. Thanks. I clearly need to brush up on workflow and etiquette. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsu

Re: [Python-Dev] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Modifying GitHub Labels is only available to people with commit privs and, > IIRC, Skip asked to drop his commit privs a few years ago (although I'm sure > we would all be happy to welcome him back!). Alas, then I would feel some obligation to be semi-responsive to buggy things

[Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

2018-04-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] Trying to build from source, test-poplib fails

2018-04-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
_poplib.py: test_stls_context (__main__.TestPOP3Class) ... Exception in thread Thread-16: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "Lib/test/test_poplib.py", line 227, in run asyn

Re: [Python-Dev] Trying to build from source, test-poplib fails

2018-04-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Do you have ca-certificates installed? It seems so: % apt search ca-certificates | grep installed ca-certificates/artful,artful,now 20170717 all [installed] ca-certificates-mono/artful,artful,now 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 all [installed,automatic] liblwp-protocol-https-perl/artful,artful,now 6.07-

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

2018-04-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
ereas in Python, the syntax motto might better be stated, "We will ship no syntax before its time." (With apologies to Ernest and Julio Gallo.) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?

2018-05-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
d* do: * submit some bug reports * review patches related to the problems, assuming there are some * write some patches for the documentation adding warnings about sketchy bits Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?

2018-05-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
itself being deprecated, then removed, from the stdlib. I believe it was the sole persistent key/value store for most of the early years. So, bugs or not (& fixable or not) it's not like we haven't encountered this kind of case before. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] (Looking for) A Retrospective on the Move to Python 3

2018-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
> I have found 2to3 conversion to be remarkably easy and painless. > And the whole Unicode thing is much easier. The intersection of bytes, str and unicode has been the only pain point for me. Everything else I've encountered has been pretty tri

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services (GH-6865) (GH-6925)

2018-05-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
ill be improvements, but I think such changes belong in separate PRs. Even if that means you have to postpone the core bits of this change until they are merged. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

[Python-Dev] "make test" routinely fails to terminate

2018-05-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/unittest/mock.py", line 1191, in patched return func(*args, **keywargs) File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_unix_events.py", line 219, in test_remove_signal_handler

[Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
nd of drastic, and I will do it if that's really the only way, but this seems like functionality Git and/or GitHub probably supports. Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev U

Re: [Python-Dev] "make test" routinely fails to terminate

2018-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
th that for now. If "make distclean" is required, I suspect there is a missing/incorrect/incomplete Make dependency somewhere. I suppose "make distclean" is cheap enough that I should do it whenever I switch branches. Skip ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Create it from upstream? Yep! Try this: > git checkout -b 3.7 upstream/3.7 > git push -u origin 3.7 Thanks, Chris! Didn't have to chug for too long either, just a few seconds. S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.or

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
lity of point releases.) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] "make test" routinely fails to terminate

2018-05-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
t I can live with that for now. Final follow-up. I finally got myself a workable, updateable 3.7 branch in my fork. It looks like the asyncio issues are alsy resolved on both 3.7 and master. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Python3 compiled listcomp can't see local var - bug or feature?

2018-06-08 Thread Skip Montanaro
y3 behavior as one of those "corrections" to things which were "got wrong" in Python 1 or 2. :-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail

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