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<title>Adding a maximum element count to parse_qs?</title>
<description>Hello, Given the randomization fix will ship disabled, I thought it would be nice to add a maximum element count argument to urlparse.parse_qs, with</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 12:17:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/967147</link>
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<title>PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems)</title>
<description>PEP 394 [1] aims to document our collective recommendation for allowing shebang lines to specifically request some version of 2.x, without requiring t</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 01:04:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/967052</link>
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<title>Re: requirements for moving __import__ over to	importlib?</title>
<description>Le 07/02/2012 23:21, Brett Cannon a Ã©crit : &amp;gt; On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 15:28, Dirkjan Ochtman &amp;lt;dirkjan@ochtman.nl&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; Yeah, startup performance</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 22:51:46 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/967033</link>
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<title>Re: PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python	standard library</title>
<description>Eric Snow wrote: &amp;gt; On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Eli Bendersky &amp;lt;eliben@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 22:13, Jim J. Jewett &amp;lt;jimjjewet</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 23:29:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966871</link>
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<title>http://pythonmentors.com/</title>
<description>Hi all, I&amp;#039;d never heard of this until some Dutch geezer whose name I&amp;#039;m now forgotten pointed me to it. Had I known about it a couple of years ago</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 17:27:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966821</link>
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<title>PEP 411: Provisional packages in the Python standard library</title>
<description>Hi all, Following the intensive and fruitful discussion of the (now rejected) PEP 408 (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/11585</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 06:06:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966704</link>
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<title>Fwd: maintenance of the ElementTree / cElementTree packages in the Python standard library</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fredrik Lundh &amp;lt;fredrik@pythonware.com&amp;gt; Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 13:16 Subject: Re: maintenance of the</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 03:26:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966678</link>
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<title>maintenance of the ElementTree / cElementTree packages in the Python standard library</title>
<description>Hello Fredrik, Recently a discussion came up on the python-dev mailing list regarding continued maintenance of the ElementTree &amp;amp; cElementTree package</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 02:32:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966673</link>
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<title>PyPy 1.8 released</title>
<description>============================ PyPy 1.8 - business as usual ============================ We&amp;#039;re pleased to announce the 1.8 release of PyPy. As habitual</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 01:44:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966655</link>
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<title>patch</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 05:41:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966415</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: PEP 410</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM, victor.stinner &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f8409b3d6449 &amp;gt; changeset:   7483</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 20:48:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966355</link>
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<title>ctypes/utils.py problem</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I&amp;#039;m working with the LTTng (Linux Tracing) team and we came across a problem with our use</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 15:03:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966317</link>
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<title>PEP for new dictionary implementation</title>
<description>Proposed PEP for new dictionary implementation, PEP 410? is attached. Cheers, Mark.</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 11:18:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966268</link>
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<title>Code review tool uses my old email address</title>
<description>Hi, I changed my email address (about a year ago) and updated my bug tracker settings to my new address (late last year). However, the code review t</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 09:13:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966249</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] Daily reference leaks (140f7de4d2a5): sum=888</title>
<description>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:34 PM, &amp;lt;solipsis@pitrou.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; results for 140f7de4d2a5 on branch &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; &amp;gt; ---------------------------------------</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 04:46:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966178</link>
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<title>folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3</title>
<description>Hello, Here&amp;#039;s a note from &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s new in Python 3.0&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;A common pattern in Python 2.x is to have one version of a module implemented in pure Pytho</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 19:59:21 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966104</link>
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<title>Add a new &amp;quot;locale&amp;quot; codec?</title>
<description>Hi, I added PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize() and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() to Python 3.3 to fix bugs. I hesitate to expose th</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 16:02:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966060</link>
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<title>Re: requirements for moving import over to	importlib?</title>
<description>Brett Cannon &amp;lt;brett &amp;lt;at&amp;gt; python.org&amp;gt; writes:  &amp;gt; IOW you want the sys.modules case fast, which I will never be able to match compared to C code since</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 15:26:21 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966058</link>
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<title>Re: which C language standard CPython must conform to</title>
<description>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:41 PM, &amp;quot;Martin v. Löwis&amp;quot; &amp;lt;martin@v.loewis.de&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Am 07.02.2012 20:10, schrieb Gregory P. Smith: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; Why do we still care</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 14:24:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966054</link>
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<title>requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m going to start this off with the caveat that hg.python.org/sandbox/bcannon#bootstrap_importlib is not completely at feature parity, but getting th</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 12:07:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/966003</link>
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<title>[Python-ideas] matrix operations on dict :)</title>
<description>On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Steven D&amp;#039;Aprano &amp;lt;steve@pearwood.info&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:01:29PM +0100, julien tayon wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Hell</description>
<pubDate>07 Feb  2012 08:55:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965996</link>
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<title>importlib quest</title>
<description>On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:57:56 -0500 Brett Cannon &amp;lt;brett@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Thanks for any help people can provide me on this now 5 year quest to get &amp;gt;</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 11:49:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965856</link>
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<title>Is this safe enough? Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: _Py_Identifier are always ASCII strings</title>
<description>I realize that _Py_Identifier is a private name, and that PEP 3131 requires anything (except test cases) in the standard library to stick with ASCII .</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 08:28:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965827</link>
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<title>need help with frozen module/marshal/gc issue involving sub-interpreters for importlib bootstrapping</title>
<description>So my grand quest for bootstrapping importlib into CPython is damn close to coming to fruition; I have one nasty bug blocking my way and I can&amp;#039;t figur</description>
<pubDate>06 Feb  2012 06:57:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965804</link>
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<title>Re: cpython (3.2): remove unused import</title>
<description>Am 06.02.2012 01:39, schrieb Brett Cannon: &amp;gt; I&amp;#039;m going to assume pylint or pyflakes would throw too many warnings on &amp;gt; the stdlib, but would it be wor</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 16:53:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965745</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): remove unused import</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m going to assume pylint or pyflakes would throw too many warnings on the stdlib, but would it be worth someone&amp;#039;s time to write a simple unused impo</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 16:39:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965744</link>
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<title>Re: peps: Update with bugfix releases.</title>
<description>In article &amp;lt;E1Ru7G3-0007Mb-3R@dinsdale.python.org&amp;gt;, georg.brandl &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; +Bugfix Releases &amp;gt; +=============== &amp;gt; + &amp;gt; +-</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 11:23:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965696</link>
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<title>Volunteer</title>
<description>You may remember me from a couple of years ago when I was trying to help out with Python. Unfortunately I trod on a few toes. I now know why. I ha</description>
<pubDate>05 Feb  2012 09:44:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965682</link>
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<title>OS X build break</title>
<description>On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Guido van Rossum &amp;lt;guido@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; PS. I would propose a specific fix but I can&amp;#039;t seem to build a working</description>
<pubDate>03 Feb  2012 22:11:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965475</link>
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<title>Dev In a Box: Pumped for a better UX (with video)</title>
<description>Hi, If you don&amp;#039;t know, Dev In a Box is &amp;quot;everything you need to contribute to Python in under 700 MB&amp;quot;. I&amp;#039;ve patched it up to the latest standards of</description>
<pubDate>03 Feb  2012 09:27:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965342</link>
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<title>open issues on accepted PEPs</title>
<description>I was looking at the other Open Issues on PEP 3134, think I might try to resolve them as well, and discovered via testing that they have already bee</description>
<pubDate>02 Feb  2012 15:16:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965197</link>
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<title>PEP: New timestamp formats</title>
<description>Even if I am not really conviced that a PEP helps to design an API, here is a draft of a PEP to add new timestamp formats to Python 3.3. Don&amp;#039;t see the</description>
<pubDate>01 Feb  2012 17:03:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/965046</link>
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<title>docs fixes and PEP 409</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m looking at the docs to make the relevant changes due to PEP 409, and I&amp;#039;m noticing some problems. E.g. The PyException_Get|Set_Context|Cause all</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 21:07:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964866</link>
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<title>PEP 409 - now properly formatted (sorry for the noise)</title>
<description>PEP: 409 Title: Suppressing exception context Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Ethan Furman &amp;lt;ethan@stoneleaf.us&amp;gt; Status: Draft Type:</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 19:58:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964864</link>
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<title>PEP 409 - final?</title>
<description>I haven&amp;#039;t seen any further discussion here or in the bug tracker. Below is the latest version of this PEP, now with a section on Language Details.</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 19:57:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964863</link>
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<title>PEPs and cons (was: Re: Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects)</title>
<description>Nick Coghlan, 31.01.2012 12:11: &amp;gt; On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I think this is definitely worth elaborating in a PEP (to</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 05:19:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964732</link>
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<title>cdecimal (Was: Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects)</title>
<description>On 31 January 2012 11:11, Nick Coghlan &amp;lt;ncoghlan@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; although decimal.Decimal is also a contender if backed up by &amp;gt; Stefan&amp;#039;s C impleme</description>
<pubDate>31 Jan  2012 03:47:27 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964711</link>
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<title>Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects</title>
<description>Hi, In issues #13882 and #11457, I propose to add an argument to functions returning timestamps to choose the timestamp format. Python uses float in</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 15:31:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964669</link>
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<title>PEP 3144 ipaddr module (was Re: PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package)</title>
<description>On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Scott Dial &amp;lt;scott+python-dev@scottdial.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; PEP 3144 wasn&amp;#039;t pronounced upon because there were significant &amp;gt;</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 13:44:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964641</link>
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<title>Re: cpython: Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming with</title>
<description>On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:26:30 -0500 Brett Cannon &amp;lt;brett@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Should this end up being used in importlib through _os? Yes, probably. I</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 13:34:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964640</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming with</title>
<description>Should this end up being used in importlib through _os? On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 16:11, antoine.pitrou &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt;wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 13:26:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964639</link>
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<title>Release cycle question</title>
<description>Hello everyone. I&amp;#039;m writing to ask if Python uses a &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; release time or if it depends strongly on something else. In example, Blender does and sin</description>
<pubDate>30 Jan  2012 01:51:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964567</link>
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<title>#include &amp;quot;Python.h&amp;quot;</title>
<description>I have a newbie question about CPython. Looking at the C code I noted that for example in tupleobject.c there is only one include #include &amp;quot;Python.h&amp;quot;</description>
<pubDate>29 Jan  2012 07:34:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964430</link>
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<title>A new dictionary implementation</title>
<description>Hi, Now that issue 13703 has been largely settled, I want to propose my new dictionary implementation again. It is a little more polished than before</description>
<pubDate>29 Jan  2012 02:31:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964393</link>
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<title>threading.Semaphore()&amp;#039;s counter can become negative for non-ints</title>
<description>Hello python-dev, This is probably worth of a bug report: While looking at threading.py I noticed that Semaphore&amp;#039;s counter can go below zero. This i</description>
<pubDate>28 Jan  2012 11:59:10 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964221</link>
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<title>Python 3 benchmarks</title>
<description>Hi Something that&amp;#039;s maybe worth mentioning is that the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; python benchmark suite http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ has a pretty incomplete set</description>
<pubDate>28 Jan  2012 04:21:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964153</link>
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<title>plugging the hash attack</title>
<description>Hello everyone, In effort to get a fix out before Perl 6 goes mainstream, Barry and I have decided to pronounce on what we want for our stable release</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 17:19:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964085</link>
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<title>Hashing proposal: 64-bit hash</title>
<description>As already mentioned, the vulnerability of 64-bit Python rather theoretical and not practical. The size of the hash makes the attack is extremely unli</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 11:59:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/964011</link>
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<title>Re: PEP 408 -- Standard library preview package</title>
<description>Eli Bendersky &amp;lt;eliben &amp;lt;at&amp;gt; gmail.com&amp;gt; writes: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Hello, &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Following an earlier discussion on python-ideas [1], we would like to &amp;gt; propose the fo</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 09:26:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963997</link>
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<title>PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package</title>
<description>Hello, Following an earlier discussion on python-ideas [1], we would like to propose the following PEP for review. Discussion is welcome. The PEP can</description>
<pubDate>27 Jan  2012 05:21:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963958</link>
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<title>Re: [issue13703] Hash collision security issue</title>
<description>On 1/26/2012 10:25 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: &amp;gt; (and on top of all of this I believe we&amp;#039;re all settled on having per &amp;gt; interpreter hash randomization</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 22:47:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963900</link>
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<title>PEP for allowing &amp;#039;raise NewException from None&amp;#039;</title>
<description>PEP: XXX Title: Interpreter support for concurrent programming Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Ethan Furman &amp;lt;ethan@stoneleaf.us&amp;gt; Sta</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 19:19:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963883</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-ideas] Coroutines and PEP 380</title>
<description>Nick Coghlan wrote: &amp;gt; (redirecting to python-ideas - coroutine proposals are nowhere near &amp;gt; mature enough for python-dev) &amp;gt; &amp;gt; On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at</description>
<pubDate>26 Jan  2012 01:30:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963752</link>
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<title>distutils &amp;#039;depends&amp;#039; management</title>
<description>Hello, I&amp;#039;ve noted that distutils manages depends in a way I cannot understand. Suppose I have a minimal setup.py: from distutils.core import setup,</description>
<pubDate>25 Jan  2012 01:41:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963555</link>
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<title>io module types</title>
<description>Can calls to the C types in the io module be made into module lookups more akin to how it would work were it written in Python? The C implementation f</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 21:32:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963533</link>
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<title>Re: Counting collisions w/ no need for a fatal exception</title>
<description>On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Tim Delaney &amp;lt;timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On 23 January 2012 16:49, Lennart Regebro &amp;lt;regebro@gmail.com&amp;gt; wro</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 21:24:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963532</link>
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<title>Status of Mac buildbots</title>
<description>Hi all, I&amp;#039;ve noticed that most of the Mac buildbots have been offline for a while: * http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/buildslaves/parc-snowleo</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 20:05:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963526</link>
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<title>Packaging and setuptools compatibility</title>
<description>Hi folks, I have this in my mind since a long time, but I didn&amp;#039;t talked about that on this list, was only writing on distutils@ or another list we h</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 12:54:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: devguide: Use -j0 to maximimze parallel execution.</title>
<description>Am 24.01.2012 18:58, schrieb brett.cannon: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/a34e4a6b89dc &amp;gt; changeset:  489:a34e4a6b89dc &amp;gt; user:    Brett Canno</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 10:52:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963494</link>
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<title>Sprinting at PyCon US</title>
<description>I went ahead and signed us up as usual: https://us.pycon.org/2012/community/sprints/projects/ . I listed myself as the leader, but I will only be at</description>
<pubDate>24 Jan  2012 07:42:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963440</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Fixes issue #8052: The posix subprocess module&amp;#039;s close_fds behavior was</title>
<description>2012/1/21 gregory.p.smith &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt;: ... &amp;gt; +/* Convert ASCII to a positive int, no libc call. no overflow. -1 on error. */ Is no l</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 16:21:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963031</link>
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<title>Re: cpython (3.2): Fixes issue #8052: The posix subprocess module&amp;#039;s close_fds behavior was</title>
<description>On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:39:41 +0100 gregory.p.smith &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/61aa484a3e54 &amp;gt; changeset:</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 14:52:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963021</link>
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<title>Re: cpython (3.2): Avoid the compiler warning about	the unused return value.</title>
<description>Benjamin Peterson &amp;lt;benjamin@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Can&amp;#039;t that give you another warning about the ssize_t being truncated to &amp;gt; &amp;gt; int? &amp;gt; &amp;gt; How about the</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 14:33:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963019</link>
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<title>Re: cpython (3.2): Avoid the compiler warning about the unused return value.</title>
<description>On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:51:43 +0100 gregory.p.smith &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d01fecadf3ea &amp;gt; changeset:</description>
<pubDate>21 Jan  2012 14:20:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/963017</link>
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<title>negative ref count on windows debug version</title>
<description>Hello, using loc = PyDict_New(); Py_XDECREF(loc); or PyObject *src = Py_CompileString( code.toStdString().c_str(), &amp;quot;&amp;lt;console&amp;gt;&amp;quot;, Py_single_input );</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 12:20:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962869</link>
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<title>exception chaining</title>
<description>Summary: Exception Chaining is cool, unless you are writing libraries that want to transform from Exception X to Exception Y as the the previous ex</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 09:09:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962830</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython (3.1): Closes #13807: Now checks for sys.stderr being there before writing to it.</title>
<description>On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, vinay.sajip &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/73dad4940b88 &amp;gt; changeset:   74538:</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 07:02:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962801</link>
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<title>Changing the order of iteration over a dictionary</title>
<description>Hi, One of the main sticking points over possible fixes for the hash-collision security issue seems to be a fear that changing the iteration order</description>
<pubDate>20 Jan  2012 02:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962769</link>
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<title>Counting collisions for the win</title>
<description>Hi, I&amp;#039;m working on the hash collision issue since 2 or 3 weeks. I evaluated all solutions and I think that I have now a good knowledge of the problem</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 16:48:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962705</link>
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<title>python build failed on mac</title>
<description>Hi all, I am trying to build python 3 on mac and build failing with following error can somebody help me with this  $ hg clone http://hg.python.or</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 15:56:25 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962697</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue #13605: add documentation for nargs=argparse.REMAINDER</title>
<description>On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:03 PM, sandro.tosi &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; + Â are gathered into a lits. This is commonly useful for command</description>
<pubDate>19 Jan  2012 13:09:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962681</link>
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<title>Re: Writable __doc__</title>
<description>On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ethan Furman &amp;lt;ethan@stoneleaf.us&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Is there a reason why normal classes can&amp;#039;t have their __doc__ strings &amp;gt; re</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 19:31:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962527</link>
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<title>Writable __doc__</title>
<description>Is there a reason why normal classes can&amp;#039;t have their __doc__ strings rewritten? Creating a do-nothing metaclass seems like overkill for such a sim</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 16:01:23 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962536</link>
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<title>Re: Daily reference leaks (12de1ad1cee8): sum=6024</title>
<description>On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:06:07 +1000 Nick Coghlan &amp;lt;ncoghlan@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, &amp;lt;solipsis@pitrou.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; resul</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 07:56:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962407</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] Daily reference leaks (12de1ad1cee8): sum=6024</title>
<description>On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, &amp;lt;solipsis@pitrou.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; results for 12de1ad1cee8 on branch &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; &amp;gt; --------------------------------------</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 07:06:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962403</link>
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<title>Re: PEP 407 / splitting the stdlib</title>
<description>Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 Ã  21:26 +1000, Nick Coghlan a Ã©crit : &amp;gt; I&amp;#039;m also wholly in agreement with Ezio that using the &amp;gt; same versioning scheme f</description>
<pubDate>18 Jan  2012 04:30:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962378</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: Refactored logging rotating handlers for improved flexibility.</title>
<description>Hi, &amp;gt; changeset:  57295c4d81ac &amp;gt; user:    Vinay Sajip &amp;lt;vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk&amp;gt; &amp;gt; date:    Wed Jan 04 12:02:26 2012 +0000 &amp;gt; summary: &amp;gt;  Ref</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 16:39:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962297</link>
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<title>Coroutines and PEP 380</title>
<description>Hi all. Lets start controversially: I don&amp;#039;t like PEP 380, I think it&amp;#039;s a kludge. I think that CPython should have proper coroutines, rather than add</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 14:03:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962246</link>
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<title>Hashing proposal: change only string-only dicts</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;d like to propose a different approach to seeding the string hashes: only do so for dictionaries involving only strings, and leave the tp_hash slot</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 12:59:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962241</link>
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<title>Switching to Visual Studio 2010</title>
<description>It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk switches to Visual Studio 2010 *now*. I&amp;#039;ve been hesitant to agree to such a change, a</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 12:43:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962238</link>
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<title>PEP 407: New release cycle and introducing long-term support versions</title>
<description>Hello, We would like to propose the following PEP to change (C)Python&amp;#039;s release cycle. Discussion is welcome, especially from people involved in the</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 12:34:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962237</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: provide a common method to check for RETR DATA validity, first checking the</title>
<description>Hi Giampaolo, &amp;gt; changeset:  53a5a5b8859d &amp;gt; user:    Giampaolo Rodola&amp;#039; &amp;lt;g.rodola@gmail.com&amp;gt; &amp;gt; date:    Mon Jan 09 17:10:10 2012 +0100 &amp;gt; summa</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 09:27:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962206</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: add str.casefold() (closes #13752)</title>
<description>Hi, &amp;gt; changeset:  d4669f43d05f &amp;gt; user:    Benjamin Peterson &amp;lt;benjamin@python.org&amp;gt; &amp;gt; date:    Sat Jan 14 13:23:30 2012 -0500 &amp;gt; summary: &amp;gt;  a</description>
<pubDate>17 Jan  2012 09:26:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962205</link>
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<title>Script(s) for building Python on Windows</title>
<description>The current scripts for building Python lack some things to be desired.   The first thing I notice when I try to build Python on Windows is the scri</description>
<pubDate>16 Jan  2012 12:00:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962053</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] peps: Bring the Python 3.3 feature list up to date.</title>
<description>Is the change to the pyc format big enough news to go into the release PEP? Or should that just be a &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s New&amp;quot; topic? On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:1</description>
<pubDate>16 Jan  2012 08:17:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/962006</link>
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<title>Re: Python-Dev Digest, Vol 102, Issue 35</title>
<description>jbk python-dev-request@python.orgç¼-å†™ï¼š &amp;gt;Send Python-Dev mailing list submissions to &amp;gt;    python-dev@python.org &amp;gt; &amp;gt;To subscribe or unsubscribe</description>
<pubDate>16 Jan  2012 02:23:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961957</link>
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<title>Dinsdale is no more</title>
<description>Gentlemen, www.python.org is down at the moment. -- Best regards, £ukasz Langa Senior Systems Architecture Engineer IT Infrastructure Department Gr</description>
<pubDate>15 Jan  2012 06:17:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961818</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;Documenting Python&amp;quot; is moving to devguide</title>
<description>Hi all, (another) heads-up about my current work: I&amp;#039;ve just pushed the &amp;quot;Documenting Python&amp;quot; doc section (ftr: http://docs.python.org/documenting/index</description>
<pubDate>14 Jan  2012 10:09:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>2.7 now uses Sphinx 1.0</title>
<description>Hello, just a heads-up: documentation for 2.7 branch has been ported to use sphinx 1.0, so now the same syntax can be used for 2.x and 3.x patches, ho</description>
<pubDate>14 Jan  2012 08:14:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961707</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: add test, which was missing from d64ac9ab4cd0</title>
<description>On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:39 AM, benjamin.peterson &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/be85914b611c &amp;gt; changeset:  </description>
<pubDate>13 Jan  2012 21:16:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961631</link>
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<title>Re: Status of the fix for the hash collision	vulnerability</title>
<description>On 14/01/12 12:58, Gregory P. Smith wrote: &amp;gt; I do like *randomly seeding the hash*. *+1*. This is easy. It can easily be &amp;gt; back ported to any Python</description>
<pubDate>13 Jan  2012 18:55:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961595</link>
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<title>Backwards incompatible sys.stdout.write() behavior in Python 3 (Was: [Python-ideas] Pythonic buffering in Py3 print())</title>
<description>Posting to python-dev as it is no more relates to the idea of improving print().  sys.stdout.write() in Python 3 causes backwards incompatible behavi</description>
<pubDate>13 Jan  2012 07:34:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961453</link>
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<title>Re: cpython: Implement PEP 380 - &amp;#039;yield from&amp;#039; (closes #11682)</title>
<description>Caution, long review ahead. On 01/13/2012 12:43 PM, nick.coghlan wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d64ac9ab4cd0 &amp;gt; changeset:  74356:d64ac9ab</description>
<pubDate>13 Jan  2012 07:17:09 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961452</link>
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<title>PEP 380 (&amp;quot;yield from&amp;quot;) is now Final</title>
<description>I marked PEP 380 as Final this evening, after pushing the tested and documented implementation to hg.python.org: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d64a</description>
<pubDate>13 Jan  2012 04:14:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961426</link>
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<title>Status of the fix for the hash collision vulnerability</title>
<description>Many people proposed their own idea to fix the vulnerability, but only 3 wrote a patch: - Glenn Linderman proposes to fix the vulnerability by adding</description>
<pubDate>12 Jan  2012 17:24:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961385</link>
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<title>shutil.copy() and hard links</title>
<description>Hello, here is another fun fact about links, this time hard links and the shutil.copy() function. The shutil.copy() functions behaves like the Unix</description>
<pubDate>11 Jan  2012 01:49:46 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961122</link>
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<title>os.walk() with followlinks=False</title>
<description>When discussing http://bugs.python.org/issue13734, Charles-François noted that when os.walk() is called with &amp;quot;followlinks=False&amp;quot;, symlinks to director</description>
<pubDate>10 Jan  2012 18:25:46 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/961074</link>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Fix stock symbol for Microsoft</title>
<description>You may port the fix to 3.2 and 3.3. Victor 2012/1/10 raymond.hettinger &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/068ce5d7f7e</description>
<pubDate>10 Jan  2012 05:08:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/960979</link>
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<title>AUTO: Jon K Peck is out of the office (returning 01/12/2012)</title>
<description>I am out of the office until 01/12/2012. I will be out of the office Monda through Wednesday with limited access to email.  Note: This is an automat</description>
<pubDate>10 Jan  2012 03:00:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.</title>
<description>On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:40 AM, charles-francois.natali &amp;lt;python-checkins@python.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bf609baff4d3 &amp;gt; changes</description>
<pubDate>10 Jan  2012 00:50:11 -0800</pubDate>
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