Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 22 Nov 2008 11:27:15 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg Brett Cannon has suggested [1] that the logging package should provide an implementation of warnings.showwarning which redirects to logging. Here are 22 Nov 2008 03:12:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/695102 In concur that it is not a regression (esp for Py2.6). OTOH, it would be nice to have -m run as expected. It seems reasonable to me to get this workin 21 Nov 2008 20:40:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/695046 Ok, now I'm implementing __format__ support for IronPython. The format spec mini-language docs say that a presentation type of None is the same as 'g 21 Nov 2008 16:51:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/695015 A trick we added to 2.6 that users seem to not notice is that it is now possible to execute zipfiles and directories from the command line by includin 21 Nov 2008 15:52:42 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694985 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the third a 21 Nov 2008 07:06:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694836 Hello there. I recently created this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue4336 I've had no response so far. This patch solved a serious performance pr 20 Nov 2008 07:59:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694553 Hello! Does someone systematically track the CVE vulnerability list? Ideally, Python security officers would have close collaboration with whoever 20 Nov 2008 01:37:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694503 > In which case why not just hold the release until all installers are > available? That is how Anthony Baxter handled things, indeed, and I would a 19 Nov 2008 11:40:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694383 Can someone please add the attached SSH 2 DSA key for me? I want to be able to help out with the rc tomorrow while I am at work. -Brett 18 Nov 2008 13:17:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694126 I've been implementing bytearray for IronPython and I noticed a couple of spots where the non-mutating methods of bytearray return self. In 2.6 but n 18 Nov 2008 13:01:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694124 I haven't seen anyone mention it on this list, and there was one message on distutils-sig but it seems to have gone ignored [1]. Uploading packages t 18 Nov 2008 05:23:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694073 I need a release manager call on whether or not the proposed resolution of this issue goes beyond what is acceptable for a bug fix in 2.6.1. Short ve 18 Nov 2008 02:55:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/694046 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin suggests, and I agree, that we should release Python 3.0 final and 2.6.1 at the same time. Ma 17 Nov 2008 17:56:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693970 Hello to all, I am writing a program in python to convert Indic true type fonts in Unicode. I like to know is there any way to read the fonts and on t 16 Nov 2008 23:17:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693747 For an unknown reason, datetime.date.today() began throwing a cryptic "AttributeError: time" exception. It took me a while to figure out that this was 16 Nov 2008 05:00:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693602 Wow, how long has this been? OK, so these aren't really the summaries. It is half-done summaries, which I've posted to the wiki for community collabor 15 Nov 2008 22:39:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693559 The Setup doc I sent to the list a little while back has now been put online at http://www.python.org/dev/setup/ . I also fleshed out the dev FAQ so t 14 Nov 2008 23:35:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693439 Hi, There are some interresting tickets about the datetime module: #1673409: datetime module missing some important methods #1083: Confusing error me 14 Nov 2008 14:59:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693374 Hello everybody, As part of an advanced compiler design course at our university (ETH Zurich), we have to implement an optimization (or various there 14 Nov 2008 06:27:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693265 Working on the spam filters... hit 'd' now... S _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:/ 13 Nov 2008 20:50:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693196 I use new sparse checkouts feature added in SVN 1.5 a lot to save some traffic when working with Python code. However, when server is older than 1.5, 13 Nov 2008 04:49:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/693025 I'm trying to build a Python25.chm file using the source in the Python 2.5.2 tarball. I'm not really a Windows guru so I'm at a loss of even where 12 Nov 2008 16:12:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692950 Hi all! I generated this info for other list, thought that it could be valuable to share it here... I've been collecting some statistics since Januar 11 Nov 2008 18:08:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692757 As Victor Stinner mentioned in a recent thread, there's a patch in the works to add a numbits ... um ... gadget to integers, returning the number of b 11 Nov 2008 16:16:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692722 Hi, Patches ======= There are some very interesting propositions (with patches!) to optimize Python int and long types (especially the long integer 11 Nov 2008 05:25:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692584 The current Py3k documentation [1] states that the built-in exec() function should be able to execute code from "open file objects": --- 8< --- exe 11 Nov 2008 04:00:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692583 Thanks to the flu that I am getting over I finally got around to start writing the dev docs I have been planning to author for years. The first one is 08 Nov 2008 19:04:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/692102 Hi all, a while back there was a discussion about new operators for the language, which ended in people mentioning that the status of PEP 225 was sti 07 Nov 2008 20:01:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691971 Are there plans for a 2.4 release that includes: http://bugs.python.org/issue2620, and http://svn.python.org/view?rev=65335&view=rev ? These (and 07 Nov 2008 06:24:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691831 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the second 06 Nov 2008 19:53:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691726 I wrote a patch to Tom Lee's AST optimization branch, which I have submitted at http://bugs.python.org/issue4264. Here's a brief explanation of what 05 Nov 2008 11:48:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691356 Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats? Is there any good reason range and xrange don't threat floats as floats but as integers? When I en 05 Nov 2008 10:26:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691347 (working on spam system - just hit 'd') _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth 05 Nov 2008 03:20:45 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691284 OK, I give: git is in the running. But do realize it will take a lot for it to beat out bzr or hg. I have emailed some people who have shown allegian 04 Nov 2008 16:34:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/691223 Grepping through Python's sources tells me that we have over 2,000 "XXX" comments. The thing that irks me about them is that the have a very slow rate 03 Nov 2008 15:39:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690913 Martin added a new "stage" field in the tracker so that issues can now be more clearly identified in terms of what is needed to move them forward. For 03 Nov 2008 14:13:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690882 I've read some of the past discussion about including GMP into the python core and understand the reasons for not doing so. Rather than that, what ab 03 Nov 2008 09:56:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690833 As some of you know, I've provided a PyPI version of the 2.6/3.x "ssl" module, for use with older versions of Python. I've received this request to t 03 Nov 2008 08:21:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690786 Stefan Behnel wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: >> Moving more C extensions to an implementation based on ctypes would be >> enormously useful for PyPy, I 03 Nov 2008 03:29:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690709 hi all, i am trying to find out where is the part of the code in the python interpreter that opens up the .py file and parses it. in particular, i am 02 Nov 2008 23:04:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690683 Hi, I need to select a text of text field! Which function is used for selection of text of text field? Sonia, > From: python-dev-request@python.org> 02 Nov 2008 19:59:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690669 I have started the DVCS PEP which can be seen at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg7fctr4_40dvjkdg64 . Not much is there beyond the rationale, usage sce 02 Nov 2008 16:05:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690646 i am using it postgresql as back-end and HTML as front-end,i want to display 10-10 records at a time which is there in the database using python.so wh 02 Nov 2008 06:40:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690613 I just tried to update my 3.0 branch in hg from http://code.python.org/hg/branches/py3k/ and hg is telling me it's a 404. Anyone else having trouble? 30 Oct 2008 20:55:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690271 AFAICS there are no buildbots for the release26-maint branch. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python- 30 Oct 2008 13:29:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690151 I have a fix for a modulefinder crash that I'm going to commit into the trunk. Since the bug is also in release26-maint I will also backport it. Whil 30 Oct 2008 12:54:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690148 Hi all, Here is a first step towards classifying the Python test suite into "real language tests" and "implementation details": http://bugs.pyth 30 Oct 2008 10:16:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690123 Hi to all Python developers For a student project in a course on virtual machines, we are evaluating the possibility to experiment with removing the 30 Oct 2008 09:13:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690098 I like to raise attention for a problem revealed by http://bugs.python.org/issue4237 --- The bug was caused by a design flaw -- which was partly my 30 Oct 2008 07:20:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690054 Hi, Since some months, I'm trying to improve Python but it's difficult because I'm not allowed to push patches and I have to wait for some reviews a 30 Oct 2008 03:08:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/690014 I m using fileDialog(self, message, path, filename, filter, aStyle(opotional)) to save the file. In my code, i used fileDialog to show save dialog bo 29 Oct 2008 23:35:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689984 Or have I been removed from the list? I'm not getting any mail it seems. Or at least very little. Or are we all just tired of trying to fix the releas 28 Oct 2008 15:56:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689732 glyph@divmod.com wrote: > On 07:24 pm, brett@python.org wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Brett 27 Oct 2008 13:30:41 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689526 Python's configure.in contains this check: # disable check for icc since it seems to pass, but generates a warning if test "$CC" = icc th 27 Oct 2008 13:22:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689521 On 07:24 pm, brett@python.org wrote: >On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> >wrote: >>Brett Cannon wrote: >Good enough 27 Oct 2008 12:31:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689519 I just discovered frozen packages set their __path__ simply to their name and not to a list as expected (http://bugs.python.org/issue4211). This made 26 Oct 2008 20:13:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/689414 In version of Python prior to 2.5, it would appear that deepcopying compiled regular expressions worked by accident: 2.4: >>> copy.deepcopy(re.c 22 Oct 2008 19:24:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/688691 Hello there. I was surprised to find recently that the heapq module is still a pure python implementation. A few years ago we wrote our own in C for u 22 Oct 2008 06:49:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/688511 Hi, I implemented a variant of the CPython VM on top of Gforth's Vmgen; this made it fairly straightforward to add direct threaded code and superinst 22 Oct 2008 05:16:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/688480 (Continuing thread started at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/csv/2008-October/000688.html) On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 16:46, Andrew McNamara <andrewm@o 19 Oct 2008 22:06:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/687937 I've installed the new Python 2.6 for windows (Windows-installer) on several machines among them a new one which has never seen Python before and all 17 Oct 2008 15:18:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/687615 Hi Skip, I had been approached to do the exact same thing, are you trying to back port the trunk version (2.6) or py3000? On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12 16 Oct 2008 09:34:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/687214 I'd like to try backporting the multiprocessing module to Python 2.4. My first problem appears to be the reliance on a complete(?) rewrite of the buf 16 Oct 2008 09:01:08 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/687216 Frédéric wrote: > In several places, instead of having my application name, I get '-c'. This could be a result of the app having got launched via ' 14 Oct 2008 16:15:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686874 In http://bugs.python.org/issue4120, the author suggests that it might be possible to completely stop using the manifest mechanism, for VS 2008. Given 14 Oct 2008 11:35:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686778 The ``compiler.ast`` module makes parsing Python source-code and AST manipulation relatively painless and it's straight-forward to implement a trans 13 Oct 2008 12:15:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686527 Over in PyConLand, there has been talk about trying to set up a language summit the day before PyCon starts (the second day of tutorials). The idea is 13 Oct 2008 11:12:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686526 im a novice python programmer. i have made two changes to robotparser.py. i apologize if this is the wrong list to post this mail. 1. some sites /* s 12 Oct 2008 05:52:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686349 In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082994.html Martin v. Löwis wrote: > So 2.6.0 will contain a lot of tests that have never 10 Oct 2008 09:11:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686088 Nick Coghlan's explanation of what justifies a syntax change (most of message http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082831.html ) s 10 Oct 2008 08:51:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/686086 still working on spam filter... Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python 09 Oct 2008 20:10:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685985 (messing with the python.org spam filter - please ignore) Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt 09 Oct 2008 20:06:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685979 > It seems to me that Skip was asking whether the "memory leak" impacted > the 2.6 branch, and the answer should have been "No": the change that > int 09 Oct 2008 16:12:47 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685934 Background ---------- In the itertools module docs, I included pure python equivalents for each of the C functions. Necessarily, some of those equiv 09 Oct 2008 16:12:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685933 [switching to python-dev] Georg Brandl wrote: > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>>> Merges should be handled by the original co 09 Oct 2008 14:08:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685902 Tarek Zidae' is organizing a sprint on general distutils/setuptools/packaging this weekend. Physically it's in Arlington VA, but participants will be 09 Oct 2008 13:24:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685901 Hi! Is it only me or does it fail for other people, too? I'm getting | Server sent unexpected return value (503 Service | Unavailable) in response t 09 Oct 2008 01:50:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685701 Hello there. I've just noticed what I consider a performance problem: Using new style classes to provide attribute-like access using __getattr__ is co 08 Oct 2008 12:27:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685583 Is it intended that python30.dll and python26.dll are not longer installed in the \windows\system32 directory? This (pythonxy.dll not on $PATH) cause 08 Oct 2008 11:16:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685544 The issue came up while trying to get some Sympy code running on CLPython. class C: exec "a = 3" print locals() 1. Is it guaranteed that class C g 08 Oct 2008 10:53:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685543 I am working on getting Zope to run (or at least, start) with Python 2.6. It actually starts right now after applying some patches, which is amazing o 08 Oct 2008 10:15:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685513 I've begun the task of assessing the 2.6 commits, but the job is unexpectedly large. What I did: * Took the output of 'svn log -r60999:66717'. (2.5 07 Oct 2008 17:44:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685401 > First of all, please read my document: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3UnicodeDecodeError I have problems understanding that document. Is it s 07 Oct 2008 13:06:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685316 Within a few weeks, we will release Python 2.5.3. This will be the last bug fix release of Python 2.5, afterwards, future releases of 2.5 will only in 07 Oct 2008 00:27:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685098 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So, we need to come up with a new release schedule for Python 3.0. My suggestion: 15-Oct-2008 3.0 b 06 Oct 2008 17:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/685021 Should we plan to put out a final 2.5 release? If so, should we continue to backport fixes (like Martin's removal of Alpha in setup.py)? My preferen 06 Oct 2008 10:58:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684917 Saw this on python-list. I suspect it's a known issue, but just in case, I thought I'd pass it along. Skip 06 Oct 2008 03:47:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684819 This does make it look rather as though bytes == str was a decision whose consequences weren't fully appreciated before implementation. Was this horr 05 Oct 2008 23:43:45 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684797 I have a version of PyCXX ported to python 3.0 rc1 and its passing its tests. I'm porting pysvn to python 3.0 rc1 and hit an odd problem. Given thi 05 Oct 2008 11:18:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684719 Hi, I posted a bug ticket on bugs.python.org, specifically #3119. Link: http://bugs.python.org/issue3119 The original issue is that the default Pickl 04 Oct 2008 03:47:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684519 Barry Warsaw schrieb: > On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > >> So now that we've released 2.6 and are working hard on shepherding 04 Oct 2008 00:45:27 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684498 Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes: > > Beats me. Are that many projects crazy enough to have that many active > branches? Any project usin 03 Oct 2008 17:18:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684449 On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:14:43AM +0200, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > Do other subscribed people receive these commit messages? > Is there a problem 03 Oct 2008 17:17:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684448 I've noticed an error that comes up from time to time in python 3.0 buildbots. The error is always similar to this one: Traceback (most recent call l 03 Oct 2008 15:56:27 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684413 Hello, I consult very regularly (100x a day) the python-checkins and python-300-checkins mailing list archives: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyth 03 Oct 2008 15:14:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684411 So now that we've released 2.6 and are working hard on shepherding 3.0 out the door, it's time to worry about the next set of releases. :) I propose 03 Oct 2008 14:26:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684409 Hi. First post so here it goes. My name is Adde, and I'm a Swedish software developer. I've been programming for about 23 years now since starting w 03 Oct 2008 03:10:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684267 What should the policy on 2to3 bug fixes be for the maintenance branch? I'm asking because I remember vaguely someone suggesting that new 2to3 fixers 02 Oct 2008 15:13:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684133 Just now, Christian decided for option 2... Georg > This is another thing that needs to be discussed: how to handle backports > between 2.6 and 2.7. 02 Oct 2008 12:16:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684024 http://drj11.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/python-and-bragging-about-c89/ mentions that Objects/frameobject.c contains a C99-style comment, which means t 02 Oct 2008 10:50:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/684021