[Bug 902544] Re: the touchpad mouse doesn't work after a few minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Steve Holden
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/902544 Title: the touchpad mouse doesn't work after a few minutes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 902544] [NEW] the touchpad mouse doesn't work after a few minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Steve Holden
Public bug reported: Following upgrade 11.04 to 11.10, with system that was working fine, touchpad stopped working. External mouse works fine. xinput list includes the touchpad: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer

[Python-Dev] Python Best Again

2011-12-07 Thread Steve Holden
national Python community. Please pass this on to other members of your developer community who may not receive this message directly. Seriously, thanks. Having quality releases of a great language really does make it easier to promote Python! regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.c

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2011-12-03 Thread Steve Holden
time: 419 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Sat Dec 3 16:30:12 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 283 On Nov 26, 2011, at 1:52 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Steve Holden : > >> Still happening. But when you read the error message that's not >> surprising, because it seem

[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Holden
t; [67.170.153.110]) >by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a2sm60029965igj.7.2011.11.25.13.16.40 >(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); >Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:16:41 -0800 (PST) > Subject: Re: [pydotorg-www] China PyCon > Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework

Re: [pydotorg-www] China PyCon

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Holden
t's bizarre. What with Stefan's e-mail also failing, I think teh > Intertubes is haz bad hair day. Anyway, posted -- lemme know if you want > anything different. > > BTW, the link to cn.pycon.org is precisely what I was missing earlier. > -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.co

[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Holden
: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) > Subject: Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Can you give a speech video for > PyConChina2011? > From: Steve Holden > In-Reply-To: <2025154106.gd7...@panix.com> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:4

[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Can you give a speech video for PyConChina2011?

2011-11-24 Thread Steve Holden
in China link to the pycon.org website. > > -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@p

[issue2801] Py30a5 float.is_integer() raises ValueError

2011-11-04 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden added the comment: ValueError: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable') looks to me like a Cygwin error relating to Windows' DLLs and the difficulty of mapping them to unique memory locations. I very much doubt it's a real issue with Python, so closing the

Bumper DjangoCon this year

2011-08-23 Thread Steve Holden
DjangCon so magnificently. For those of you who are going, I look forward to seeing you there. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Community Involvement

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Holden
Haven't had much Cc input so far, but this one is definitely worth following up on. Thanks! regards Steve On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> [Ccs appreciated] >> After some three years labor I (@holdenweb)

Community Involvement

2011-08-03 Thread Steve Holden
dth student would be abused and the thousandth murdered). So I wondered if anyone had any good ideas. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue12580] Documentation error in Decimal module

2011-07-17 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden added the comment: Sorry about that. I was using 3.1, as you will have gathered. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue12580] Documentation error in Decimal module

2011-07-17 Thread Steve Holden
Changes by Steve Holden : -- components: +Documentation ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue12580> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue12580] Documentation error in Decimal module

2011-07-17 Thread Steve Holden
New submission from Steve Holden : We see in the "Quick-Start Tutorial" (py3k section 8.4.1) the following example: >>> Decimal(3.14) Decimal('3.140124344978758017532527446746826171875') In actua; fact one would expect an exception from that code, which

Re: [Python-authors] Short introduction

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Holden
ow-defunct Python Magazine, and other purposes. > That never really panned out very well, though, and I don't remember the last > time someone posted here. Ah, well. > > Doug > > ___ > Python-authors mailing list > Python-

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Board] contrib agreement

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
You meant "grubert", of course. It amuses my non-computer friends that people often greet me as "holdenweb" at PyCon and similar places. regards Steve On Jun 29, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Pat Campbell wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, Engelbert. -- Steve Hol

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Board] contrib agreement

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
>> Nick. >>> >>> -- >>> Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >> >> >> >> -- >> Pat Campbell >> PSF Administrator/Secretary >> pat...@python.org >> > > > > -- > http://darefoot.blogspot.com >

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Board] contrib agreement

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
.@python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pat Campbell >>> PSF Administrator/Secretary >>> pat...@python.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Pat Campbell >> PSF Admin

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Board] contrib agreement

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holden
;>> >>> -- >>> Pat Campbell >>> PSF Administrator/Secretary >>> pat...@python.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Pat Campbell >> PSF Administrator/Secretary >> pat...@python.org >> >> ___ >> python-committers mailing list >> python-committers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers >> >> > ___ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: Possible interest in a webcast/presentation about Django site with 40mil+ rows of data??

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Holden
googlegroups.com . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/django-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en> > . > > -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb

[portland] Short-notice Birthday Party

2011-06-20 Thread Steve Holden
sibly later, but no commitment to that on a school night). I hope to see you there. Sorry about the short notice! regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/

[pydotorg-www] http://www.python.org/community/jobs//howto/ again

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Holden
Also, please change "US organizations may be able to claim" to "US organizations and individuals may be able to claim" regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org ht

[pydotorg-www] http://www.python.org/community/jobs//howto/

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Holden
ice to them as well as to Python users. regards Steve PS: I presume we still have a lot of 301 redirects active from the "Great Reorganization". Is anyone by chance tracking how often they are being hit now, and any referrer information for those hits? -

Re: [python-committers] state of the 3.2 branch

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Holden
> > See af715726d911 It looks like Georg has been merging the 3.2.1 > release branch to the 3.2 branch and people are blindly adding to the > news section. That stuff should probably just be relocated. > > > -- > Regards, > Benjamin > __________

DjangoCon US 2011: Call for Tutorial Proposals

2011-06-02 Thread Steve Holden
been deployed please send your proposals to steve at holdenweb dot com. I will also be happy to receive suggestions from non-authors about the topics people would like to see offered, either in reply to this email or to the address above. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800

Re: [python-committers] Python 2.6.7rc1

2011-05-06 Thread Steve Holden
s basically a self-imposed > deadline. > > Cheers, > -Barry > > ___ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers -- Steve Holden st...@holdenwe

Re: [pydotorg-www] DNS additions for translation blogs

2011-05-05 Thread Steve Holden
, if someone would point me in the > right direction. > > Doug > > ___ > pydotorg-www mailing list > pydotorg-www@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com __

Re: django 1.1 performance versus django 1.2 performance

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Holden
nce you can provide (profile > runs, sample queries that are observably slower, and so on), the > easier it will be to address these problems. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I propose that the redirector (hg.../lookup) redirects to the subversion > viewer if it can't find a matching hg revision. That sounds like an extremely user-friendly solution. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@ho

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:29 -0400, Steve Holden a écrit : >> >> Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg >> issue? > > As far as I understand it, this is not so much an hg issue than a

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
. Having to dig in VCS logs, or read many tracker > entries, is IMO too tedious. > Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg issue? I had understood that *all* history was going to be retained. Did I misremember or was I incorrectly advised? regards Steve --

Re: [pydotorg-www] [Pydotorg] Python.org front page

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Holden
k it out and take a look once it's done - let me know. I think having real code (maybe with a link to an annotated explanation, if the feature proves popular) on the home page would be an amazing draw. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st

Re: [Catalog-sig] Please turn off ratings

2011-04-11 Thread Steve Holden
a browser. Thanks. PS: I do not frequent the list, so am asking Martin to forward this message if it doesn't make it through. -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com ___ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig

Re: [python-committers] Committer rights for Nadeem Vawda

2011-04-03 Thread Steve Holden
ain a signed contributor agreement from Nadeem, but it's beginning to sound like that's the next step. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: DjangoCon US 2011

2011-03-31 Thread Steve Holden
I have already started nagging people about this. It's only just over five months to go, and it's definitely time the CfP went out. Expect to see movement in the next two weeks. Regards Steve On Mar 31, 2011 6:19 PM, "Shawn Milochik" wrote: > It's a bit early, in the year, but I'd expect somethin

Re: [python-committers] There are two versions of the Contributor Agreement

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Holden
We should ask the pydotorg list to fix this. Should we at the same time requet the assition of a field for the committer's user name? regards Steve On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 3/23/2011 9:31 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Online Degree Reviews - PSF Sponsor Membership - Please Add

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Holden
Please note, if it makes a difference, that Online Degree Reviews currently a pending sponsor member. regards Steve On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote: > Hi Pydotorg: > > Could you please add Online Degree Reviews to the Sponsor web page: > > http://www.python.org/psf/ > >

Re: django-admin-py?

2011-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
Last I looked (though it's been a,while) the Django install dropped django-admin.pt somewhere on the executable path. How did you install Django? Regards Steve On Mar 17, 2011 5:05 PM, "gh" wrote: > Hi > > I´m new to django and maybe this is a simple thing but I need some > advise what's wrong. >

Re: [python-committers] Recording committer status in the bug tracker

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Holden
Yes, I can. Thanks, Pat regards Steve On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Pat Campbell wrote: > Hi Steve: > > Are you able to read the attached spreadsheet? > Thanks, > Pat > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > Pat: > > It appears that

Re: [python-committers] Recording committer status in the bug tracker

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Holden
Pat: It appears that our contributor agreement records are not complete. Do you have a list of people for whom we hold a signed agreement, please? regards Steve On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 16, 2011, at 06:14 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > >> Time

Re: [python-committers] Recording committer status in the bug tracker

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:11 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> I'm not showing as a committer (also not showing as CLA received, but I >> suppose that's different). > > I couldn't find you at first since you didn't put your last name into the > tracker. I have fixed that as well now. > > As for th

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] [Fwd: Re: Push rights for Ross Lagerwall]

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 10, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 11:25 -0500, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : So the next logical step would be to ask him. If Ross said that he did send the form, that would be good enough for me to proceed. That would also be a *solution*.

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] [Fwd: Re: Push rights for Ross Lagerwall]

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > We don't need an explanation, we need a *solution*. > > Please speak for yourself only. Is it just you being upset to > have to use paper, or is Ross Lagerwall actively refusing to > put his signature on a piece of paper? > Because Antoine

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] [Fwd: Re: Push rights for Ross Lagerwall]

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:18 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > contributor-agreem...@python.org could be aliased to > p...@python.org, p...@python.org, or even better, a > PSF committee taking care of this business. Lest this strike fear into the hearts of members I would point out that it would operate mu

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] [Fwd: Re: Push rights for Ross Lagerwall]

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I don't care and don't want to argue (I insist about this) about > religions, be it christianism or intellectual property. > If you think a legal rule is needed, please just *ensure it doesn't get > in the way*. That's your job as a self-proclaim

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] [Fwd: Re: Push rights for Ross Lagerwall]

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Holden
> Otherwise, the PSF does not have the right to redistribute that >> code under the PSF license. >> >> http://docs.python.org/devguide/coredev.html#sign-a-contributor-agreement >> >>> Message transféré >>> De: Pat Campbell >>>

Re: [python-committers] Push rights for Ross Lagerwall

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Holden
Pat should know if we have received one. regards Steve On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mardi 08 mars 2011 à 00:57 -0800, Raymond Hettinger a écrit : > >> >> Do we have a signed contributor agreement? > > I've told Ross it would be nice to send one if he hadn't already

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 6, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>> Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 13:19 -0500, Steve Holden a écrit : >>>> In short, if someone isn't able to sign a contributor agreement we >>>> should ask ourselves whether it's really appropriat

Re: [python-committers] Use hg commit --user?

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
People who have not signed a contributor agreement should not be listed as code authors: this leads to non-auditable contributions and a lack of clarity as to intellectual property ownership that can have negative consequences. If you want to make someone an author, confirm they are contributors

Re: [python-committers] SVN repository is now read-only

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Holden
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > >> Antoine and me are starting the conversion now (it takes quite >> a while to get the SVN repo and convert it, so we're doing it >> overnight). > > > Thanks for stepping up and getting

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: deep question re dict as formatting input

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Ah, how (much more) confused would we be if we didn't have the PEPs > and mailing list archives to remind ourselves of what we were thinking > years ago... > True. And how much more useful it would be if it were incorporated into the documentati

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: deep question re dict as formatting input

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Holden
then it is treated as a number, otherwise > it is used as a string. > That's not strictly true: >>> d = {"Steve":"Holden", "Guido":"van Rossum", 21.2:"float"} >>> d[21.1] Traceback (most recent call last): File "&qu

[Python-Dev] Fwd: deep question re dict as formatting input

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Holden
intended to be used as subscripts. Does this seem sensible? Was it considered during design? Should I alter the materials so that only integer subscripts are used? regards Steve Begin forwarded message: > From: kirby urner > Date: February 22, 2011 2:31:08 PM PST > To: Steve Holden

Re: [pydotorg-www] Upgrades completed

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: > Thanks to the sysadmins for their work. > > Regards +1 regards Steve ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Leaving pydotorg

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Holden
Just in case a misimpression has arisen that may require correction, it's just /the pydotorg list/ I will be leaving. PSF members have already seen my name as a candidate for the next Board, so I remain active in the Foundation. regards Steve On Feb 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, George Belotsky wrote

[pydotorg-www] Leaving pydotorg

2011-02-11 Thread Steve Holden
Ladies and gentlemen: This note marks a turning point in my (unpaid) career with the PSF. I have been a subscriber to this list and its predecessor for many years, and in many ways regard it as the engine room of the Foundation. The web is our primary communications channel with the outside wor

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

2011-02-04 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> Look at issue 11089. It is applied in 2.7 and 3.1, but it can't be >> applied to 3.2 because we are in RC state now. Now, somebody *MUST* >> remember to apply this patch when the 3.2 branch in open again. That is >> a waste of mental energy

Re: [python-committers] Create a Mercurial repository with a branch per issue

2011-02-04 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > I think extra clones per issue could work for some larger issues that > require lots of work, but I don't think the > every-small-feature-on-a-branch model (as practiced in Twisted, IIRC) > is particularly helpful. On the other hand, I do think

Re: django advent for 1.3

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Holden
:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Feb 03, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> I suspect this problem with the preferred DVCS workflow is going to >>> cut fairly heavily into the number of bug fixes applied to th

Re: [python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Holden
On Feb 2, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mercredi 02 février 2011 à 19:39 +0100, Jesus Cea a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/02/11 19:28, Antoine Pitrou wrote: The merge here is mostly automatic. In fact, if the RM doesn't change hi

[python-committers] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Holden
I imagine many of you will have seen this, but it's worth over-posting to make sure everyone gets to see it who is interested. http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/ regards Steve ___ python-committers mailing list python

Re: [python-committers] rc2 freeze due in two days

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Holden
On Jan 29, 2011, at 12:04 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > If the module weren't already broken for most real-world purposes I'd > no question want to wait. As it is I'm on the fence. Me too, but I did want to acknowledge the correctness of Antoine's argument. Yes, I reminded people (using multipr

Re: [python-committers] rc2 freeze due in two days

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Holden
Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le vendredi 28 janvier 2011 à 14:51 -0800, Raymond Hettinger a écrit : >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >> >>> As teh reporter of that bug I should like to say in Victor's, Antoine's and >>> David&#

Re: [python-committers] rc2 freeze due in two days

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Holden
As teh reporter of that bug I should like to say in Victor's, Antoine's and David's support that the module is so broken without this patch that the module should not really have been included in a production release. Even if the current patch is broken, I believe the results of using that code

Re: [pydotorg-www] Asian Characters On Sidebar On Frontpage

2011-01-27 Thread Steve Holden
On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Carl Trachte wrote: > There are some Asian characters on the left sidebar on the frontpage > of www.python.org. Was this by design? > > Carl T. Yes. Chinese users have been having difficulty downloading. The text means "download", and the URL is different from the

Re: [pydotorg-www] Request for commit access RE: download/windows page

2011-01-24 Thread Steve Holden
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > Michael Foord reached out to Tim Golden and myself to work on and maintain > the currently outdated http://www.python.org/download/windows/ page, and I'd > like to help. > I'm not surprised, that page is a disgrace. So, first of all, reassura

Re: [python-committers] anyone still have access to the coverity scan results?

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Holden
Could we consider offering a complimentary PyCon registration to a member of the Coverity team as an encouragement to have someone around during the sprints? I am sure that much useful informal education would take place, benefiting many sprints, if we enable it and just let things happen. Or w

Re: [pydotorg-www] Disabling advocacy.python.org

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Andrew Kuchling hosts the official Python podcast/videos recordings >> (/data/www/advocacy/podcasts/) through the advocacy.python.org domain >> (http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/ ). If you remove its DNS entry, >> all those links are bro

Re: [pydotorg-www] Disabling advocacy.python.org

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
This material should be moved to some other hosting more in line with our other istes. Otherwise it qon't be maintained, and will be lost in due course. regards Steve On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/01/2011 05:59, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> advocacy.python.org is un

Re: How to pop the interpreter's stack?

2010-12-26 Thread Steve Holden
it. I've been > crashing against one bit of cleverness after another in Python's > unification of types and classes... Well if you can find a way to implement a class system that doesn't use clever tricks *in its implementation* please let me know. regards Steve -- Steve Hol

Re: What is the the best style and theory of writing a complier in your language

2010-12-25 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/24/2010 2:21 AM, Juha Nieminen wrote: > In comp.lang.c++ small Pox wrote: >> http://... > > You should take your religion somewhere else. And you should learn that by re-posting their links you assist spammers. -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494

Re: What is the the best style and theory of writing a complier in your language

2010-12-25 Thread Steve Holden
> CHEERIOS > Sure you do. regareds Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file

2010-12-25 Thread Steve Holden
else are they to use? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: django/contrib/auth/models.py goes nuts

2010-12-23 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/23/2010 11:54 AM, John Fabiani wrote: > On Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:39:44 am bruno desthuilliers wrote: >> On 23 déc, 06:33, John Fabiani wrote: >> >> (snip) >> >> John, may I suggest that instead of trying whatever comes to mind and >> wonder what happens, you spend some times learnin

Re: Catching user switching and getting current active user from root on linux

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Holden
n help them. Squid is a different matter. For that, probably if you go on an IRC channel (freenode.net is what I use, but others have their favorites). Maybe #squid? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/

Re: issubclass(dict, Mapping)

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Holden
As Steven d'Aprano has already said, these *are* corner cases and not the whole of the language. Don't worry about having a complete knowledge of the language before you start to use it. That can induce paralysis ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 62

Re: Redundant importing of modules

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
There's a dict at sys.modules that has a key for each loaded module's name. When an attempt is made to import a module the first thing the interpreter does is to look at sys.modules. If it has the correct key in it then the assumption is that the module has already been imported, and its

Re: Class-override of a sort-key method?

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
ted due > to all the interactions with the existing comparison methods) special > method. > But the *real* point is (as the documentation attempts to point out) that by providing the key argument it gets called only once per element, whereas the cmp argument (or the objects' __cmp_

Re: Catching user switching and getting current active user from root on linux

2010-12-20 Thread Steve Holden
can be really useful as long as you know who to listen to and who to ignore ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/19/2010 3:48 PM, Maksymus007 wrote: > you get array of arrays. Technically, in strict Python terms what you get is a list of tuples. Each element of the list is a tuple where each column from the query provides an element of each tuple. > First array contains rows. Every row is just an arr

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin

2010-12-18 Thread Steve Holden
eve, but -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ ___ pydotorg-www mail

Re: If/then style question

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/17/2010 11:13 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > On 17/12/2010 15:53, Steve Holden wrote: > > [... snip example of for-else ...] > >> This construct appears to be unpopular in actual use, and when it comes >> up in classes and seminars there is always interesting debate as peo

Re: If/then style question

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Holden
d is probably not Guido's crowning language achievement, but then since the English keywords don't make natural sense to those who speak other languages it's at least fair that there should be one that isn't totally natural to English speakers. A small price to pay for all

Re: If/then style question

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Holden
ust >> don't need such guarantees in python. > > Even without the cleanup issue, sometimes you want to edit a function > to affect all return values somehow. If you have a single exit point > you just make the change there; if you have mulitple you have to hunt > the

Re: registering app level signal handlers

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/16/2010 6:28 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > Are you talking about UNIX process signals? > He's almost certainly talking about Django signals. I've never seen a definite recommendation as to how to do things exactly once early on in the life of your server process, so I am afraid I cannot off

Re: O'Reilly Python Certification

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Holden
on how to apply and >>> what are the prerequisites >> >> http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/python-programming.php >> >> No prerequisites that I could see, and currently they are running a 25% >> discount promotional. >> >> ~Ethan~ >>

Re: string identity and comparison

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Holden
ing content. > > id('foo') > 3082385472L > id('foo') > 3082385472L > > Anyone has that kind of code ? > > JM > >>> id("foo") 2146743808 >>> id ("f"+"o"+"o") 2146744096 >>> regards

Re: while True or while 1

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/16/2010 5:44 AM, BartC wrote: >> On 12/12/2010 2:32 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: >>> Am 12.12.2010 19:31, schrieb Steve Holden: >>> $ python -m timeit -n20 -- "i = 0" "while 1:" "i+=1" "if i == >>> 100: break"

Re: O'Reilly Python Certification

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/15/2010 4:21 PM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > Am 15.12.2010 22:11, schrieb Steve Holden: >> On 12/15/2010 3:40 PM, Tim Chase wrote: >>> On a more serious note, it would be interesting to know if it's possible >>> to test out of the certification for

Re: O'Reilly Python Certification

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
act me privately by email on a "no promises" basis. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holden

Re: O'Reilly Python Certification

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/15/2010 12:54 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > So I just got an e-mail from O'Reilly and their School of Technology > about a Python Certification course... anybody have any experience with > this? > > It also says Steve Holden is involved -- is this True? (Steve?) >

Re: while True or while 1

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
> That's wrong: > >>>> "to be" or not "to be" > 'to be' > > You need to wrap it with bool() at least (even without interpreting > Pythons answer to the duality contradiction of consciousness for > now ;-)) > >> but d

Re: Dealing with pywin32 on Linux

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
onality, I will > encounter problems. > Benedict: Have you considered running a virtual Windows machine to handle the specific issues that really require a Windows environment? If the loading isn't at brutal levels VirtualBox is a very adequate solution, and of course Python user VMWare

Re: Links and pointers to basics of soap and suds

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
d you mind teaching me to drive?". Google for phrases like "web services architecture" and "SOAP WSDL" to get some idea of how these technologies are put together. This assumes, of course, that you already possess a fair idea of how the web is put together. regards Steve -

Re: Proposed changes to logging defaults

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
nter the stdout-stdin pipelines carrying information between coordinating processes. If a current task is assuming the prior logging package's behavior and analysing a process's stdout for messages it arguably needs fixing anyway, though I agree that breakage of any kind is unfortunate. r

Re: Tkinter polling example: file copy with progress bar

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/14/2010 11:52 PM, JohnWShipman wrote: > you > know how us ancient Unix weenies are. Indeed we do ... ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video!

Re: default argument in method

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
e more accurate to say that if C.foo is rebound this does not change the binding of the val default value. "Change the value of foo" could be though to include "mutate a mutable value", but in that case both C.foo and the method's val parameter would still be bound to t

Re: while True or while 1

2010-12-12 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/12/2010 2:32 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 12.12.2010 19:31, schrieb Steve Holden: >> > Would you care to quantify how much CPU time that optimization will >> > typically save for a loop of fair magnitude (say, a billion iterations)? > The difference is minimal

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