Re: [Python-3000] XML as bytes or unicode?

2008-08-25 Thread Guido van Rossum
2008/8/24 "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Parsing Unicode XML strings isn't quite that meaningful. Maybe not according to the XML standard, but I can see lots of practical situations where the encoding is always known and applied by some other layer, i.e. the I/O library or a database wra

Re: [Python-3000] Windows Installer - default install directory

2008-08-25 Thread Terry Reedy
PL wrote: Hi I'm new to the list. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I didn't notice it. Is it possible for the Windows installer to install to some other directory than the root (i.e., somewhere else apart from C:\Python25 as 2.5 does). That is the default. You are free to put

Re: [Python-3000] what version of bsddb to use/accept for 2.6/3.0

2008-08-25 Thread Matthias Klose
[CCing Clint] 4.7.25 generally looks fine, except for sparc (afaics); I asked the Debian bsddb maintainer to have a look at the sparc problems. At least on sparc, there's no difference between 4.6 and 4.7. I usually try to run the buildbots with the recent software in the distribution, as this is

Re: [Python-3000] Still get rid of the stat module?

2008-08-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brett Cannon wrote: So my question is whether it is still worth trying to remove the module, or just leave it be.

[Python-3000] Windows Installer - default install directory

2008-08-25 Thread PL
Hi I'm new to the list. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I didn't notice it. Is it possible for the Windows installer to install to some other directory than the root (i.e., somewhere else apart from C:\Python25 as 2.5 does). It goes against some Windows conventions to put it there