[Python-3000] Optional type checking for Python

2006-10-22 Thread Neil Dunn
Dear All, (I'm forwarding this from the main pydev mailing list) I'm a Master's student at Imperial College London currently selecting a Master's thesis subject. I am exploring the possibility of "optional typing" and "pluggable type systems" (Bracha) for Python. Reading around I see that the clo

Re: [Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

2006-10-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Greg Ewing schrieb: >> Given that it is *generated* code, I find that very >> reasonable. Just fix the generator once, and the >> warnings will go away. > > I don't accept that the code generator needs to be > "fixed", because I don't regard it as broken. The > code it generates is perfectly corre

Re: [Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

2006-10-22 Thread Greg Ewing
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > If that is so, just ignore the warnings. Not acceptable, because it means I have to examine all the warnings every time I compile to check that another one hasn't appeared that represents a real problem. > one way to solve the problem is to make the warnings > go away.

Re: [Python-3000] Proposal: No more standard library additions

2006-10-22 Thread Talin
Greg Ewing wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > I agree that Make itself doesn't handle install-type > operations very well. I think that's partly because > it's too rigidly fixated on a target being a single > file. This isn't related to Py3K, except that it would solve a lot of problems in Pyth