[Python-3000] inst_persistent_id

2008-01-12 Thread Jim Fulton
Recently, I reviewed the documentation source for pickle and came across the following comment: BAW: Both pickle and cPickle support something called inst_persistent_id() which appears to give unknown types a second shot at producing a persistent id. Since Jim Fulton can't reme

Re: [Python-3000] inst_persistent_id

2008-01-12 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
On Jan 12, 2008 12:25 PM, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there are no objections, I'll update the Python 2 documentation to > describe this and add a test. The comment above suggests that this > hook is in pickle and cPickle. It is in cPickle, but was removed from > pickle. I propose

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Rounding Decimals

2008-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Yasskin
During the discussion about the new Rational implementation (http://bugs.python.org/issue1682), Guido and Raymond decided that Decimal should not implement the new Real ABC from PEP 3141. So I've closed http://bugs.python.org/issue1623 and won't be pursuing any of the extra rounding methods mention

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Rounding Decimals

2008-01-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Jan 12, 2008 5:09 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the discussion about the new Rational implementation > (http://bugs.python.org/issue1682), Guido and Raymond decided that > Decimal should not implement the new Real ABC from PEP 3141. So I've > closed http://bugs.python.o

[Python-3000] OSCON 2008 Call for Proposals

2008-01-12 Thread Aahz
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is accepting proposals for tutorials and presentations. The submission period ends Feb 4. OSCON 2008 will be in Portland, Oregon July 21-25. For more information and to submit a proposal, see http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROT