Re: [Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2005-12-16 through 2005-12-31

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Heller
Tony Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Adding zlib module to python25.dll -- Thomas Heller and Martin Heller had been discussing whether the zlib Should be 'Martin v. Löwis', as we all know. module should become builtin, at

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Brett Cannon wrote: Hmm. It's an idea. I also thought of Python - JavaScript compiler since JavaScript is not fun and getting to test using Python might be cool. But not sure how useful that would be. Plus I bet someone has does this with Java or something. There's a Python project that

Re: [Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2005-12-01 through 2005-12-15

2006-01-13 Thread Tony Meyer
Opps. I just sent out the draft summary for the first half of December (which might only make it to the list after this one, since it's very long) but forgot to say anything at the top. No-doubt everyone knows the pitch by now, but if anyone is able to take a look at the summary (or parts of it)

Re: [Python-Dev] pystate.c changes for Python 2.4.2

2006-01-13 Thread Michael Hudson
Gabriel Becedillas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, At the company I work for, we've embedded Python in C++ application we develop. Since our upgrade to Python 2.4.2 from 2.4.1 we started hitting Py_FatalError(Invalid thread state for this thread) when using debug builds. We use both

Re: [Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

2006-01-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Scott David Daniels wrote: OK I carried the code I offered earlier in this whole thread (tweaked in reaction to some comments) over to comp.lang.python, gathered some feedback, and put up a recipe on the cookbook. After a week or so for more comment, I'll be happy to submit a patch to include

Re: [Python-Dev] [PATCH] Fix dictionary subclass semantics whenused as global dictionaries

2006-01-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Crutcher Dunnavant wrote: I sorta disagree about it not being broken. Adding a feature which works for eval but not for exec seems pretty broken. You seem to have a different notion of to be broken, then. Python is broken, if and only if - the interpreter crashes, for any Python input - the

Re: [Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2005-12-16 through2005-12-31

2006-01-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Tony Meyer wrote: Fredrik Lundh kicked off a surprisingly long thread when he proposed that typing quit or exit in the interactive prompt actually exit (i.e. raises SystemError) SystemExit def exit(): ... print bye # what is it? exit $ oops! (However, one

Re: [Python-Dev] r42015 - peps/trunk

2006-01-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
David Goodger wrote: On 1/12/06, M.-A. Lemburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, but I wouldn't expect SVN to query other servers than svn.python.org inside the standard repository directories. AFAIK, this is a first in the Python repository. True, and worth discussing. Luckily the PEPs

Re: [Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

2006-01-13 Thread Scott David Daniels
OK I carried the code I offered earlier in this whole thread (tweaked in reaction to some comments) over to comp.lang.python, gathered some feedback, and put up a recipe on the cookbook. After a week or so for more comment, I'll be happy to submit a patch to include the broken_test decorator

Re: [Python-Dev] Py_ssize_t output parameters (Was: [Python-checkins] r41971 ...)

2006-01-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Löwis wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: What if x64 has a 64-bit value ? How do you catch and process the truncation error ? We were *both* discussing a scenario where no sizes exceed 2**31, right? Right, but I don't see the point of each and every extension having to go through these

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/12/06, Dennis Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett, Where are you doing your Phd and who will be your likely supervisor? It does make a difference. University of British Columbia under Eric Wohlstadter in the Software Practices Lab. Your dissertation idea list seems to me to focus

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Holden
Barry Warsaw wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:01 +0100, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: Recently, someone on dclpy posted about an error he got when he tried to unpack the Python distribution tarball with Sparc Solaris 9's tar: tar: directory checksum error With GNU tar, it worked correctly. Is

Re: [Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type

2006-01-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Sure. However, most users will compile it on 32-bit systems. If they find they cannot get it to work on a 64-bit system, they should ask the author for help, or just use it in 32-bit mode (as 64-bit mode won't gain them anything, anyway). I wonder how you are going to

[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-01-13 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 384 open ( +2) / 3016 closed (+13) / 3400 total (+15) Bugs: 909 open ( +6) / 5500 closed (+21) / 6409 total (+27) RFE : 208 open ( +5) / 196 closed ( +1) / 404 total ( +6) New / Reopened Patches __ add

Re: [Python-Dev] Py_ssize_t output parameters (Was: [Python-checkins] r41971 ...)

2006-01-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Right, but I don't see the point of each and every extension having to go through these hoops when you could add support for these checks (including error reporting) to the few APIs in question, in particular the PyArg_ParseTuple() API. I don't want to rename the

Re: [Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

2006-01-13 Thread Scott David Daniels
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288 my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time. the usual term for this is expected

Re: [Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

2006-01-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Scott David Daniels wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288 my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time. the usual

Re: [Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

2006-01-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
Scott David Daniels wrote: Would expect_fail, expect_failure, expected_fail, or expected_failure, work for you? None of these use the same naming convention as the other unittest object attributes. Perhaps something like failureExpected? I'd definately prefer something that reads cleanly;