Re: [Python-Dev] Request for developer privileges.

2006-12-21 Thread Georg Brandl
Neal Norwitz schrieb: > Hi Lars. > > Thanks for all your work on tarfile! > > Please send your ssh2 key to pydotorg at python.org as an attachment. > One of us will add your key. Hopefully I can remember how to do it. > Here's some other info: http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#subversion-svn > >

Re: [Python-Dev] classes and cell variables question

2006-12-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
tomer filiba wrote: > to my understanding of the object model, the code of snippet 1 > and snippet 2 should be equivalent. a class is just a "special function" > that returns its locals automatically and passes them to the metaclass > constructor: PEP 227 (Statically Nested Scopes) covers this in

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r53110 - python/trunk/Lib/mailbox.py

2006-12-21 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:14:55AM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I (only vaguely) recall Guido telling people that that's how it's documented, > and that's what they should use. Don't know if he still feels that way; if > he's recanted the obscure path, we can fix both the calls and the > d

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r53110 - python/trunk/Lib/mailbox.py

2006-12-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
A.M. Kuchling schrieb: > The constants were added in 2.5. I've gone ahead and made the > documentation change to trunk and 25-maint, because why were the > constants added if they weren't intended to be used? See #711830. They were added for compatibility (with earlier Python releases) primarily.

[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary

2006-12-21 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Patch / Bug Summary ___ Patches : 420 open ( +6) / 3510 closed (+12) / 3930 total (+18) Bugs: 944 open ( -5) / 6391 closed (+15) / 7335 total (+10) RFE : 249 open ( +2) / 245 closed ( +0) / 494 total ( +2) New / Reopened Patches __ cp720 enc