Re: [Python-Dev] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

2007-05-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 5/24/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Last call for discussion! I'm tempted to reject this -- the ability to > > generate optimized code based on the shortcut semantics of and/or is > > pretty important to me. > > Please don't be hasty. I've had to think

Re: [Python-Dev] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

2007-05-24 Thread Greg Ewing
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Last call for discussion! I'm tempted to reject this -- the ability to > generate optimized code based on the shortcut semantics of and/or is > pretty important to me. Please don't be hasty. I've had to think about this issue a bit. The conclusion I've come to is that t

Re: [Python-Dev] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

2007-05-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 5/18/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While reviewing PEPs, I stumbled over PEP 335 ( Overloadable Boolean > Operators) by Greg Ewing. I am of two minds of this -- on the one > hand, it's been a long time without any working code or anything. OTOH > it might be quite useful to e

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded [PEP?]

2007-05-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Michael Foord schrieb: > This subject is generating a lot of discussion and [almost entirely] > positive feedback. It would be a great shame to run out of steam. > > Does it need a PEP to see a chance of it getting accepted as the formal > documentation system? (or a pronouncement that it will n

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded [PEP?]

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Foord
This subject is generating a lot of discussion and [almost entirely] positive feedback. It would be a great shame to run out of steam. Does it need a PEP to see a chance of it getting accepted as the formal documentation system? (or a pronouncement that it will never happen...) Michael Foord

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Georg Brandl
Ron Adam schrieb: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:46:50PM -0500, Ron Adam wrote: > >> Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > >>> So I'll be able to read the main docs for a module in a terminal > >>> without reaching for the web browser (or info)? That would be great! > >>> > >>> H

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Adam
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:46:50PM -0500, Ron Adam wrote: >> Nick Craig-Wood wrote: >>> So I'll be able to read the main docs for a module in a terminal >>> without reaching for the web browser (or info)? That would be great! >>> >>> How would pydoc decide which bit

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Georg Brandl
Talin schrieb: > Martin Blais wrote: >> On 5/22/07, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> ReST works well only when there is little markup. Writing code >>> documentation generally requires a lot of markup, you want to make >>> variables, classes, functions, parameters, constants, etc.. (A

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Georg Brandl
Nick Craig-Wood schrieb: >> > It is missing conversion of ``comment'' at the moment as I'm sure you >> > know... >> >> Sorry, what did you mean? > > ``comment'' produces smart quotes in latex if I remember correctly. > You probably want to convert it somehow because it looks a bit odd on > the

Re: [Python-Dev] Adventures with x64, VS7 and VS8 on Windows

2007-05-24 Thread Kristján Valur Jónsson
> -Original Message- > though, not cygwin (a la bsmedberg's new MozillaBuild stuff). I just > wish there were an autoconf alternative that wasn't as painful as > autoconf. I have a few attempts for my purposes that are written in > Python (an obvious bootstrapping problem for building Py

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:46:50PM -0500, Ron Adam wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > >So I'll be able to read the main docs for a module in a terminal > >without reaching for the web browser (or info)? That would be great! > > > >How would pydoc decide which bit of docs it is going to show? > > P

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:39:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nick> If you type "pydoc re" at the moment then it says in it > > Nick> MODULE DOCS > Nick> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html > > Nick> which is pretty much useless to me when ssh-ed in

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-24 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 5/24/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talin wrote: > > As in the > > above example, the use of backticks can be signal to the document > > processor that the enclosed text should be examined for identifiers and > > other Python syntax. > > Does this mean it's time for "pyST" -- Python