Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 4195: Can't execute packages with -m inPython 2.6/3.0

2008-11-21 Thread Raymond Hettinger
In concur that it is not a regression (esp for Py2.6). OTOH, it would be nice to have -m run as expected. It seems reasonable to me to get this working for 3.0. Raymond - Original Message - From: "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lisandro Dalcin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Nic

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 4195: Can't execute packages with -m in Python 2.6/3.0

2008-11-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
I don't think that removing an unintentional and subtly broken feature is a regression. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless this is considered a regression... > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thi

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 4195: Can't execute packages with -m in Python 2.6/3.0

2008-11-21 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
Unless this is considered a regression... On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it crosses the line. > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I need a release manager call on whether or not the proposed resolu

Re: [Python-Dev] format specification mini-language docs...

2008-11-21 Thread Eric Smith
Dino Viehland wrote: Ok, now I'm implementing __format__ support for IronPython. The format spec mini-language docs say that a presentation type of None is the same as 'g' for floating point / decimal values. Awesome! Thanks for doing this. >But these two formats seem to differ based upon ho

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0rc3

2008-11-21 Thread James Mills
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am > happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for Python > 3.0. Whoohoo! :) Grea

[Python-Dev] format specification mini-language docs...

2008-11-21 Thread Dino Viehland
Ok, now I'm implementing __format__ support for IronPython. The format spec mini-language docs say that a presentation type of None is the same as 'g' for floating point / decimal values. But these two formats seem to differ based upon how they handle whole numbers: >>> 2.0.__format__('') '2.

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding zipfile and directory execution to What's New for Python 2.6.1?

2008-11-21 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A trick we added to 2.6 that users seem to not notice is that it is now > possible to execute zipfiles and directories from the command line by > including a __main__.py module (that module will then be executed, but > more

[Python-Dev] Adding zipfile and directory execution to What's New for Python 2.6.1?

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
A trick we added to 2.6 that users seem to not notice is that it is now possible to execute zipfiles and directories from the command line by including a __main__.py module (that module will then be executed, but more importantly, the zipfile or directory name will be added to the beginning of sys.

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] 2.6.1 and 3.0

2008-11-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: Let's try this for 3.0rc4 then. The current release is rc2. Skipping rc3 would confuse people'-) Yeah, my calendar was wrong, but the PEP (and more importantly... code!) was right :). There is

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2008-11-21 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/14/08 - 11/21/08) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2194 open (+35) / 14007 closed (+18) / 16201 total (+53) Open issues with patches: 728 Average

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0rc3

2008-11-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for Python 3.0. This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for production environments,