Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 06:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The default case, the case of the user without the wherewithal to understand the nuances of the distinction between 2.x and 3.x, is a user who should use 2.x. Not at all clear. If they're not s

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Fred Drake
On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: There is. There have been the following trove classifiers defined for a few weeks now: Wonderful! Thanks for clueing me in. I'll update my projects to use those in future releases. -Fred -- Fred Drake

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I agree, this would be ideal. I'm not sure the metadata is there to > support it, though. There is. There have been the following trove classifiers defined for a few weeks now: Programming Language :: Python :: 2 Programming Language :: Python :: 2.3 Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4 Progr

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Here's a bright idea. On the 3.0 release page, include a box listing > which major third-party apps have been converted. Update it > once every couple of weeks. That way, we're not explicitly > discouraging adoption of 3.0, we're just listing what support is > then currently available (if you

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 04:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hear some folks are considering advertising 3.0 as experimental or not ready for serious use yet. With all due respect, for me, "library support" and "serious use" are synonymous. When prompted I would say that 2.5 is probably the version that a new Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Please, if you have a *new* idea that doesn't have a failure mode, by > all means post it. But don't resurrect a pointless bikeshed. While I completely agree that it is pointless to reiterate the same arguments over and over, I disagree that the bikeshed metapher applies. This metapher (IIUC) d

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Let's bring out all the same arguments, come to no conclusion, and let > it taper off unresolved, yet again! :) This time, it will be different. I will write a PEP, and will request that anybody proposing an alternative solution also write a PEP (and no change is made to the code before the PEPs

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Windows, the bytes APIs should probably not exist. > > -0. I'd prefer byte APIs return UTF-16 bytes and the unicode APIs > become validating.

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default case, the case of the user without the wherewithal > to understand the nuances of the distinction between 2.x and 3.x, is a user > who should use 2.x. Not at all clear. If they're not sensitive to those nuances it's just as

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of bringing up something that was already rejected, let me > propose something that follows the path taken in 3.0 for filenames, > rather than doubling back: > > For os.environ, os.getenv() and os.putenv(), I

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 4 Dec, 07:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latter statement worries me. It seems to unnecessarily undermine adoption of 3.0. It essentially says, "don't use this". Is that what we want? I think so. The default case, the case of the user without the wherewithal to understand the nua

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: >>> >>> 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, >>> including the ones that currently fail to decode. >>> (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented >>> f

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6.1

2008-12-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hot on the heals of Python 3.0 comes the Python 2.6.1 bug-fix release. This is the latest production-ready version in the Python 2.6 family. Dozens of issues have fixed since Python 2.6 final was released in October. Please see the NEWS file

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> FWIW, I still agree with Martin that that's the most reasonable solution. >> >> It died because nobody presente

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
I hear some folks are considering advertising 3.0 as experimental or not ready for serious use yet. I think that's too negative -- we should encourage people to use it, period. They'll have to decide for themselves whether they can live with the lack of ported 3rd party libraries -- which may reso

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Fred Drake
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It occurs to me that this specific idea (the box with the list of supported applications / libraries) should be implementable as a simple query against PyPI. I don't know if it actually is :), but it should be. In general it would be ni

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 02:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:29:31PM -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote: Here's a bright idea. On the 3.0 release page, include a box listing which major third-party apps have been converted. Update it once every couple of weeks. That way, we're not explicitly

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 02:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I still agree with Martin that that's the most reasonable solution. It died because nobody presented a viable solution, and I maintain no solution is possible. All suggesti

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread glyph
On 02:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Y Knight wrote: On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. L�wis wrote: I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to fil

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what Mono does here? Presumably they have the exact same > problem as all strings in .NET are Unicode, and filenames/env vars/etc... > are always strings. > > Maybe if it's gotta be broken at least it can b

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Dino Viehland
Does anyone know what Mono does here? Presumably they have the exact same problem as all strings in .NET are Unicode, and filenames/env vars/etc... are always strings. Maybe if it's gotta be broken at least it can be broken in a manner that's consistent with others :) > -Original Message

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:29:31PM -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Here's a bright idea. On the 3.0 release page, include a box listing > which major third-party apps have been converted. Update it > once every couple of weeks. That way, we're not explicitly That's an excellent idea. We coul

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:14 PM, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >> I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: >> >> 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, >> including the ones that currently fail to decode. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
James Y Knight wrote: On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread James Y Knight
On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented file operations again)

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Nick Coghlan wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for print(..., file=xxx). And I know that there was concern for b

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Raymond Hettinger wrote: From: "A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps the statement could say something like "we do not expect most Python packages will be ported to the 3.x series until around the time 3.1 is released in X months." (where X=12? 6?) I would leave out any discussion of

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
2008/12/4 Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Also, we don't know the timing of the third-party updates. Some may never get converted. Some may convert quickly and easily. Someone (perhaps me) may organize a series of funded sprints to get many of the major packages converted. From: "Paul

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I would think life would be ultimately easier if either the file server or the shell server automatically translated file names from jis and utf8 and back, so that the PATH on the *nix shell server is entirely utf8. This is not possible because no part of the computer k

Re: [Python-Dev] Holding a Python Language Summit at PyCon

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:05, Frank Wierzbicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 14:00 - 15:30 >>> = >>> >>> Two tracks: >>> >>> Cross-impl

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Janzert
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first > implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would > like to merge the python-3000 mailing list back into python-dev, > and the python-3000-checkins mailing list back into python-checkins. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> In the bug report I opened, I listed four ways to fix this along with > the pros and cons: I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution: 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to file names, then drop

Re: [Python-Dev] Taint Mode in Python 3.0

2008-12-04 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
Hello, The thing is pypy's taint code is broken. Basically you don't only need to patch all places that return pyobject, but also all places that might modify anything. (All side effects) For example innocently looking call to addition might end up calling arbitrary python code (and have arbitrary

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> trunk ---> release26-maint >> \-> py3k ---> release30-maint >> >> > > As a side-note: this merging flow means that bugfix and feature commits > may never be merged from trunk to py3k in one svnmerge batch. Else, > they cannot be separated when merging from py3k to 30-maint.

Re: [Python-Dev] Taint Mode in Python 3.0

2008-12-04 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hello, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:36, Nicole King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have published the diff for my implementation of tainted mode in Python for > R3.0 (released version) at http://www.cats-muvva.net/software/. Look at the > bottom the page. I apologise for past problems a

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I can't find any docs built for Python 3.0 (not 3.1a0). The Windows installation has new 3.0 doc dated Dec 3, so it was built, just not posted correctly. That doesn't mean very much. I built

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> ISTM, 3.0 is in pretty good shape. There is nothing intrinsically wrong > with it. I think it has many bugs, some known before the release, but many more yet to show up. I agree that the design is good; the implementation will certainly improve (I deliberately didn't say "could have been better

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> I can't find any docs built for Python 3.0 (not 3.1a0). > > The Windows installation has new 3.0 doc dated Dec 3, so it was built, > just not posted correctly. That doesn't mean very much. I built it on my local machine. Anybody with subversion and python could do that; the documentation is i

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> The bug report I opened suggests creating a PEP to address this issue. >>> I think that's a good idea for whether os.listdir() and friends should >>> be changed to raise an exce

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Adam Olsen wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Here's an example which will become popular soon, I guess: CGI scripts >> > and, of course WSGI applications. All those get t

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Moore
2008/12/4 Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, we don't know the timing of the third-party updates. > Some may never get converted. Some may convert quickly > and easily. Someone (perhaps me) may organize a series of > funded sprints to get many of the major packages converted. One pie

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Terry Reedy wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was >> suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I >> should come here to see about getting the feature changed :-) > > It does you no good and (and will irrita

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread André Malo
* Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's an example which will become popular soon, I guess: CGI scripts > > and, of course WSGI applications. All those get their environment in an > > unknown encoding. In the worst case one can blow

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * Adam Olsen wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was suggested in the repor

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 13:07, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, >> as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now >> writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for prin

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> The bug report I opened suggests creating a PEP to address this issue. >> I think that's a good idea for whether os.listdir() and friends should >> be changed to raise an exception but not having any

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I should come here to see about getting the feature changed :-) It does you no good and (and will irritate others) to conflate 'design

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 13:21, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin Peterson schrieb: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Christian Heimes wrote: Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python 3.0 is ou

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
From: "A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps the statement could say something like "we do not expect most Python packages will be ported to the 3.x series until around the time 3.1 is released in X months." (where X=12? 6?) I would leave out any discussion of 3.1. Its content and rele

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM, André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Adam Olsen wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was >> > suggested in the report that it's not a bug b

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Dmitry Vasiliev
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first > implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would +1 -- Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru) http://hlabs.spb.ru ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:20:34PM +, Paul Moore wrote: > Hmm, looking back, the quote Raymond is referring to is just a > suggestion for additional text on the 3.0 page. I agree with him that > it's a bit too negative. Actually I want it to be an entirely separate page so that we can point pe

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Christian Heimes schrieb: > Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that > Python 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. > > Flow diagram > > > trunk ---> release26-maint > \-> py3k ---> release30-maint > > > Patches for all versions of Py

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Benjamin Peterson schrieb: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christian Heimes wrote: >>> >>> Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python >>> 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. >>> >>> Flow diagram >>> >>> >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > The bug report I opened suggests creating a PEP to address this issue. > I think that's a good idea for whether os.listdir() and friends should > be changed to raise an exception but not having any way to get at some > environment variables seems like it's just a bug that n

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was >> suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I >> should come here to see about getting the feature change

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > * that 3.1 will rearrange the standard library in mostly-known ways, and > * that we expect people to use 3.0 mostly for compatibility testing, > not going into serious production use until 3.1 or maybe even 3.2. As Raymond notes, this is probably too negative: for new p

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread André Malo
* Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was > > suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I > > should come here to see about getting the featu

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Terry Reedy wrote: > and this could give some people a mis-impression, most likely negative, > as to the magnitude and nature of the change. Most of the code I am now > writing would, I believe, run with 2.5 except for print(..., file=xxx). > And I know that there was concern for backward compati

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:20:34 +, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] One thing I'd like to see more clearly stated is that there's no reason NOT to use Python 3.0 for new code. I don't think that message has really come across yet - in spite

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was > suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I > should come here to see about getting the feature changed :-) > > I have a spec

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Moore
2008/12/4 "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any objections? The timing is right, go for it. Paul ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/opti

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Moore
2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> * that 3.1 will rearrange the standard library in mostly-known ways, and >>> * that we expect people to use 3.0 mostly for compatibility testing, not >>> going into serious production >>> use until 3.1 or maybe even 3.2. >> The latter statement wo

Re: [Python-Dev] Holding a Python Language Summit at PyCon

2008-12-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Frank Wierzbicki wrote: > > Cross-implementation issues: > > I would like to champion this one. Thanks! You're now listed as the champion for it. --amk ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Holding a Python Language Summit at PyCon

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:05, Frank Wierzbicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 14:00 - 15:30 >> = >> >> Two tracks: >> >> Cross-implementation issues: >> >> What do the various VMs want/need from CPython to help

Re: [Python-Dev] Holding a Python Language Summit at PyCon

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 14:00 - 15:30 > = > > Two tracks: > > Cross-implementation issues: > > What do the various VMs want/need from CPython to help with their > implementations? > > * Marking CPython-specific tests in the test sui

[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

2008-12-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
I opened up bug http://bugs.python.org/issue4006 a while ago and it was suggested in the report that it's not a bug but a feature and so I should come here to see about getting the feature changed :-) I have a specific problem with os.environ and a somewhat less important architectural issue with

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Fred Drake
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Eric Smith wrote: Apologies if this has been discussed before. I looked but didn't see anything. Probably has, just 'cause everything has been discussed before. Given that at least 99% of the changes for the trunk will not get merged into release26-maint, doesn't

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: From: "A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think we should also have a statement upon on python.org about future plans: e.g. * that there will be a Python 2.7 that will incorporate what we lea

Re: [Python-Dev] Taint Mode in Python 3.0

2008-12-04 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
When I try to run this, I get: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/fijal/lang/python/Python30/Lib/encodings/__init__.py", line 31, in File "/home/fijal/lang/python/Python30/Lib/codecs.py", line 1060, in Taint

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
From: "A.M. Kuchling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think we should also have a statement upon on python.org about future plans: e.g. * that there will be a Python 2.7 that will incorporate what we learn from people trying to port, * that 3.1 will rearrange the standard library in mostly-known ways, an

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heimes wrote: >> >> Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python >> 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. >> >> Flow diagram >> >> >> trunk ---> release26-maint >> \-

[Python-Dev] Taint Mode in Python 3.0

2008-12-04 Thread Nicole King
Dear All, I have published the diff for my implementation of tainted mode in Python for R3.0 (released version) at http://www.cats-muvva.net/software/. Look at the bottom the page. I apologise for past problems accessing this web site: I hope to have resolved all the issues with it. Nicole ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Eric Smith
Christian Heimes wrote: Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. Flow diagram trunk ---> release26-maint \-> py3k ---> release30-maint Patches for all versions of Python should land in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jeremy Hylton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python >> 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. >> >> Flow diagram >>

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python > 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. > > Flow diagram > > > trunk ---> release26-maint > \-> py3k ---> release3

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000-checkins] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 23:36, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first > implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would > like to merge the python-3000 mailing list back into python-dev, > and the python-300

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Patches for all versions of Python should land in the trunk. They are then >> merged into release26-maint and py3k branches. Changes for Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patches for all versions of Python should land in the trunk. They are then > merged into release26-maint and py3k branches. Changes for Python 3.0 are > merged via the py3k branch. Thanks, Christian! Questions: (1) If

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Guido van Rossum wrote: Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the making. This is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases, I think this while remaining true to BDFL

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Terry Reedy
Georg Brandl wrote: I can't find any docs built for Python 3.0 (not 3.1a0). The Windows installation has new 3.0 doc dated Dec 3, so it was built, just not posted correctly. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/

[Python-Dev] Merging flow

2008-12-04 Thread Christian Heimes
Several people have asked about the patch and merge flow. Now that Python 3.0 is out it's a bit more complicated. Flow diagram trunk ---> release26-maint \-> py3k ---> release30-maint Patches for all versions of Python should land in the trunk. They are then me

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:36 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first > implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would > like to merge the python-3000 mailing list back into python-dev, > and the python-3

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Facundo Batista
2008/12/4 A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * that there will be a Python 2.7 that will incorporate what we learn from > people trying to port, > * that 3.1 will rearrange the standard library in mostly-known ways, and > * that we expect people to use 3.0 mostly for compatibility testing, > n

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Holden
Georg Brandl wrote: > Nick Coghlan schrieb: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> I tried to find the documentation here: >>> >>> http://python.org/doc/ >>> >>> but clicking on the links: >>> >>> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/3.0.html >>> http://docs.python.org/3.0 >> These 404 for me as well. but the dev

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Georg Brandl
Nick Coghlan schrieb: > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> I tried to find the documentation here: >> >> http://python.org/doc/ >> >> but clicking on the links: >> >> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/3.0.html >> http://docs.python.org/3.0 > > These 404 for me as well. but the dev links have already rolled

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:51:33PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Yay! > We are confident that Python 3.0 is of the same high quality as our > previous releases, such as

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Any objections? +1 ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r67511 - in python/trunk: Doc/library/logging.rst Lib/logging/__init__.py Lib/test/test_logging.py Misc/NEWS

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
vinay.sajip wrote: > +def _showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, file=None, line=None): > +""" > +Implementation of showwarnings which redirects to logging, which will > first > +check to see if the file parameter is None. If a file is specified, it > will > +delegate t

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Ondrej Certik wrote: > I tried to find the documentation here: > > http://python.org/doc/ > > but clicking on the links: > > http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/3.0.html > http://docs.python.org/3.0 These 404 for me as well. but the dev links have already rolled over to 3.1a0. There are also no cr

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> On this page: >> http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ >> >> The text "This is a proeuction release" should probab

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Merging mailing lists

2008-12-04 Thread Fred Drake
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:36 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to merge mailing lists, now that the design and first > implementation of Python 3000 is complete. In particular, I would +1 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is w