Re: [Python-Dev] standard libraries don't behave like standard 'libraries'

2009-11-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:59, Sriram Srinivasan naughtysri...@gmail.com wrote: you were thinking wrong. If suppose this feature is introduced it doesn't mean python will become batteries removed! you can ship the python release with the 'standard library packages' already installed. so what

[Python-Dev] Removal of intobject.h in 3.1

2009-11-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
The wiki page for porting to 3.x says: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingExtensionModulesToPy3k long/int Unification In Python 3.0, there is only one integer type. It is called int on the Python level, but actually corresponds to 2.x's long type. In the C-API, PyInt_* functions are replaced

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of intobject.h in 3.1

2009-11-21 Thread Eric Smith
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Since package developers are just starting to port things to 3.x and many appear to be considering supporting both 2.7 and 3.1 (including myself), I find it a bit strange that such an import aliasing header was removed in 3.1. There's some discussion of this at

[Python-Dev] Issue 1488943 - differ lib missing tab hinting

2009-11-21 Thread Phillip Hellewell
Is there anything holding up fixing issue 1488943? The bug was found and a patch submitted 3 1/2 years ago. The patch is just a single line of code (and some comment changes): common = min(common, _count_leading(btags[:common], )) http://bugs.python.org/issue1488943 Thanks, Phillip

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of intobject.h in 3.1

2009-11-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
IMHO, that's not really a good way to encourage people to try to provide a smooth upgrade to the 3.x branch. Much to the contrary. 3.x should make it easier for developers by providing more standard helpers like the removed intobject.h header file. I think it's better than it sounds. The

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of intobject.h in 3.1

2009-11-21 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: IMHO, that's not really a good way to encourage people to try to provide a smooth upgrade to the 3.x branch. Much to the contrary. 3.x should make it easier for developers by providing more standard helpers like the