Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 23/05/10 22:47, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 08:34:22 -0400 Jesse Nollerjnol...@gmail.com wrote: Brian has already agreed to name spacing it to concurrent.futures - this means it will be a small part to a much larger concurrent.* implementation ala Java. What I would

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 23/05/10 21:56, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 13:29, Brian Quinlanbr...@sweetapp.com wrote: Parts of it, yes. Just like I can replace most operations in os.path and urlparse with a few lines of code. Yeah, but parts of is not the question. I've read the PEP, and I do

Re: [Python-Dev] Dead modules

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
(Sending again - I didn't mean to drop python-dev from the cc list when I originally sent this via the gmail web interface) On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl mailto:dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: Right, it wasn't intended as that harsh... but it does come with

Re: [Python-Dev] Documenting [C]Python's Internals

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 20/05/10 08:13, Yaniv Aknin wrote: Hi, I wanted to let python-dev know about a series of articles about CPython's internals I'm publishing under the collective title Guido's Python* (http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/). A resource that may be useful to you is a 2.5 focused

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/05/10 22:47, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 08:34:22 -0400 Jesse Nollerjnol...@gmail.com  wrote: Brian has already agreed to name spacing it to concurrent.futures - this means it will be a small part to

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:10, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Those that say just put it on PyPI may not recognise the additional ... Just a note, so we don't get sidelined by misunderstandings: I don't think anybody said that. ;-) There are two issues here, one generic and one

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 26/05/10 12:29, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:10, Nick Coghlanncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Those that say just put it on PyPI may not recognise the additional ... Just a note, so we don't get sidelined by misunderstandings: I don't think anybody said that. ;-) Nah, that

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 24/05/10 20:46, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Cameron Simpson writes: There's a lot to be said for a robust implementation of a well defined problem. Brian's module, had it been present and presuming it robust and debugged, would have been quite welcome. That, of course, is the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nick Coghlan writes: Those that say just put it on PyPI Nobody is saying that, AFAICS. Nobody is saying that *some* futures module shouldn't *eventually* go into the stdlib. The question is whether *this* futures module should go into the stdlib *now*. And it is clear that more time on PyPI

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 26/05/10 13:51, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: People have been asking what's special about this module, to violate the BCP principle? There's nothing special about the fact that several people would use a robust and debugged futures module if it were in the stdlib. That's true of *every*