Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Add rules for indenting continuation lines.

2011-06-03 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 00:15, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 02, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: > >>On 6/2/2011 12:01 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> Bingo. That's why. (Though you are missing some colons in your examples.:-) >>> >>> --Guido >> >>You operate as a good Python compiler :) >

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-06-03 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-05-27 - 2011-06-03) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open2815 ( +2) closed 21221 (+56) total 24036 (+58) Open issues wit

[Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Lagerwall
With regards to http://bugs.python.org/issue11457 What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX specification uses. This is confusingly similar to the existing st_atime, st_ctime and st_mtime. Also, should it be t

Re: [Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > .. > What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? > st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX > specification uses. This is confusingly similar to the existing > st_atime, st_ctime and st_mtime. > S

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Fix reST label for collections ABCs.

2011-06-03 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:27 AM, eric.araujo wrote: > > Fix reST label for collections ABCs. > > The previous markup hijacked the abstract-base-classes glossary entry, > which resulted in the HTML linking to collections.abc when defining the > generic ABC concept. Now the glossary links to the abc

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Fix reST label for collections ABCs.

2011-06-03 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 03/06/2011 19:43, Raymond Hettinger a écrit : > I think the users are better served by links to collections.abc, io.abc, etc. The specific problem I addressed was that :ref:`abstract-base-classes` was replaced by “Collections Abstract Base Classes”, which was wrong: the glossary entry talks abo

Re: [Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? See my comment: -1 on having such a tuple in the first place. We have the decimal type to represent arbitrary-precision time stamps. > st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX > specification uses. This is

Re: [Python-Dev] Sniffing passwords from PyPI using insecure connection

2011-06-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I followed up on the tracker. I'm +0 on adding this to 2.6, but not until > after the 2.6.7 release on Friday. > > How well has this change been tested? Are there people for whom this could > break things? As others have pointed out: it would break systems that don't have the _ssl module buil

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module

2011-06-03 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 03 juin 2011 17:28:48, eric.araujo a écrit : > +packaging > +- > + > +:mod:`distutils` has undergone additions and refactoring under a new name, > +:mod:`packaging`, to allow developers to break backward compatibility. > +:mod:`distutils` is still provided in the standard librar

Re: [Python-Dev] Sniffing passwords from PyPI using insecure connection

2011-06-03 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:40 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> I followed up on the tracker.  I'm +0 on adding this to 2.6, but not until >> after the 2.6.7 release on Friday. >> >> How well has this change been tested?  Are there people for whom this could >> break things? > > As others have pointe

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module

2011-06-03 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2011 06:06 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Le vendredi 03 juin 2011 17:28:48, eric.araujo a écrit : >> +packaging >> +- >> + >> +:mod:`distutils` has undergone additions and refactoring under a new name, >> +:mod:`packaging`, to allow deve

[Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.7

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hello Pythoneers and Pythonistas, I'm happy to announce the final release of Python 2.6.7. Python 2.6 is in security-fix only mode. This means that general bug maintenance has ended, and only critical security issues are being fixed. We will support Python 2.6 in security-fix only mode until Oct

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module

2011-06-03 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: > > Even for Python 2.4, really? Do you really need to support this old > Python > > > Yes. Many projects distribute packages to folks still using 2.4. > Supporting detail: I recently installed the latest CentOS, 5.6, and found that it still Sh

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module

2011-06-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Supporting detail: I recently installed the latest CentOS, 5.6, and found > that it still Ships with CPython 2.4. > > I installed a CPython 3.2 in /usr/local almost immediately, but I can see > how some might want 2.4 support yet. Yeah, this