Re: [Python-Dev] News from asyncio

2014-02-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27Jan2014 09:15, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Victor Stinner > wrote: > > - asyncio.IncompleReadError.expected is the total expected size, not > > the remaining size > > Why not be consistent with the meaning of > http.client.IncompleteRead.expected? The current

Re: [Python-Dev] News from asyncio

2014-02-02 Thread Victor Stinner
Latest asyncio update: it has a new asyncio.subprocess submodule which provides a high-level API to control subprocesses, similar to subprocess.Popen but using asyncio event loop (and so is asynchronous). It solves the following old and tricky issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue12187 "subprocess.w

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: move of reload, update new windows-only ssl functions entry.

2014-02-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Feb 2, 2014 1:08 PM, "R. David Murray" wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:20:48 -0500, Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:27 PM, r.david.murray > > wrote: > > > > > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b3f034f5000f > > > changeset: 4:b3f034f5000f > > > parent: 2:19d81c

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: move of reload, update new windows-only ssl functions entry.

2014-02-02 Thread R. David Murray
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:20:48 -0500, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:27 PM, r.david.murray > wrote: > > > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b3f034f5000f > > changeset: 4:b3f034f5000f > > parent: 2:19d81cc213d7 > > user:R David Murray > > date:Sat Feb

Re: [Python-Dev] Guidance regarding what counts as breaking backwards compatibility

2014-02-02 Thread Paul Moore
On 2 February 2014 02:11, Terry Reedy wrote: >> example, sum({1: 100, 2: 200}) returns 3. If one wanted to reserve the >> opportunity to handle mappings specifically in the future, without being >> locked in by backwards-compatibility, how should one handle it? >> >> a) document that behaviour wit