[Python-Dev] float formatting

2009-04-26 Thread Dennis Allison
Floating point printing is tricky, as I am sure you know. You might want to refrefresh your understanding by consulting the literture--I know I would. For example, you might want to look at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=93559 Guy Steele's paper: Guy L. Steele , Jon L. White, H

Re: [Python-Dev] Does anyone care enough about asyncore and asynchat to help adapt their APIs for Py3k?

2007-12-08 Thread Dennis Allison
Guido, These modules provide the server component of many existing versions of the Zope system where they have served well (pun intended).I would be concerned were they disappear in Python 3000. On Dec 5, 2007 10:19 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The asyncore and asynchat

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.4 & 2.5 beta 3 crash

2006-08-16 Thread Dennis Allison
def test(): for abc in range(10): try: pass finally: try: pass except: pass test() does not raise a segmentation fault. On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Josiah Carlson wrote: > > Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We've been w

Re: [Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

2006-03-29 Thread Dennis Allison
Not quite on the same topic, but perhaps it belong there. I think most of use use both the stdlib and some selection of other libraries (MySQL-Python, ReportLab Toolkit, PyChart, and PyXML, for example). These libraries have to be managed independently and installed independently. It would be n

Re: [Python-Dev] Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Python

2006-03-06 Thread Dennis Allison
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:26 -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > > [Ben Chelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > > ... > > > I'd ask that if you are interested in really digging into the results a > > > bit > > > further for your project, please have a couple of core maintai

Re: [Python-Dev] Let's just *keep* lambda

2006-02-05 Thread Dennis Allison
+1 on retaining lambda -1 on any name change On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Paul Moore wrote: > On 2/5/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After so many attempts to come up with an alternative for lambda, > > perhaps we should admit defeat. I've not had the time to follow the > > most rece

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-15 Thread Dennis Allison
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brett Cannon wrote: > It is time once again in my educational career to come to python-dev > for help for major project ideas. This time, though, it is for my > Ph.D. dissertation (and thus can have larger scope than my masters > thesis) but there are funding restrictions (an

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Dennis Allison
Brett, Where are you doing your Phd and who will be your likely supervisor? It does make a difference. Your dissertation idea list seems to me to focus on implementation projects and not on research. Usually a dissertation proceeds from a hypothesis leading to an experiment, some measurements,

Re: [Python-Dev] Regular expressions

2005-11-24 Thread Dennis Allison
This is probably OT for [Python-dev] I suspect that your problem is not the GIL but is due to something else. Rather than dorking with the interpreter's threading, you probably would be better off rethinking your problem and finding a better way to accomplish your task. On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Du

Re: [Python-Dev] string find(substring) vs. substring in string

2005-02-16 Thread Dennis Allison
Boyer-Moore and variants need a bit of preprocessing on the pattern which makes them great for long patterns but more costly for short ones. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Irmen de Jong wrote: > Mike Brown wrote: > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > > >>any special reason why "in" is faster if the substring is fo

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-15 Thread Dennis Allison
Ummm... I don't think that anyone looks for information by trolling subdomain names. If I am looking for python information, I go to www.python.org or python.org. I would never guess "business.python.org". Seems to me that what we need is content and let the search engines bring on the masses.

RE: [Python-Dev] Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

2004-12-09 Thread Dennis Allison
The goal here is to make Python better known and to counter some of the prevalent myths. One way to accomplish this goal is to publish literate technical articles with real content including performance measurements and pointers to the code. Perhaps Guido could be a real-life N. Bourbaki and co-

[Python-Dev] Python 2.4 and Zope 2.7.X

2004-12-05 Thread Dennis Allison
A report on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list suggests that Python 2.4 is not fully compatible with Zope 2.7.3. Has any tested against Zope? ___ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http:/