Re: [Python-Dev] The end of 2.7

2013-04-08 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2013/4/8 Stephen Hansen : > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Christian Tismer > wrote: >> >> On 07.04.13 14:10, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> Where I work (a trading firm that uses Python as just one of many >> different pieces of technology, not a company where Python is the core >> technology upon

Re: [Python-Dev] Is file.readlines(sizehint=N) broken on 2.7?

2013-04-05 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2013/4/5 R. David Murray : > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:24:43 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Giampaolo_Rodol=E0?= > wrote: >> 2013/4/5 INADA Naoki : >> > The builtin open() was replaced with io.open(). >> > It's difference between file.readlines() and io.IOBase.readlines(). >> >> Should that justify this diff

Re: [Python-Dev] Is file.readlines(sizehint=N) broken on 2.7?

2013-04-05 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2013/4/5 INADA Naoki : > The builtin open() was replaced with io.open(). > It's difference between file.readlines() and io.IOBase.readlines(). Should that justify this difference in behavior? Apparently on 2.X sizehint does not have any effect as far as I can see. --- Giampaolo https://code.googl

[Python-Dev] Is file.readlines(sizehint=N) broken on 2.7?

2013-04-05 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
with open('test-xxx', 'w') as f: f.write('aaa\nbbb\nccc') with open('test-xxx', 'r') as f: print(f.readlines(1)) On Python 3.3 I get: ['aaa\n'] ...while on Python 2.7: ['aaa\n', 'bbb\n', 'ccc'] Is this a bug or I'm missing something? --- Giampaolo https://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4

2012-10-03 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2012/10/3 Larry Hastings : > Other proposed large-scale changes: > [...] > * A standard event-loop interface (PEP by Jim Fulton pending) Really? Was this discussed somewhere? I'd like to know more about it. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ http:/

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite build slaves and developer SSH/GPG public keys

2012-08-23 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
> For committers on other Python projects like Buildbot, Django and > Twisted that may be reading this -- yes, the plan is to give you > guys Snakebite access/slaves down the track too. I'll start looking > into that after I've finished setting up the remaining slaves for > Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-28 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2012/6/27 Nick Coghlan : > If someone wants to see the error details, they should use os.stat directly > rather than an existence check. This is now tracked at http://bugs.python.org/issue15221 Regards, --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ http://cod

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-26 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2012/6/27 Cameron Simpson : > On 27Jun2012 01:49, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > | I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems: > | > | giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os; > | print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))"

[Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-26 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems: giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os; print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" True giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ sudo su root@ubuntu:~# python -c "import os; print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" False This is du

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 alpha 1

2012-03-06 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 06 marzo 2012 20:43, Jim J. Jewett ha scritto: > > > In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/117348.html > Georg Brandl  posted: > >> Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as >> easier >> porting between 2.x and 3.x.  Major new features in th

Re: [Python-Dev] Add a frozendict builtin type

2012-03-01 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 01 marzo 2012 02:45, Raymond Hettinger ha scritto: > > On Feb 29, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > One of my colleagues implemented recently its own frozendict class > (which the "frozendict" name ;-) > > > I write new collection classes all the time. > That doesn't mean they warrant

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

2012-02-28 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 28 febbraio 2012 15:20, Ezio Melotti ha scritto: > On 28/02/2012 14.19, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> Le mardi 28 février 2012 à 22:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >>> >>> If you're using separate branches, then your Python 2 code isn't being >>> made forward compatible with Python 3. Yes, it av

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

2012-02-28 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 28 febbraio 2012 13:19, Antoine Pitrou ha scritto: > > Le mardi 28 février 2012 à 22:14 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >> If you're using separate branches, then your Python 2 code isn't being >> made forward compatible with Python 3. Yes, it avoids making your >> Python 2 code uglier, but it me

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

2012-02-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 25 febbraio 2012 21:23, Armin Ronacher ha scritto: > Hi, > > I just uploaded PEP 414 which proposes am optional 'u' prefix for string > literals for Python 3. > > You can read the PEP online: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/ > > This is a followup to the discussion about this topic here

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistent script/console behaviour

2011-12-15 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Il 15 dicembre 2011 09:58, anatoly techtonik ha scritto: > 1. It is not a proposal, but a defect (well, you may argue, but please, > don't)> You can't copy/paste multiline scripts into system shell either, unless you append "\". It's likely that similar problems exists in a lot of other interact

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: fix wrong credit and issue id given in previous commit

2011-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/11/22 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc : > Hi, > 2011/11/22 Giampaolo Rodolà >> >> Sorry, thanks (fixed). > > You also modified Lib/sched.py in the same commit. > Was it intended? If not, please revert it. > -- > Amaury Forgeot d'Arc You're right. I com

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: sort last committed name in alphabetical order

2011-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
You're right. I committed sched.py by accident. I'm going to revert it. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/11/22 Giampaolo Rodolà : > Nope, the commit involving sched was the previous one. > This one was just

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: sort last committed name in alphabetical order

2011-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Nope, the commit involving sched was the previous one. This one was just an unrelated fix. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/11/22 Nadeem Vawda : > Did you mean to also modify sched.py in this changeset? >

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: fix wrong credit and issue id given in previous commit

2011-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Sorry, thanks (fixed). --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/11/22 Antoine Pitrou : > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:38:03 +0100 > giampaolo.rodola wrote: >> diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS >> --- a/Misc/ACKS >> +++ b/Misc/ACKS >> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ >>

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot

2011-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/11/21 Terry Reedy : > I strongly recommend that where it makes a difference, the pypy python3 > project target 3.3. In particular, don't reproduce the buggy narrow-build > behavior of 3.2 and before (perhaps pypy avoids this already). Do include > the new unicode capi in cpyext. I anticipate t

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3151 accepted

2011-10-12 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/10/12 Antoine Pitrou : > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:22:43 -0400 > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> As the BDFOP for PEP 3151, I hereby accept it for inclusion into Python 3.3. >> >> Congratulations to Antoine for producing a great PEP that has broad >> acceptance >> in the Python development community, wi

Re: [Python-Dev] Bring new features to older python versions

2011-10-10 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Thanks everybody for your feedback. I created a gcode project here: http://code.google.com/p/pycompat/ 2011/10/8 Antoine Pitrou : > There's also some stuff there that is coded in C, or that will rely on > some functionality of the core interpreter that is not easily > emulated on previous versions

[Python-Dev] Bring new features to older python versions

2011-10-08 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Hello everybody, at work we're using different versions of python, from 2.4 to 2.7. Because of the differences between the various versions in terms of features we have a "util.pycompat" module which basically is a copy & paste of different features which were added to stdlib in every new major ver

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue Tracker

2011-05-02 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/4/30 anatoly techtonik : > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM, R. David Murray > wrote: >> >> The hardest part is debugging the TAL when you make a mistake, but >> even that isn't a whole lot worse than any other templating language. > > How much in % is it worse than Django templating language

Re: [Python-Dev] Socket servers in the test suite

2011-04-28 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/4/27 Vinay Sajip : > I've been recently trying to improve the test coverage for the logging > package, > and have got to a not unreasonable point: > > logging/__init__.py 99% (96%) > logging/config.py 89% (85%) > logging/handlers.py 60% (54%) > > where the figures in parentheses include branc

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: os.sendfile(): on Linux if offset parameter is passed as NULL we were

2011-04-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
No we haven't. I plan to make a unique commit for offset=None on Linux and a serie of other tests I have implemented for py-sendfile module [1]. In details test for small file, empty file and (most important) large file: http://code.google.com/p/py-sendfile/source/browse/trunk/test/test_sendfile.py

Re: [Python-Dev] python and super

2011-04-14 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
:-) 2011/4/14 Antoine Pitrou > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:15:10 -0500 > Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > 2011/4/14 Ricardo Kirkner : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I recently stumbled upon an issue with a class in the mro chain not > > > calling super, therefore breaking the chain (ie, further base classes

Re: [Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late" (was: PyCObject_AsVoidPtr removed from python 3.2 - is this documented?)

2011-03-09 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
> Actually, why not put up a web page of "upcoming changes" somewhere, that > lists major decisions with user impact that were taken on python-dev? I think "what's new" serves this purpose properly. Usually, every time I commit a new feature, I update the what's new file as well. In fact we alread

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88729 - python/branches/py3k/Modules/posixmodule.c

2011-03-04 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Thanks. I'll try to remember ACKS and NEWS in the future. =) Fixed in r88744 and r88745. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/3/4 Nick Coghlan : > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:10 AM, giampaolo

Re: [Python-Dev] r88501 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/smtplib.py

2011-02-24 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Done for Python 3.1 and 2.7. 2011/2/24 Georg Brandl : > On 24.02.2011 20:51, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >> Mmmm probably. smtplib patches aren't too big/many though. >> Should I revert the change? > > It's probably fine if you do the same change to the maintenanc

Re: [Python-Dev] r88501 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/smtplib.py

2011-02-24 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Mmmm probably. smtplib patches aren't too big/many though. Should I revert the change? 2011/2/23 Georg Brandl : > You're sure this will not cause tedious conflicts with backports? > > Georg > > On 22.02.2011 16:56, giampaolo.rodola wrote: >> Author: giampaolo.rodola >> Date: Tue Feb 22 16:56:20 2

Re: [Python-Dev] Link to issue tracker

2011-02-23 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
+1, I often use that link as well. 2011/2/23 Antoine Pitrou : > > Hello, > > I think it was a slight mistake to remove the link to the issue tracker > from the sidebar in the "core development" section. Dave Beazley just > complained about it > (http://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/40397577916661760)

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88505 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/ftplib.py

2011-02-22 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I'll do. 2011/2/23 Victor Stinner : > You should maybe backport this fix to Python 3.2. > > Le mardi 22 février 2011 à 20:24 +0100, giampaolo.rodola a écrit : >> Author: giampaolo.rodola >> Date: Tue Feb 22 20:24:33 2011 >> New Revision: 88505 >> >> Log: >> In FTP.close() method, make sure to also

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88395 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/asyncore.py

2011-02-14 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2011/2/13 Antoine Pitrou : > >> It would then be subject to python-dev development policy rather than >> twisted dev policy (which is even stricter!). Would the twisted devs >> *really* want that? We could use the same processes we have for >> "externally maintained" libraries, but they have withou

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88395 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/asyncore.py

2011-02-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Yeah, the original API design (which is very inflexible) and the lack of maintenance for many years is at the base of asyncore problems. I still think it worths some love as a stdlib module, though. For 3.3 I have in mind to revamp asyncore/asynchat a bit by introducing SSL support and finally add

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88395 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/asyncore.py

2011-02-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I'm sorry, I'm going to revert those checkins. They are very minor changes which I'm sure don't break anything, but I understand your complain. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/2/11 Nick Coghlan : > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM, giampao

[Python-Dev] os.ioprio_get() and os.ioprio_set()

2011-01-17 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I've recently implemented this functionality in psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=147 If desired, I can contribute a patch for the os module, altough being such functions Linux-only, I'm not sure os module is the right place for them to land. Also, I've been thinking about th

Re: [Python-Dev] Add sendfile() to core?

2011-01-09 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
A strong +1. Projects such as Twisted would certainly benefit from such an addiction. I'm not sure the os module is the right place for sendfile() to land though. Implementation between different platforms tends to vary quite a bit. A good resource is the samba source code which contains an impleme

Re: [Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4

2011-01-07 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
> Module split: >  try to get all issues for 'os' module >  try to subscribe to all commits for 'CGIHTTPServer' +1 I've been thinking about such a thing as well and I think it would be useful. Every now and then I go to the bug tracker to see whether the modules I usually maintain (mainly ftplib,

[Python-Dev] os.getpriority() and os.setpriority()

2010-12-27 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Hi all, after having implemented something very similar in psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=142 ...I decided to contribute a patch for exposing getpriority() and setpriority() system calls in the os module: http://bugs.python.org/issue10784 This was also raised some time ag

Re: [Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

2010-11-13 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
+1 on everything. 2010/11/11 Alexander Belopolsky : > 2010/11/11 Michael Foord : > .. >>> You mean runtime automation, e.g. creating __all__ on the fly omitting >>> underscored names? >>> >> Writing code to generate a __all__ that duplicates the default behaviour >> seems redundant to me. >> > > F

[Python-Dev] SSH access against buildbot boxes

2010-11-06 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Hi, sorry in advance if this sounds a little indiscreet, but I think it would be great if we'd have SSH access against some of the computers used to host buildbots. Personally, I would find this particularly useful for OSX since it's one of the few OSes I can't manage to virtualize and which often

Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-29 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/10/29 Barry Warsaw : > I had a brief conversation with Michael Foord yesterday and he's writing code > that works in 2.4 through 3.2, so for *some* code bases, it's tricky and ugly, > but possible. If the application does not involve a lot of I/O, 2.4 -> 3.2 support by using a unique code bas

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for async read/write

2010-10-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
You should file a new issue on the bug tracker but unless you have a patch to propose it's unlikely that someone else is gonna implement it. Regards --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2010/10/19 Jesus Cea : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/10/12 Antoine Pitrou : > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:11:24 +0200 > Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >> Wouldn't be kinda weird that one can open the command prompt and run >> "pysetup" but not "python" on Windows? > > If you add C:\PythonXY to your path

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
ess, one day. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2010/10/12 Eric Smith : > On 10/11/2010 5:17 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >> >> 2010/10/8 Eric Smith: >>> >>> On 10/8/10 10:26 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils2 scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/10/8 Eric Smith : > On 10/8/10 10:26 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> In any case, these could be a simple shell script wrapping 'python -m >> setup'. >> It could even take a --use-python-version option to select the pythonX.Y >> it >> used, without having to encode the Python version number in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Rietveld integration into Roundup

2010-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Thanks for this. It looks very nice. 2010/10/2 "Martin v. Löwis" : > Following up to the recent thread, I have now integrated Rietveld > into Roundup. This is a rough draft still, and highly experimental. > Please try it out, but expect that it may be necessary to discard > all data (including co

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal counter to debug leaking file descriptors

2010-09-03 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
paolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2010/9/3 Terry Reedy : > On 9/3/2010 6:09 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >>> >>> Of course it would be nice to get access to FD stack so that a >>> full filename can also be retrieved in this case. >&g

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal counter to debug leaking file descriptors

2010-09-03 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
> Of course it would be nice to get access to FD stack so that a > full filename can also be retrieved in this case. On Linux, this can be easily achieved by using /proc. You can take a look at how this is done in the current development version of psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/source/br

Re: [Python-Dev] r84355 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_ssl.py

2010-08-29 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Sorry, I didn't get how the context-manager actually worked. Fixed in r84356. 2010/8/29 Michael Foord : >  On 30/08/2010 00:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:56:56 +0200 (CEST) >> giampaolo.rodola  wrote: >>> >>> +        with self.assertRaises(IOError) as err: >>> +          

Re: [Python-Dev] profiler decorator - is it worth for inclusion?

2010-07-17 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Provided a patch on the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue9285 Further comments can be submitted there, if any. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil 2010/7/15 Giampaolo Rodolà : > 2010/7/15 Brian Curtin : >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010

Re: [Python-Dev] profiler decorator - is it worth for inclusion?

2010-07-15 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/7/15 Brian Curtin : > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 13:45, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >> >> Today I was looking for a quick and dirty way to profile a method of a >> class. >> I was thinking that cProfile module had a decorator for this but I was >> wrong so I deci

[Python-Dev] profiler decorator - is it worth for inclusion?

2010-07-15 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
Today I was looking for a quick and dirty way to profile a method of a class. I was thinking that cProfile module had a decorator for this but I was wrong so I decided to write one based on hotshot. Would it be worth for inclusion? #!/usr/bin/env python import hotshot import hotshot.stats import

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-14 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#ttk-themed-widgets-for-tk Sorry, I realized just now that ttk is already included in Python 2.7 and 3.2. 2010/7/14 Giampaolo Rodolà : > 2010/7/14 Guilherme Polo : >> 2010/7/14 Terry Reedy : >>> On 7/14/2010 2:35 AM, Giam

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-14 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/7/14 Guilherme Polo : > 2010/7/14 Terry Reedy : >> On 7/14/2010 2:35 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >>> >>> One of the main problems with IDLE is the lack of tabs for editing >>> multiple files within the same window. >>> Having that alone would b

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-13 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
One of the main problems with IDLE is the lack of tabs for editing multiple files within the same window. Having that alone would be a great improvement. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/6/20 Steven D'Aprano : > Python 2.x introduced Unicode strings. Python 3.x merely makes them the > default. "Merely"? To me this looks as the main reason why a lot of projects haven't been ported to Python 3 yet. I attempted to port pyftpdlib to python 3 several times and the biggest show sto

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-18 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/6/18 Bill Janssen : > Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > >> 2010/6/17 Bill Janssen : >> >> > There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols. >> >> Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly? > > Giampaolo, I believe

Re: [Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

2010-06-17 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/6/17 Bill Janssen : > There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols. Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly? > FTP, for instance, was designed when the Internet had only 19 nodes connected > together with custom-built refrigerator-sized routers.  A very

Re: [Python-Dev] Reasons behind misleading TypeError message when passing the wrong number of arguments to a method

2010-05-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/5/20 John Arbash Meinel : > Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: >>>>> class A: >> ...     def echo(self, x): >> ...             return x >> ... >>>>> a = A() >>>>> a.echo() >> Traceback (most recent call last): >>   File "

[Python-Dev] Reasons behind misleading TypeError message when passing the wrong number of arguments to a method

2010-05-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
>>> class A: ... def echo(self, x): ... return x ... >>> a = A() >>> a.echo() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: echo() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) >>> I bet my last 2 cents this has already been raised in past but I want to give it a try a

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

2010-05-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2010/5/20 Yaniv Aknin : > 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/). Three articles already > were published already, more are planned (m

Re: [Python-Dev] Email addresses for new committers for python-committers

2010-04-21 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I'm already subscribed as "g.rod...@gmail.com" and I'm able to receive messages from the list. 2010/4/20 Brett Cannon : > If you are a committer and are NOT subscribed to the python-committers > mailing list (I believe this at least includes Giampaolo, JP, and Brian), > then please either reply to