[Python-Dev] Re: Release of a responsive python-docs-theme 2021.5

2021-05-09 Thread Titus Brown
Thanks, Carol (and Olga)! This sounds great! I’m sure you can all google :), but here’s the link: https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme I wasn’t able to find examples - is this what is up and running on docs.python.org, or is that a future plan? thanks much, —titus p.s. Not sure what ad

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February

2021-03-09 Thread Titus Brown
> On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 3/9/2021 3:27 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > >> The Steering Council just published the community update for February: > > Thank you for posting this. > >>The Steering Council discussed renaming the master branch to main >>a

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-ideas] Re: Amend PEP-8 to require clear, understandable comments instead of Strunk & White Standard English comments

2020-06-29 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-Dev
Hi all, as a moderator of python-ideas, I’ve asked postmaster to place python-ideas into emergency moderation. (I do not have the tools to do so myself.) I’m willing to review messages individually as needed. best, —titus > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > wrote: > >

[Python-Dev] Re: [Possibly off-topic] Python-Announce floods and delays

2019-07-08 Thread C. Titus Brown
e delivery timestamps) to > something that can be done on a coffee break. I already help moderate python-ideas and would be happy to help moderate announce. best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-

[Python-Dev] Re: Annoying user on GitHub

2019-07-02 Thread C. Titus Brown
> On Jul 2, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > > On 02Jul2019 0840, Mariatta wrote: >> I've used the "Report abuse" feature on GitHub for such situations. Most of >> the time I see the user suspended, and the associated comments deleted. >> Our GitHub admins can delete comments too. >> On

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

2012-08-24 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Giampaolo Rodol? wrote: > > 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 > > i

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub mirror (Was: Bitbucket mirror?)

2012-07-05 Thread C. Titus Brown
part of a streamlined process, would it cause problems? (What I'm really asking is whether or the bugs.python.org process is considered critical for potentially minor doc changes and additions.) thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:42:55AM +0200, Eli Bendersky wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:25, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > I see the point, but as a reasonably knowledgeable Python programmer > > (intelligent? who knows...) I regularly discover nifty new modules > > that &qu

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
of several > modules. I see the point, but as a reasonably knowledgeable Python programmer (intelligent? who knows...) I regularly discover nifty new modules that "replace" stdlib modules. It'd be nice to have pointers in the docs, although that runs the risk of having the point

Re: [Python-Dev] #include "Python.h"

2012-01-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
core for example.. python-dev isn't that inappropriate, IMO, but probably the best place to go with this discussion is python-ideas. Could you repost over there? cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot for AIX

2010-11-08 Thread C. Titus Brown
0.8.1/Interlocks.html One the neat things that a master/slave system like buildbot provides... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscri

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
done so in public fora so I'm sure you can find the records, if you care to look. But it's not really very relevant to this conversation, especially since Trent has always been interested in building off the buildbot setup rather than replacing it. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

2010-11-02 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:28:43PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > C. Titus Brown writes: > > > p.s. Seriously? I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument > > for this "feature", > > It is a feature, even if you aren't gonna need i

Re: [Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

2010-11-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
I am surprised by the above claim ;-). Huh. Count me out. I guess I don't live up to your standards. --titus p.s. Seriously? I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument for this "feature", but arguing that it's somehow the responsibility of a programmer t

Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
iscussions on how to clone Martin and others, though. I just need some epithelial cells, I think. And about $20 bn dollars, and relocation to Israel (which I think has the best combination of tech and human use guidelines for cloning). Martin's permission is not *strictly* necessary but sh

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote: > On 07/07/2010 17:06, Shashwat Anand wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, C. Titus Brown > <mailto:c...@msu.edu>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> over on the fellowship o'

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:36:10PM +0530, Shashwat Anand wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > over on the fellowship o' the packaging mailing list, one of our GSoC > > students > > (merwok) asked about how m

[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
phinx.pocoo.org/markup/index.html for sphinx-specific markup constructs. thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
her investigation. Since it's DVCS, it's much easier to change the "official" repo, but it still incurs costs in terms of documentation, workflow changes, etc. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation

2010-06-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
talks about data, not code. Really? It has some guidelines here for object files, etc., at least as of 2004. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html A quick scan suggests /usr/lib is the right place to look: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.h

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
a review process. (Not that I do any Python reviews, note. But it's a great technique in general.) It's also fantastically simple and esay to interact with patches that are branches on someone's bitbucket or github repo; much better than uploading and downloading patch files whil

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
volunteer. We have some space in our machine room, and some sysadmins that like open source. I will ask them if they are willing to do physical maintenance (profs wisely aren't allowed access to the machine room). That would really be ideal... I will report back to interested people. --t

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
u get it working... I build python2.7 nightly on Mac OS X, but just at the command line. see: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/ http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/show_all (the Windows build is flaky for me, so the 'show_all&

Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
robustify this process. OTOH, my Mac automated builds/tests are working just fine. I could produce nightly binaries from those easily enough: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/ Just need to figure out the magic doohickey commands... will add to list. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
ion to open > source projects. You normally contribute to scratch an itch. > Unfortunately, these binaries don't come out such a motiviation. So the > release manager roles are either altruistic, or rely on extrinsic > motivations (money, repu

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
re is just not that expensive compared to the dedication of the volunteers. If Georg, Benjamin, Martin, or Ronald are interested, please just tell me (or Steve, or the PSF board, or ...) what you want and I'll work on getting it funded. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Code coverage metrics

2010-04-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
7;t see why we care where it's posted, but that's what you asked about.) I keep on running into technical barriers in getting cross-platform code coverage analysis working, which would be quite valuable; it's easy to get it working once, but to keep it working is a maintenance task

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-31 Thread C. Titus Brown
vements, with an eye to making changes that can then be evaluated in terms of maintainability, extensibility, etc. Having them actually change the infrastructure itself seems to me like a bad idea :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:40:06AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: > I would vote for allowing student work on community infrastructure > tasks. Tracker, Wiki, Web site management tools are all outdated and > everybody who cares agrees that they've seen a better tools. As long as it's programming,

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-19 Thread C. Titus Brown
SoC project; any non-trivial > porting will be. Sounds good to me. Line up a good student and bob's your uncle. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:13:42PM -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2010/3/18 C. Titus Brown : > > Hi all, > > > > once again, the PSF has been accepted as a mentoring foundation for the > > Google > > Summer of Code! ??This year, we're going to emphasize py

[Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
rg/mailman/listinfo/soc2010-general thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/arch

Re: [Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 06:43:50PM +, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:28:50PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > >> That's not true, see > >> > >> http://w

Re: [Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
osx.5 trunk Ahh! Sorry, was searching for 'mac' somewhere in the string. Those tests are also broken but in different areas from mine. Again, if people would like shell access, just ask. best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

[Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
o. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
ripts can be used from within buildbot, if people are interested. > Another consequence is that different committers actually use different > procedures. Trent created much of the Tools/buildbot setup, so he is > obviously in favor of that strategy. Christian Heimes cre

[Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
#x27;buildmsi.bat' file has 'build' misspelled as 'buold' ;) I'd love to get this build process working completely automatically and 100% correctly, too. Hat tip to Trent Nelson, who helped me figure out where the scripts are and what other things I needed... cheers,

Re: [Python-Dev] Cloud build slaves (was Re: Possible language summit topic: buildbots)

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
ize the level of work and attention involved (<- he says cynically) in exploiting the offer of resources; I hope that anyone interested in offering resources will pop their head up again to look around. > I hope everyone is on board with the idea of fixing bugs in CPython, > either in

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:49:51PM +, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/10/30 C. Titus Brown : > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:21:06PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Sorry for the little redundancy, I would like to underline Jean-Paul

Re: [Python-Dev] [TIP] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
ace. ?So Brett can probably do what he wants > > with BuildBot right now. > > ... but pony-build follows a different model I'd rather not get into discussions of why my vaporware is going to be way, way better than anything anyone else could possibly do -- that's flamebait

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:41:39PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 ?? 09:31 -0700, C. Titus Brown a ??crit : > > [ ... ] > > > > I'm happy to provide VMs or shell access for Windows (XP, Vista, 7); Linux > > ia64; Linux x86; and Mac

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
of paying a dedicated developer to make the CPython+buildbot tests reliable is better, although I would still be -0 on it (I don't think the PSF should be paying for this kind of thing at all). cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
e together a build script that spins up a buildslave on EC2 and runs the tests there; I wrote something similar a few years ago for an infrequently connected home machine. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
r the pony-build main screen should be, contact me off-list; I'm reluctant to spam up python-dev or testing-in-python. That having been said, the results of taking it and trying it out -- you can post results to my own recording server at http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb

Re: [Python-Dev] BDFL pronouncement?

2009-10-09 Thread C. Titus Brown
"distribute" work? > > > > That's absurd. ?There's a certain area where Guido can make pronouncements, > > but third-party packages is not it. ?Even if they're hosted on python.org > > infrastructure. > > Right. Is that a pronouncement? :) &qu

Re: [Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7 / buildbots / testing

2009-09-23 Thread C. Titus Brown
w months, too, and I am happy to slice that off to provide more VMs -- basically whatever x86-based platforms people think are needed. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] FWD: Front Runner Program

2009-09-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
compiling either trunk or py3k on Win 7? Would this be useful? My recently acquired* MSDN account has led me to getting XP up and running in a VM, and I would be happy to try other Windows OSes of interest. --titus * acquired courtesy of Snakebite/Trent Nelson. -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___

[Python-Dev] Snakebite (was: Re: py3k buildbots)

2009-06-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
k ;-) (what's up with it, anyway?). We're still getting the machines set up. It turns out delivering power and A/C to a wide variety of architectures is more complicated than it may sound ;) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr)

2009-06-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
mmense help for understanding the discussion. Something like MarkMail (as Dirkjan mentioned) may have a better interface. I'll give it a try. thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr)

2009-06-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
f is too fragile to work reliably & specifically over time, which is what we would want -- "fire and forget". Is there a good python-dev archive search mechanism (other than to google "python-dev " ;) out there? Wouldn't that help? cheers, --titus -- C. Tit

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
creating them is difficult, and might require writing a PEP -> (whose acceptance then might not happen within a summer). Well, that's a more unassailable argument and one I agree with ;). cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
e had a GSoC student two years back who worked on something like this; his name is Michal Kwiatkowski. He probably has the code working somewhere. It's a nontrivial problem if you want to do it properly with VMs etc. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:05:02PM -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: -> 2009/4/10 C. Titus Brown : -> > 2x "improve testing tools for py3k" -- variously focus on improving test -> > ?? ?? ?? ??coverage and testing wrappers. -> > -> > ?? ?? ?? ??One proposes to pr

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
also involves -> testing this area (idle and tkinter), Titus ? I'm considering this -> more important than "just" dealing with the tracker issues. What, I tell you that your app is going to be accepted and we shouldn't argue about it, and you want to

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
pport. See http://slexy.org/view/s2pFgWxufI for details. sphinx framework improvement -- support for per-paragraph comments and user/developer interface for submitting/committing fixes 2x "keyring package" -- see http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/

[Python-Dev] graphics maths types in python core?

2009-04-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
pythons development cycle. Whereas a small set of -> types can be implemented and stabalised for python more easily. -> -> Also, it's not image, or 3d format types -- since those are also a way -> larger project. -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

[Python-Dev] GSoC (was Re: PyDict_SetItem hook)

2009-04-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
work? Alas, it's too late to submit new proposals; the deadline was yesterday. The next "Google gives us money to wrangle students into doing development" project will probably be GHOP for highschool students, in the winter, although it has not been announce

[Python-Dev] core python tests (was: Re: PyDict_SetItem hook)

2009-04-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
ngs at python.org but if you want me to host it, I can. N.B. There are a bunch of GSoC projects to work on or with the CPython test framework (increase test coverage, write plugins to make it runnable in nose or py.test, etc.). I don't know that the students should be active participants in su

[Python-Dev] More GSoC - make sure you list your projects!

2009-03-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
many applicants we have and how many applications are good. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/op

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC: Core Python development tools

2009-03-23 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:26:54PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: -> C. Titus Brown wrote: -> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:30:01PM -0300, Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote: -> > I do think you should be prepared for pushback from python-dev on any -> > such ideas ;). Don't get too

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-22 Thread C. Titus Brown
done some good doctest stuff, for example; the 'testing-in-python' list would be a good place to go for finding out more. Note, you don't have to offer to be the mentor to post it, but it would help ;) cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC: Core Python development tools

2009-03-22 Thread C. Titus Brown
u and the students are prepared to adapt to what people on python-dev think. Mind you, ultimately the people doing the work should make the decisions, but input from python-dev is usually pretty useful even when it's contradictory! cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] [snakebite] Re: snakebite for GSoC?

2009-03-20 Thread C. Titus Brown
dy student is building something, but he can't work on it over the summer, so continuing it in various ways could be a GSoC project. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
y arguments about what the *right* functionality to add to unittest would be to want to give it to a student. I think a student would probably not be willing or able to fight the battles necessary to get his/her changes into the core... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
y to -> another, writing patches for 3.x compatibility issues. There must be -> lots of people who care about 3.x adoption, and this is probably the -> most effective way they can reach that goal. Does anyone smell a few GSoC projects? (And maybe GHOP if Google decides to run it aga

Re: [Python-Dev] Using Cython for standard library?

2008-11-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
sion is a good test suite for your code to -> make sure it keeps working as expected when you update your compiler. Hey, wait, isn't that also a requirement for Py3k? :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
from darcs for all my future projects. (darcs, of course, is kind of a low bar: it has some scalability issues, and it is feature-poor relative to hg and bzr in patch cherry-picking, esp.) :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
ere are reasons why git should be at least strongly considered. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] Using Cython for standard library?

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
ng about that... ...or is switching to Cython/Pyrex/foo a non-starter? cheers, --titus [0] Which is to say: a variety of reasons, many of which are obviously arguable, otherwise the Pyrex maintainer would have quit maintaining Pyrex :). But let's not go into them! -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PR

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: -> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -> Hash: SHA1 -> -> C. Titus Brown wrote: -> > Since I/we want to distribute pygr to end-users, this is really not a -> > pleasant prospect. Also often the installati

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:01:35AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: -> At 7:37 AM -0700 9/4/08, C. Titus Brown wrote: -> >On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: -> ... -> >-> Shipping an application to end users is a different problem. Such packages -&

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
I'm teaching an intro programming course using Python. It doesn't seem like the students are going to need to install *anything* other than base Python in order to play with full networking libraries & sqlite databases, among other features. And, for me and for them, that's

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
or example, all of this is -> abstracted and you simply use "regular" python objects. I agree. I like bsddb for just this reason and I'd like to continue being able to use it! I think that there are many reasons why having such

[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
s-platform object store backend distributed with Python. sqlite could be one choice, but I haven't used it much yet, so I don't know. thanks, --titus [0] Python graph database for bioinformatics, http://code.google.com/p/pygr -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

2008-08-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
-Dev two or three weeks ago (you can't miss it in the July archives, I'd bet). You should read that IMO. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
eline for unittest. Having *one* Python-general way to name your test files and test functions/classes that is also compatible across nose, py.test, and unittest would be a real gain for Python, IMO. You could even set the default unittest __main__ to run the discover_tests function, e.g.

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, C. Titus Brown wrote: -> At this point I might suggest taking a look at the nose and py.test -> discovery rules and writing a simple test discovery system to find & -> wrap 'test_' functions/classes and doctests in a unittest wrap

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
proposal... Paranthetically, wrt unittest, the world seems to be divided into two kinds of people : those who find the current API uninspiring but ok, and those who absolutely hate it. Has anyone said that they *love* the current unittest API with all of it

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module (updated 2008-07-15)

2008-07-15 Thread C. Titus Brown
implicity in test suites is at least as important as in code: if you have to work hard to understand and debug your test suites, you've done something seriously wrong in building your tests. Tests should be as simple as possible, and no simpler. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
essed in some other way. Also see: http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2007-November/000406.html & associated thread, for those interested in the variety of mock libraries... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Python-Dev] Python FAQ: Why doesn't Python have a "with" statement?

2008-06-19 Thread C. Titus Brown
;) --- which is DSL-ish enough for me... More generally, I've never understood why some people insist that certain features make Ruby better for DSLs -- are code blocks really that important to DSLs? Or is it just the lack of parens?? --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

2008-05-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
plug & play. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-16 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:12:52AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: -> Bill Janssen writes: -> > > >> ~/Library/ is a Mac OS X thing. -> > > -> > > Bill> Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by -> > > Bill> default. -> -> > > [etc.] -> -> > [tocatta

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Joseph Armbruster wrote: -> Having a "core mentor" would be great but do they really have time for -> that? I've been lucky at finding people in #python / #python-dev) that can -> answer development inquiries (or at least verify something is or is not a ->

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: -> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -> > You don't put the bar high for newbies on the Python project eh? :) -> > -> > I am assumign that most of those contributions code-wise need a fair amount of -> > knowledge of Python's in

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
-> > Incidentally, I'm planning to set up an SVK repos containing the GHOP -> > doc patches; that way they can stay sync'ed with 2.6 work. I'd be happy -> > to do the same thing with reviewed-and-probably-OK patches, although I -> > don't know if repository proliferation is a generally good idea ;

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote: -> On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: -> > My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is -> > mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much -> > on 2.6. -> -> For those of us st

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:48:25PM -0200, Facundo Batista wrote: -> 2008/1/3, Titus Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -> -> > What needs to be done with 2.6? I'm happy to review patches, although -> > even were commit access on offer I'm too scatterbrained to do a g

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:15:04AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: -> We're getting a fair number of doc contributions, especially since the -> docs were converted from Latex to ReST, and especially since the start -> of the GHOP project. -> -> My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2

[Python-Dev] Updating descrintro

2007-12-22 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, re http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/ on "Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2", we have a GHOP task to "fill in" the Additional Topics section of this document. 'novanasa', the student who took this task, has written up a nice set of doctest

Re: [Python-Dev] Converting tests to unittest/doctest?

2007-12-21 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Quentin Gallet-Gilles wrote: -> (oops, realized I didn't send it to the list, just to Titus) -> -> I remember that it was one of the tasks at the Python Sprint at Google last -> summer, so I guess this is a good idea (for GHOP, right ?) Yep! -> >From wha

[Python-Dev] Converting tests to unittest/doctest?

2007-12-21 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, a bit of grep'ping and personal examination discovered the following tests in trunk/ that could be converted to unittest or doctests. Any thoughts, pro or con? (I understand from Brett that the goal is to eradicate "old-style" tests, by which I think he means tests that do not use unitte

Re: [Python-Dev] Spurious Buildbot Reports

2007-12-19 Thread Titus Brown
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:58:35PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: -> On Dec 19, 2007 4:33 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -> > The bots are kicking-off so many false alarms that it is becoming difficult to tell whether a check-in genuinely broke a build. -> > -> > At the root of the p

Re: [Python-Dev] Split up the c-api documentation in smaller files?

2007-12-07 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote: -> Christian Heimes wrote: -> > Good afternoon everybody! -> > -> > The new C API documentation contains some large files: -> > -> > 105K abstract.html -> > 300K concrete.html -> > 183K newtypes.html -> > -> > The concrete.html takes

[Python-Dev] Memory benchmarking?

2007-11-29 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, is there a good, or standard memory benchmarking system for Python? pybench doesn't return significantly different results when Python 2.6 is compiled with pymalloc and without pymalloc. Thinking on it, I'm not too surprised -- pybench probably benchmarks a lot of stuff -- but some guidan

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Google Highly Open Participation Contest

2007-11-27 Thread Titus Brown
detailed and specific way, we'd love to have them. Here are the new task guidelines: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/NewTaskGuidelines and I'm happy to write up the tasks if people send me good ideas. cheers, --titus - Forwarded message from T

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-24 Thread Titus Brown
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:23:06AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: -> On Nov 24, 2007 6:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -> > Thanks, Titus. Both the doctest and trace tests pass with your change. -> > Checked back in. I didn't run the full test suite, as test_sqlite causes a -> > bus error on m

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-23 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:32:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> -> Brett> Looks like Skip's r59137 fix for working with tracing has led to -> Brett> test_doctest to be broken on 2.5 and the trunk (at least -> Brett> according to the buildbots). Can someone either revert the ->

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-25 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote: -> I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that -> several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1) -> courses based on Python, among them: -> Georgia Tech -> CMU -> Bryn Mawr It's been

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows buildbot (Was: buildbot failure in x86 W2k trunk)

2007-05-23 Thread Titus Brown
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:08:52PM -0700, Trent Mick wrote: -> Thomas Heller wrote: -> >> Are there others that can provide a Windows buildbot? It would probably -> >> be good to have two -- and a WinXP one would be good. -> > -> > How much work is it to set one up, and to maintain it? Maybe I c

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