Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Windows 2000

2010-03-01 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I don't recall whether we have already decided about continued support for Windows 2000. If not, I'd like to propose that we phase out that support: the Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] Another mercurial repo

2010-02-22 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Feb 22, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 23:15, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good, thanks It's right here: ssh://h...@hg.python.org/repos/distutils2 The checkout URL for non-ssh read-only access is:

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-22 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Reid Kleckner wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:07 PM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: To what extent would it be possible to use (conditionally) use full ahead-of-time compilation as well as JIT? It would be possible to do this, but it doesn't have

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-22 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Chris Bergstresser wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Tres Seaver tsea...@palladion.com wrote: Generally, that's not going to be the case. But the broader point--that you've no longer got an especially good idea of what's taking time to run in your

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 391 - Please Vote!

2010-01-14 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote: From: Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com I'm generally +1 - but given I know that Django 1.2 is slated to implement something somewhat similar, I'm interested to hear how this proposal meshes with their plan(s).. Django 1.2 will most likely

Re: [Python-Dev] bug triage

2010-01-06 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 06/01/2010 11:19, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, Is there a high volume of incoming bugs to the Python tracker? If so, I'd like to help with triaging. I think

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

2010-01-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Jan 3, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Requires-Dist: pywin32 (1.0); sys.platform == 'win32' Requires-Dist: [Windows] pywin32 1.0+ That's simpler, shorter, and less ambiguous. Easier to parse for package managers. Don't you want the PEP to complete? Why this

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

2009-12-28 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote: The dependency declarations are *not* Python language syntax, and there is no need to consider Python language syntax in defining them. Agreed. We're also not going to be writing an operating system with them; just simple version range

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

2009-12-28 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:17 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote: The dependency declarations are *not* Python language syntax, and there is no need to consider Python language

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

2009-12-27 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 27, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com writes: This was ambiguous because it was unclear, as MvL stated, if 2.5 was just 2.5.0 or included versions like 2.5.1 or

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2009-12-14 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk writes: I also use -v for verbose in a few scripts (including options to unittest when run with python -m). I've seen -V as a common abbreviation for --version (I've just used this with Mono for

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2009-12-14 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Steven Bethard wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Olemis Lang ole...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Michael Foord On 14/12/2009 19:04, Ian Bicking wrote: Another thing I just noticed is that argparse using -v for version where optparse

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2009-12-14 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Steven Bethard wrote: But yes, it's a poll right now on the argparse website (http://code.google.com/p/argparse/) and if you feel strongly about it, please add your vote there (rather than here). I don't even understand what the poll question is asking. S

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2009-12-14 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com writes: Please read the PEP if you haven't, particularly the Why isn't the functionality just being added to optparse? section. I don't believe it is sensible to re-implement all of optparse. What

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 386 for addition

2009-12-10 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Malthe Borch wrote: On 12/8/09 6:16 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: I believe that the current situation is as close to consensus as we will get on distutils-sig, and in the interests of avoiding months of further discussion which won't take things any further, I propose

[Python-Dev] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-07 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net wrote: I think buildbot-style test runs for PyPI packages would raise average package quality on PyPI. Please excuse the

Re: [Python-Dev] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-07 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 7, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Lyon david.l...@preisshare.net

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-04 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 4, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: 2009/11/3 sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com: On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:26 PM, James Y Knight wrote: It really sounds like you're saying that switching to 3.x isn't worth the cost to you, but you want to force people (including yourself

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-04 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 4, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carl Trachte wrote: On 11/4/09, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the 3.x line should just be put out of our misery, merged back to 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, and proceed as Glyph suggested in passing with increasing levels of deprecation until it just

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: BeautifulSoup, which I use every day, is one such product. Since the crappy old SMGL parser's gone, BeautifulSoup uses the one that's left in Python 3

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Barry Warsaw wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:48 PM, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: A better language, i.e. Python 3.x, will become better faster without dragging the 2.x series out any longer. If Python 2.7 becomes the last of the 2.x series

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:55 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: There is also little documentation on how to port a significant C codebase to py3k. Now there's a good Summer of Code project: to produce a pre-processor

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: P.S. I found it curious that one of the strongest proponents of killing 2.x also mentioned that he has never written a line of 3.x code. Since this discussion is a matter of great consequence, I would hope that advocates will only

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: I'd just like to mention that the scientific community is highly dependent on NumPy. As long as NumPy is not ported to Py3k, migration is out of the question. Porting NumPy is not a trivial issue. It might take a complete rewrite of the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, James Y Knight f...@fuhm.net wrote: If that happens, it's not true

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I'm not ready for that yet. I think there's plenty of time before we have to agree to such a bleak view. In the mean time let's do something practical like help NumPy port to Py3k. Or, for example, Django... See

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, James Y Knight f...@fuhm.net wrote: If that happens, it's not true that there's *nowhere* to go. A solution would be to discard 3.x as a failed experiment, take everything that is useful from it and port

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Arc Riley wrote: The main thing holding back the community are lazy and/or obstinate package maintainers. If they spent half the time they've put into complaining about Py3 into actually working to upgrade their code they'd be done now. That's an

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Arc Riley arcriley at gmail.com writes: +1 on ending with 2.6.I'm the maintainer of 3rd party Python 3-only packages and have ported a few modules that we needed with some help from the 2to3 tool. It's really not a big deal - and Py3

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:42 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net writes: Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com writes: TurboGears - Python 3 currently unsupported, no timescale given TurboGears is Pylons-based, so I suppose the actual question is when Pylons gets ported. And

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-03 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: sstein...@gmail.com schrieb: On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Arc Riley wrote: The main thing holding back the community are lazy and/or obstinate package maintainers. If they spent half the time they've put into complaining about Py3

Re: [Python-Dev] EC2 buildslaves

2009-11-02 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: exarkun at twistedmatrix.com writes: Starting with a mainstream distro doesn't seem like a bad idea. For example, there isn't currently a 32bit Ubuntu (any version) slave. That would be a nice gap to fill in, right? I've setup a

[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-02 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
Not that anyone has asked yet, but here's my opinion on two issues that have been raised on the python-dev mailing list lately: +1 on 2.7 release with as much 3.0 easy-port goo as is practicable without delaying the product beyond the tentative schedule. Sooner would, of course, be

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-02 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:26 PM, James Y Knight wrote: It really sounds like you're saying that switching to 3.x isn't worth the cost to you, but you want to force people (including yourself) to do so anyways, because ...? Because that's the future of Python, where the developers who make

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-02 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:48 PM, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: A better language, i.e. Python 3.x, will become better faster without dragging the 2.x series out any longer. If Python 2.7 becomes the last of the 2.x series, then I personally favor

Re: [Python-Dev] Refactoring installation schemes

2009-10-28 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Michael Foord wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello, Since the addition of PEP 370, (per-user site packages), site.py and distutils/command/install.py are *both* providing the various installation directories for Python, depending on the system

Re: [Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it

2009-10-27 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Terry Reedy wrote more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more: This topic needs its own flippin' newsgroup. S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it

2009-10-27 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: sstein...@gmail.com wrote: This topic needs its own flippin' newsgroup. You could have said just that, appropriate or not, without dumping on anyone in particular. I was not trying to dump on you in particular, I picked a random message

Re: [Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

2009-10-26 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: -Original Message- From: python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames@python.org [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames@python.org] On Behalf Of Sturla Molden time.sleep should generate a priority request to

Re: [Python-Dev] Reworking the GIL

2009-10-26 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:45 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: Despite what I said above, however, I would also take a default position against adding any kind of more advanced scheduling system here. It would, perhaps, make sense to expose the APIs for controlling the platform scheduler,

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:47 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: These are actually two issues: a) where do we get buildbot hardware and operators? I've been trying to get some feedback about firing up buildbots on Cloud Servers for a while now and haven't had much luck. I'd love to find a way of

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:50 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: Actually setting one up in the first place might take a bit longer, since it involves installing the necessary software and making sure everything's set up right, but the actual slave configuration itself is one command:

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 10:05 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: First, there are now a multitude of cloud hosting providers which will operate a slave machine for you. BuildBot has even begun to support this deployment use-case by allowing you to start up and shut down vms on demand to

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I've been trying to get some feedback about firing up buildbots on Cloud Servers for a while now and haven't had much luck. I'd love to find a way of having buildbots come to life, report to the mother ship, do the build, then go away

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I don't need to know that it works on every checkin For us, that is a fairly important requirement, though. Reports get more and more useless if they aren't instantaneous. Sometimes, people check something in just to see how the build

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

2009-10-25 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Only turning on the slave occasionally makes it useless. For certain use cases; not mine. S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] readonly __doc__

2009-10-22 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance rules. Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs. Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it not normal because it isn't? Any

Re: [Python-Dev] readonly __doc__

2009-10-22 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance rules. Maybe we could add

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? S On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: Hi, as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module: http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? I found previous discussions about Decimal in C on python-dev, that's why used this list. python-ideas: This list is to contain discussion of speculative

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: I still need to do some more tests, I didn't have time to try the various projects under win32. It's planned to night. The tests are consisting of compiling and insatling a dozain of projects