Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/01/2014 13:34, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : Ned : this has already been explained and illustrated. jmf This has never been explained and illustrated. Roughly 30 minutes ago Terry Reedy once again completely shot your argu

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/8/2014 4:59 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [responding to me] The FSR acts more as an coding scheme selector That is what PEP 393 describes and what I and many others have said. The FSR saves memory by selecting from three choices the most compact coding scheme for each string. I ask a

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-08 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 8 janvier 2014 01:02:22 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : > On 1/7/2014 9:54 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 1/7/2014 8:34 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : > > > > > >>> Memory: Point 2. A *design goal* of FSR was to s

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/7/2014 9:54 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/7/2014 8:34 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : Memory: Point 2. A *design goal* of FSR was to save memory relative to UTF-32, which is what you apparently prefer. Your examples show that

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-07 Thread Tim Delaney
On 8 January 2014 00:34, wrote: > > Point 2: This Flexible String Representation does no > "effectuate" any memory optimization. It only succeeds > to do the opposite of what a corrrect usage of utf* > do. > UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding that uses less memory to encode code points with lowe

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-07 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/7/2014 8:34 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : Memory: Point 2. A *design goal* of FSR was to save memory relative to UTF-32, which is what you apparently prefer. Your examples show that FSF successfully met its design goal. Bu

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-07 Thread wxjmfauth
Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 23:14:07 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : > On 1/5/2014 9:23 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 23:46:49 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : > > >> On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > >>> And I could add, I *never* saw once one soul, who

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 01:54, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: (However, to the extent that Amazon has gained monopoly power over the book market, that reasoning may not apply. Amazon is not *technically* a monopoly, but they are clearly well on the way to be

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > (However, to the extent that Amazon has gained monopoly power over the book > market, that reasoning may not apply. Amazon is not *technically* a > monopoly, but they are clearly well on the way to becoming one, at which > point the custome

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Roy Smith wrote: >> > I've got a new sorting algorithm which is guaranteed to cut 10 seconds >> > off the sorting time (i.e. $0.10 per package). The problem is, it >> > makes a mistake 1% of the time.

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chris Angelico wrote about Amazon: > And yet I can't disagree with your final conclusion. Empirical > evidence goes against my incredulous declaration that "surely this is > a bad idea" - according to XKCD 1165, they're kicking out nearly a > cubic meter a SECOND of packages. Yes, but judging

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/5/2014 11:51 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >>> >>> Amazon's (short-term) goal is to increase their market share by >>> undercutting everybody on price. They have implemented a box-packing

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/5/2014 11:51 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Roy Smith wrote: Amazon's (short-term) goal is to increase their market share by undercutting everybody on price. They have implemented a box-packing algorithm which clearly has a bug in it. You are complaining that t

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/5/2014 9:23 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: My examples are ONLY ILLUSTRATING, this FSR is wrong by design, Let me answer you a different way. If FSR is 'wrong by design', so are the alternatives. Hence, the claim is, in itself, useless as a guide to choosing. The choices: * Keep the p

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/5/2014 9:23 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 23:46:49 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: And I could add, I *never* saw once one soul, who is explaining what I'm doing wrong in the gazillion of examples I gave on this list.

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Roy Smith
Chris Angelico wrote: > Can you really run a business by not caring about your customers? http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > Amazon's (short-term) goal is to increase their market share by > undercutting everybody on price. They have implemented a box-packing > algorithm which clearly has a bug in it. You are complaining that they > failed to deliver your purchase in

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > I've got a new sorting algorithm which is guaranteed to cut 10 seconds > > off the sorting time (i.e. $0.10 per package). The problem is, it makes > > a mistake 1% of the time. > > That's a valid line of

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article <52c94fec$0$29973$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > How do we tell when software is buggy? We compare what it actually does to > the promised behaviour, or expected behaviour, and if there is a > discrepancy, we call it a bug. We don't compare it to some id

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 1/5/14 9:23 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 23:46:49 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I do not mind to be considered as an idiot, but I'm definitively not blind. And I could add, I *never* saw once one soul, who is explaini

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread wxjmfauth
Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 23:46:49 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit : > On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 15:17:40 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > > > > >> any, and Python has only one, idiot like jmf who completely > > > > Chris, I appreciate the many

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Stefan Behnel
Johannes Bauer, 05.01.2014 13:14: > I've pushed the > migration of *large* projects at work to Python3 when support was pretty > early and it really wasn't a huge deal. I think there are two sides to consider. Those who can switch their code base to Py3 and be happy (as you did, apparently), and t

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/12/2013 09:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html. I quote: "...perhaps a brave group of volunteers will stand up and fork Python 2, and take the incremental steps forward. This will have to remain just an idle sugg

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > - "The Unix 'locate' command doesn't do a live search of the file > system because that would be too slow, it uses a snapshot of the > state of the file system." > > > Is locate buggy because it tells you what files existed the last tim

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> Fast is never more important than correct. It's just that sometimes you >> might compromise a little (or a lot) on what counts as correct in order >> for some speed. > > Is this statement even falsifiable? Can

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 31.12.2013 10:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html. > > I quote: > > "...perhaps a brave group of volunteers will stand up and fork Python 2, and > take the incremental steps forward. This will have to remain just

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread wxjmfauth
Le dimanche 5 janvier 2014 03:54:29 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > > > wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > >> The very interesting aspect in the way you are holding > > >> unicodes (strings). By comparing Python 2 with Python 3.

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Fast is never more important than correct. It's just that sometimes you > might compromise a little (or a lot) on what counts as correct in order for > some speed. Is this statement even falsifiable? Can you conceive of a circumstance where

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > I've got a new sorting algorithm which is guaranteed to cut 10 seconds > off the sorting time (i.e. $0.10 per package). The problem is, it makes > a mistake 1% of the time. That's a valid line of argument in big business, these days, because we'

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Roy Smith wrote: > I wrote: >> > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes >> > fast is more important than correct. > > In article <52c8c301$0$29998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Fast is never more important than correct. > > Sur

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > > I wrote: > >> > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes > >> > fast is more important than correct. > > > > In article <52c8c301$0$29998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > >

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > I wrote: >> > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes >> > fast is more important than correct. > > In article <52c8c301$0$29998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Fast is never more i

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Roy Smith
I wrote: > > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes > > fast is more important than correct. In article <52c8c301$0$29998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Fast is never more important than correct. Sure it is. Let's imagine you're b

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > >> The very interesting aspect in the way you are holding >> unicodes (strings). By comparing Python 2 with Python 3.3, >> you are comparing utf-8 with the the internal "representation" >> of Python 3.3 (the flex

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > The very interesting aspect in the way you are holding > unicodes (strings). By comparing Python 2 with Python 3.3, > you are comparing utf-8 with the the internal "representation" > of Python 3.3 (the flexible string represenation). This is incorrect. Python 2 has ne

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread MRAB
On 2014-01-05 02:32, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: But regardless of how fast your path-finder algorithm might become, you're unlikely to be satisfied with a solution that travels around in a circle from A to B a million times then shoots off strai

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But regardless of how fast your path-finder algorithm might become, you're > unlikely to be satisfied with a solution that travels around in a circle > from A to B a million times then shoots off straight to Z without passing > through any o

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in >> preference to something that is correct but slow? > > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes > fast is more important than correct. I know somebod

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 15:17:40 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > > >>> any, and Python has only one, idiot like jmf who completely > > > Chris, I appreciate the many contributions you make

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/4/2014 2:10 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 15:17:40 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : any, and Python has only one, idiot like jmf who completely Chris, I appreciate the many contributions you make to this list, but that does not exempt you from out standard of c

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread wxjmfauth
Le samedi 4 janvier 2014 15:17:40 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > > > In article , > > > Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > > > >> Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in > > >> preference to something that is correct but slow? > >

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 1/4/14 9:17 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Mark Lawrence wrote: Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in preference to something that is correct but slow? I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes,

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in >> preference to something that is correct but slow? > > I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes > fast is more importan

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Mark Lawrence wrote: > Surely everybody prefers fast but incorrect code in > preference to something that is correct but slow? I realize I'm taking this statement out of context, but yes, sometimes fast is more important than correct. Sometimes the other way around. -- https://

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-04 Thread wxjmfauth
Le vendredi 3 janvier 2014 12:14:41 UTC+1, Robin Becker a écrit : > On 02/01/2014 18:37, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 1/2/2014 12:36 PM, Robin Becker wrote: > > > > > >> I just spent a large amount of effort porting reportlab to a version > > >> which works with both python2.7 and python3.3. I h

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/01/2014 17:36, Robin Becker wrote: On 31/12/2013 15:41, Roy Smith wrote: I'm using 2.7 in production. I realize that at some point we'll need to upgrade to 3.x. We'll keep putting that off as long as the "effort + dependencies + risk" metric exceeds the "perceived added value" metric.

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/01/2014 22:00, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/3/2014 7:28 AM, Robin Becker wrote: On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP should run the latter. python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc that's

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/3/2014 7:28 AM, Robin Becker wrote: On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP should run the latter. python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc that's almost irrelevant for the sort of tests w

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/03/2014 02:24 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: I worked that out with a sheet of paper and a pencil. The pencil was a little help, but the paper was three sheets in the wind. Beautiful! -- ~Ethan~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > I was doing a project a while ago importing 20-something million records > into a MySQL database. Little did I know that FOUR of those records > contained astral characters (which MySQL, at least the version I was > using, couldn't handle). > > M

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Robin Becker wrote: > On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: > > There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP > > should run the latter. > > python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc that's > almost irrelevant for the sort of

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Robin Becker
On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP should run the latter. python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc that's almost irrelevant for the sort of tests we're doing which are mostly simple engli

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/01/2014 23:57, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. Running a test suite is a completely broken benchmarking methodology. You should isolate workloads you are interested in and write a benchmark simulating them. I'm certain you're right, but individual bits of code like generating our r

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/01/2014 18:37, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/2/2014 12:36 PM, Robin Becker wrote: I just spent a large amount of effort porting reportlab to a version which works with both python2.7 and python3.3. I have a large number of functions etc which handle the conversions that differ between the two p

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/01/2014 18:25, David Hutto wrote: Just because it's 3.3 doesn't matter...the main interest is in compatibility. Secondly, you used just one piece of code, which could be a fluke, try others, and check the PEP. You need to realize that evebn the older versions are benig worked on, and they h

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:10 PM, wrote: > It's time to understand the Character Encoding Models > and the math behind it. > Unicode does not differ from any other coding scheme. > > How? With a sheet of paper and a pencil. > One plus one is two, therefore Python is better than Haskell. Four time

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread wxjmfauth
It's time to understand the Character Encoding Models and the math behind it. Unicode does not differ from any other coding scheme. How? With a sheet of paper and a pencil. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/2/2014 11:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Robin Becker wrote: For fairly sensible reasons we changed the internal default to use unicode rather than bytes. After doing all that and making the tests compatible etc etc I have a version which runs in both and passes all its tests. However, for

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Robin Becker wrote: > For fairly sensible reasons we changed the internal default to use unicode > rather than bytes. After doing all that and making the tests compatible > etc etc I have a version which runs in both and passes all its tests. > However, for whatever reason the python 3.3 version r

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, Robin Becker reportlab.com> writes: > > For fairly sensible reasons we changed the internal default to use unicode > rather than bytes. After doing all that and making the tests compatible etc etc > I have a version which runs in both and passes all its tests. However, for > whatever rea

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/2/2014 12:36 PM, Robin Becker wrote: I just spent a large amount of effort porting reportlab to a version which works with both python2.7 and python3.3. I have a large number of functions etc which handle the conversions that differ between the two pythons. I am imagine that this was not

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-02 Thread David Hutto
Just because it's 3.3 doesn't matter...the main interest is in compatibility. Secondly, you used just one piece of code, which could be a fluke, try others, and check the PEP. You need to realize that evebn the older versions are benig worked on, and they have to be refined. So if you have a proble

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-02 Thread Robin Becker
On 31/12/2013 15:41, Roy Smith wrote: I'm using 2.7 in production. I realize that at some point we'll need to upgrade to 3.x. We'll keep putting that off as long as the "effort + dependencies + risk" metric exceeds the "perceived added value" metric. We too are using python 2.4 - 2.7 in produc

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/12/2013 15:41, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Antoine Pitrou wrote: Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: I expect that as excuses for not migrating get fewer, and the deadline for Python 2.7 end-of-life starts to loom closer, more and more haters^W Concerned People will whine about

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > To be honest, the "perceived added value" in 3.x is pretty low for us. > What we're running now works. Switching to 3.x isn't going to increase > our monthly average users, or our retention rate, or decrease our COGS, > or increase our revenue.

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: > > > > I expect that as excuses for not migrating get fewer, and the deadline for > > Python 2.7 end-of-life starts to loom closer, more and more haters^W > > Concerned People will whine about the lack of version 2.8

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: > > I expect that as excuses for not migrating get fewer, and the deadline for > Python 2.7 end-of-life starts to loom closer, more and more haters^W > Concerned People will whine about the lack of version 2.8 and ask for > *somebody else* to fork Python. >

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Wow -- another steaming pile! Mark, are you going for a record? ;) Indeed. Every post that disagrees with my opinion and understanding of the situation is complete BS and a conspiracy to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Henceforth I wil

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Mark Lawrence wrote: > http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html. I quote: "...perhaps a brave group of volunteers will stand up and fork Python 2, and take the incremental steps forward. This will have to remain just an idle suggestion, as I'm not volunteering myself." I ex

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to >> some of you. [...] > I'd like to know where Alex gets the idea that the transition of Python 2 > to 3 was supposed to be a five year pl

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 22:38, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don't know whethe

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/12/2013 01:09, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/30/2013 08:25 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: Wow -- another steaming pile! Mark, are you going for a record? ;) Indeed. Every post that disagrees with my opinion and understanding of the situation is complete BS and a conspiracy to spr

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > You never know, we might even end up with a thread whereby the discussion is > Python, the whole Python and nothing but the Python. What, on python-list??! [1] That would be a silly idea. We should avoid such theories with all vigor. ChrisA

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 22:38, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don't know whethe

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >> On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to >>

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don't know whether to thank you for the link, or shout at y

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don't know whether to thank you for the link, or shout at you for sending eyeballs to look at such a pile

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to > some of you. I don't know whether to thank you for the link, or shout at you for sending eyeballs to look at such a pile of steaming bullshit. I'd like to know wh