Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-12 Thread Mateusz Paprocki
Hi, On 21 January 2013 09:15, Aaron Meurer asmeu...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking at what benefits we would get from dropping Python 2.5 support (other than the obvious no longer having to test on it). If we dropped support, we would be able to use any feature that was introduced in Python

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-12 Thread Aaron Meurer
We could add OrderedDict to compatibility. A pure Python version probably won't be as fast as the one in 2.7, but it will be functional. For class decorators, I agree. We also have the same issue with the recent pull request that lets you decorate functions and classes to say that their doctests

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Bachmann
On 12.04.2013 23:02, Aaron Meurer wrote: We could add OrderedDict to compatibility. A pure Python version probably won't be as fast as the one in 2.7, but it will be functional. For class decorators, I agree. We also have the same issue with the recent pull request that lets you decorate

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-01-22 Thread Stefan Krastanov
Concerning the ABC module: It seems to be the correct way to do what we are doing now with all the `is_Whatever` properties. obj.is_Whatever == True - isinstance(obj, WhateverABC) All the automatic correctness checks for virtual methods are nice as well. Moreover mpmath has a barebones support

[sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-01-21 Thread Aaron Meurer
I was looking at what benefits we would get from dropping Python 2.5 support (other than the obvious no longer having to test on it). If we dropped support, we would be able to use any feature that was introduced in Python 2.6. Here's a page that lists all of them:

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-01-21 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Am 21.01.2013 09:15, schrieb Aaron Meurer: I was looking at what benefits we would get from dropping Python 2.5 support (other than the obvious no longer having to test on it). If we dropped support, we would be able to use any feature that was introduced in Python 2.6. Here's a page that

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-01-21 Thread Roberto Colistete Jr.
Em 21-01-2013 06:15, Aaron Meurer escreveu: I was looking at what benefits we would get from dropping Python 2.5 support (other than the obvious no longer having to test on it). If we dropped support, we would be able to use any feature that was introduced in Python 2.6. Here's a page that

Re: [sympy] Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-01-21 Thread Aaron Meurer
On Jan 21, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Roberto Colistete Jr. roberto.colist...@gmail.com wrote: Em 21-01-2013 06:15, Aaron Meurer escreveu: I was looking at what benefits we would get from dropping Python 2.5 support (other than the obvious no longer having to test on it). If we dropped support, we