Re: [Python-Dev] Request for dev permissions

2005-05-31 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Raymond Hettinger wrote: [Reinhold Birkenfeld] would anybody mind if I was given permissions on the tracker and CVS, for fixing small things like bug #1202475. I feel that I can help you others out a bit with this and I promise I won't change the interpreter to accept braces... Let's

Re: [Python-Dev] Old Python version categories in Bug Tracker

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
Brett C. wrote: Facundo Batista wrote: On 5/30/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So Python 2.2.2 can become Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained). Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Brett C.] Been rather quite around here lately so I just wanted to do a quick check to see what the status is on PEPs 342 and 343. I noticed Nick's PEP is still not up. Probably too busy with that fix for genexps in the AST branch, huh, Nick? =) [Nick Coghlan] Something like

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:12 AM 5/31/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: uncertainty of the possibility to call close() from the destructor may have slowed that down. If you're talking about the bit about __del__ not working when hanging off a cycle, my apologies for creating that confusion, I misunderstood Tim's

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Guido] uncertainty of the possibility to call close() from the destructor may have slowed that down. [Phillip] If you're talking about the bit about __del__ not working when hanging off a cycle, my apologies for creating that confusion, I misunderstood Tim's post. No, I'm not talking about

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 12:03 PM 5/31/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: Yes, the generator does clear its f_back when it's suspended. I realize this won't fix all your worries; I just want to rule out this one *particular* form of cycle as a possibility; i.e., to show that mere reference to a generator-iterator

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Raymond Hettinger
If Raymond would rather defer to me, I can give it a shot in a revised version of PEP 343, Thanks, that would be great. The decimal conversation used up a lot of my available cycles. Raymond ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 342/343 status?

2005-05-31 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Guido] Yes, the generator does clear its f_back when it's suspended. [Phillip] I realize this won't fix all your worries; I just want to rule out this one *particular* form of cycle as a possibility; i.e., to show that mere reference to a generator-iterator in a frame does not create a