Re: [Python-Dev] adding _Py prefix to names in 2.5.1?

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 1/16/07, Neal Norwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://python.org/sf/1637022 points out a problem caused by the lack of a _Py prefix on Ellipsis. Most (all?) of the new AST names are not prefixed. These are all meant to be internal names. Are there any issues with changing this? If we do

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] dict.items as attributes [Was: The bytes type]

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Wouters
On 1/16/07, Jim Jewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than dict.items (and .keys and .values) returning a non-list, are there any other cases where the Py3K idiom can't already be used in (or at least backported to) Py 2.x? Well, there is that bit where strings are all unicode, including all

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] dict.items as attributes [Was: The bytes type]

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Jewett
On 1/17/07, Thomas Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/07, Jim Jewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than dict.items (and .keys and .values) returning a non-list, are there any other cases where the Py3K idiom can't already be used in (or at least backported to) Py 2.x? The aim for

[Python-Dev] Pythn 2.5 buildbots do not build anymore?

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Heller
Why don't the Python 2.5 buildbots build anymore? http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/2.5/ Thanks, Thomas ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] Testers wanted: mailbox.py bugfix

2007-01-17 Thread A.M. Kuchling
http://www.python.org/sf/1599254 is a bug in the mailbox.py module that affects single-file mailbox formats (mbox, Babyl, MMDF) and can cause data loss. A proposed fix, mailbox-unified-patch, is attached to the bug. If you use mailbox.py for modifying mailboxes in the above formats, can you

Re: [Python-Dev] Testers wanted: mailbox.py bugfix

2007-01-17 Thread Charles Cazabon
A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.python.org/sf/1599254 is a bug in the mailbox.py module that affects single-file mailbox formats (mbox, Babyl, MMDF) and can cause data loss. I can't speak for MMDF or Babyl, but it's a well-known requirement that all programs on a system must

Re: [Python-Dev] The bytes type

2007-01-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:52, James Y Knight wrote: Yes, this is it. As a refinement: if the New Way can easily be backported to 2.5, Um - 2.5 is _done_. Released. In maintenance mode. New features will not be getting backported to a 2.5.x release. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] The bytes type

2007-01-17 Thread James Y Knight
On Jan 17, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:52, James Y Knight wrote: Yes, this is it. As a refinement: if the New Way can easily be backported to 2.5, Um - 2.5 is _done_. Released. In maintenance mode. New features will not be getting backported to a

Re: [Python-Dev] Deletion order when leaving a scope?

2007-01-17 Thread Josiah Carlson
Larry Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran a quickie experiment and determined: when leaving a scope, variables are deleted FIFO, aka in the same order they were created. This surprised me; I'd expected them to be deleted LIFO, aka last first. Why is it thus? Is this behavior an

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythn 2.5 buildbots do not build anymore?

2007-01-17 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 1/17/07, Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't the Python 2.5 buildbots build anymore? It looks like there were no checkins that caused a build. Changing doc or Misc/NEWS is excluded. I'm guessing that there is a bug in buildbot that causes it to miss any changes from svnmerge.