Re: [Python-Dev] In-place operators

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
Raymond Hettinger wrote: [Martin v. Löwis] I would object to their removal, though, because it would hurt my sense of symmetry. I wasn't going to propose removal. If everyone had agreed that the operator in-place functions were problematic, I was going to suggest moving their docs to

Re: [Python-Dev] In-place operators

2009-03-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Certainly, the doc string is wrong: isub(a, b) -- Same as a -= b. That's not quite the same - you would have to write a = isub(a, b) -- Same as a -= b. It seems a perfectly fine solution is simply to fix the docstring, exactly like that: a = isub(a, b) -- Same

[Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
Hey guys/gals Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective students is a link to the PEP index. So let's make this year

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 at 16:56, Arc Riley wrote: Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective students is a link to the PEP

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com: Hey guys/gals Thanks for organizing this! Summer of Code is ramping up.  Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello Arc, Arc Riley arcriley at gmail.com writes: I've seen and heard that a lot of work is still needed on http://svn.python.org /view/python/trunk both during the 3.1 release cycle, optimization possible all over the place. Well, first, it's too late for 3.1, which will (should) be out

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Terry Reedy
R. David Murray wrote: How about improving 2to3? Seems like that could be an interesting, challenging, useful, and rewarding project :). Or the much requested 3to2 using the same tools. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu writes: Or the much requested 3to2 using the same tools. I didn't know there was such a request. I thought it was only a PyPy April fool. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
I've heard from four people that improving 2to3 would be a great project (plus many more suggesting port X to Python 3 as project ideas). Note the SoC timeline; http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but perhaps 3.1.1? 3.2? We

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com: I've heard from four people that improving 2to3 would be a great project (plus many more suggesting port X to Python 3 as project ideas). Ok. That's excellent. Note the SoC timeline;

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC: Optimize Python3

2009-03-18 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, There are some very interresting issues about long type optimization: faster long multiplication http://bugs.python.org/issue3944 Asymptotically faster divmod and str(long) http://bugs.python.org/issue3451 Use 30-bit digits instead of 15-bit digits for Python integers.

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC: security

2009-03-18 Thread Victor Stinner
Tav organized a challenge to prove that its simple idea could be used to write a new restricted python module. Restart Python security is an huge project, but also an interesting project. http://tav.espians.com/a-challenge-to-break-python-security.html http://wiki.python.org/moin/Security --

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
Note the SoC timeline; http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but perhaps 3.1.1? 3.2? Well, there won't be any major changes in 3.1.1, but 3.2 is definitely open. Cool, these are of course details you can work out

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com: Note the SoC timeline; http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but perhaps 3.1.1? 3.2? Well, there won't be any major changes in 3.1.1, but 3.2 is definitely open. Cool, these

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:25PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: - Rather than performance, I think some more interesting areas would be related to - some of the standard library modules. For instance, the unittest module could - welcome some new features (test discovery, support for skipped

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
While working on the core is admirable, I think gsoc would provide an opportunity to port important Python libraries to 3.x. It's important to remember that doing ports helps the core immensely by uncovering 2to3 and py3k bugs. Hello. It's a very noble task to have important python

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Brett Cannon
2009/3/18 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu R. David Murray wrote: How about improving 2to3? Seems like that could be an interesting, challenging, useful, and rewarding project :). Or the much requested 3to2 using the same tools. I'm not in a position to mentor this, but I too think this

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.comwrote: I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining libraries instead of just proposing let's make some poor student port it to py3k, but I might be just wrong, I don't know. I agree. Part of Summer of

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 14:56, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.orgwrote: 2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com: Note the SoC timeline; http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but perhaps 3.1.1? 3.2? Well,

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Brett Cannon
2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.comwrote: I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining libraries instead of just proposing let's make some poor student port it to py3k, but I might be just wrong, I

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote: I would double-check Benjamin can do this since I don't think he will be 18 by the time GSoC starts. The FAQ at http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#mentor_eligibilityseems to suggest it

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hey guys/gals Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective students is a link to the PEP index. So let's make this

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
As a project maintainer I wouldn't want an intern being the most familiar person with our Py3 migration, I'd rather students stick with new features or optimization and coordinate the migration process as a group-wide effort. Without help, it is going to take a long time to get many

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com wrote: Without help, it is going to take a long time to get many packages converted to 3.x. I don't disagree, I just don't want to volunteer projects for something they don't want. Unless I misunderstand the situation, PIL

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Guilherme Polo
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey guys/gals Summer of Code is ramping up.  Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
C. Titus Brown wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:25PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: - Rather than performance, I think some more interesting areas would be related to - some of the standard library modules. For instance, the unittest module could - welcome some new features (test

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/18 Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brett Cannon br...@python.org wrote: I would double-check Benjamin can do this since I don't think he will be 18 by the time GSoC starts. The FAQ at

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-18 Thread Georg Brandl
Benjamin Peterson schrieb: 2009/3/16 Brett Cannon br...@python.org: At this point importlib is done for its public API for Python 3.1. That means it's time to turn my attention to making sure the semantics of import are well documented. But where to put all of the details? The language

Re: [Python-Dev] Non-Core project: IDLE

2009-03-18 Thread Terry Reedy
IDLE needs lots of attention -- more than any one experienced person is likely to have ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Non-Core project: IDLE

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: IDLE needs lots of attention -- more than any one experienced person is likely to have I've actually heard this from several people, IDLE on Py3 etc Who would be a good person to mentor such a project?

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Holden
Arc Riley wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com mailto:fij...@gmail.com wrote: I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining libraries instead of just proposing let's make some poor student port it to py3k, but I might

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects: 3to2

2009-03-18 Thread Terry Reedy
Antoine Pitrou wrote: Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu writes: Or the much requested 3to2 using the same tools. I didn't know there was such a request. I thought it was only a PyPy April fool. Some of the people who need to support both late 2.x and 3.x would prefer to write 3.x code and

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Holden
Arc Riley wrote: I've heard from four people that improving 2to3 would be a great project (plus many more suggesting port X to Python 3 as project ideas). Note the SoC timeline; http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline So maybe it won't work for 3.1, but

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects: 3to2

2009-03-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu writes: Some of the people who need to support both late 2.x and 3.x would prefer to write 3.x code and backport. The OP of a current python-list thread asked whether there was any way to write something like @alias('__nonzero__') def

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Arc Riley wrote: The process is as follows; we're compiling ideas for http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009 and getting mentors signed up at http://socghop.appspot.com/ Any chance that we can keep http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009 light on markup? I simply can't add a 'tidy

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Arc Riley
Feel free to email wi...@bluesock.org or me with your ideas if the markup is difficult to work with. We've been on wiki duty all afternoon. description, any specific skills they'll need (special library, compiler theory, etc), what mentor should they talk to if they're interested. The markup

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects: 3to2

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/18 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net: class C() to class C(object) __metaclass__ = type Or even better: just inherit from object in 3.0 and 2.x. :) -- Regards, Benjamin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective students is a link to the PEP index. So let's make this year different.

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Guilherme Polo
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: Summer of Code is ramping up.  Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective students is a link to the PEP index. So let's make this year different.

[Python-Dev] what's new in 3.1 anyone?

2009-03-18 Thread Benjamin Peterson
It seems Andrew will be doing What's new in Python 2.7? again, but we don't seem to have a volunteer to do the 3.1 version? Would anyone like to volunteer? -- Regards, Benjamin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] what's new in 3.1 anyone?

2009-03-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Benjamin Peterson] It seems Andrew will be doing What's new in Python 2.7? again, but we don't seem to have a volunteer to do the 3.1 version? Would anyone like to volunteer? I'll pick-up this responsibility. Raymond ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] tracker status options

2009-03-18 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi all, I'm continuing to (slowly) work through issues. I have been looking particularly at a lot of the open issues regarding strftime. It would be great to put in some of those extra status options that were discussed recently... Open/New Needs help / Chatting Under development