Re: [Python-Dev] Handling linker scripts reached when dynamically loading a module

2011-09-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Let me clarify: This will only be a problem when using a foreign function interface to call a non-versioned module dynamically. As such, it won't be much of a problem for Python. In Python, we don't normally dlopen .so files, except when we know they are Python extension modules, in which case

Re: [Python-Dev] Maintenance burden of str.swapcase

2011-09-11 Thread Michael Foord
On 08/09/2011 03:46, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Glyph Lefkowitz writes: On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: How about title? 'content-length'.title() 'Content-Length' Does anyone *actually* use .title() for this? (And why not just use the

Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA compression support in 3.3

2011-09-11 Thread Nadeem Vawda
I've posted an updated patch to the bug tracker, with a complete implementation of the lzma module, including 100% test coverage for the LZMAFile class (which is implemented entirely in Python). It doesn't include ReST documentation (yet), but the docstrings are quite detailed. Please take a look

Re: [Python-Dev] Maintenance burden of str.swapcase

2011-09-11 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Michael Foord wrote: Does anyone *actually* use .title() for this? (And why not just use the correct casing in the string literal...) Yes. Twisted does, in various MIME-ish places (IMAP, SIP), although not in HTTP from what I can see. I imagine other similar