Re: [Python-Dev] pypy-0.9.0: stackless, new extension compiler

2006-06-26 Thread Ben . Young
Congratulations! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/06/2006 13:07:01: The PyPy development team has been busy working and we've now packaged our latest improvements, completed work and new experiments as version 0.9.0, our fourth public release. The highlights of this fourth release of PyPy

Re: [Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free

2006-04-26 Thread Ben . Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/04/2006 13:22:27: Neil Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin v. Löwis: Apparently, the status of this changed right now: it seems that the 2003 compiler is not available anymore; the page now says that it was replaced with the 2005 compiler.

Re: [Python-Dev] Class decorators

2006-03-30 Thread Ben . Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/03/2006 11:38:30: Jack Diederich wrote: Classes have a unique property in that they are the easiest way to make little namespaces in python. For a while now, I've been wondering whether it would be worth having a construct purely for creating little

Re: [Python-Dev] any support for a methodcaller HOF?

2006-02-03 Thread Ben . Young
Michael Hudson wrote on 03/02/2006 09:36:30: Hmm. funcTakingCallback(lamda x:x.method(zip, zop)) funcTakingCallback(methodcaller(method, zip, zop)) I'm not sure which of these is clearer really. Are lambdas so bad? (FWIW, I haven't internalized itemgetter/attrgetter yet and still