Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
, yes. Replacing the current import code is one of the things I really really want to see in 3.0. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
about distutils. But it should not be a requirement for package authors that they become an expert in the packaging software just to make a release! I said it before, and I'll say it again: The audience for Python should not only consist of the people on python-dev. Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
setuptools import setup? Or to something like: Nope, only if you want to use the new, nicer functionality. If you want to stick with the status quo, you're quite welcome to. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
, that's right - we now have a much, much more successful and usable browser. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 20 April 2006 06:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fredrik for some reason, tools of this kind tend to reach the big ball Fredrik of mud stage even before they reach the dogfood stage. and Fredrik once you have a big ball of mud, you simply won't get much Fredrik outside help Not

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Anthony Baxter wrote: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html Yes. I remember that piece. In particular, he wrote the original rant about this about Mozilla/Firefox. How did that work out again? Oh, that's right

[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
Phillip's work has been excessive. He's done an amazing amount of work on this (look at the distutils-sig archive for the last two years for more), and produced something that's very very useful. He deserves far more credit for this than he seems to have been getting here. Anthony -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] Raising objections (was: setuptools in the stdlib)

2006-04-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm not sure how people would prefer this be handled. I don't think we need to have a PEP for it - I don't see PEPs for ctypes, elementtree, pysqlite or cProfile, either. I don't have a problem at all with setuptools going into the standard library. It adds a whole pile of extremely useful

Re: [Python-Dev] How to make _sre.c compile w/ C++?

2006-04-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
* or Py_UNICODE* would make the problem go away. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r45321 - in pyt hon/trunk: Lib/test/test_traceback.py Lib/tracebac k.py Misc/NEWS

2006-04-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
. The buildbot system is useless, otherwise. And yes, I'm working on the existing broken buildslaves trying to fix them. For instance - on ia64, sqlite is failing because of a bug in gcc - compiled with -O2 or higher, sqlite itself is broken. Yay! Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 13 April 2006 10:59, Skip Montanaro wrote: Anthony I've done a lot of the work to get Python to build with g++ - Is this on a branch or available as a patch somewhere? It's the trunk. Is there a primer that will get me to where Anthony is? I tried the obvious

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r45321 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_traceback.py Lib/traceback.py Misc/NEWS

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
the failing tests on the trunk to pass (noting that should have been done before checking in). I'm reverting on the trunk, too. Per PJE's email as well, I think this needs discussion before committing (and it needs the tests updated, first!) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
nasty. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
code in Modules that's not C++ safe. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] building with C++

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
in PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong that returns a -1 despite the return value being declared as unsigned... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Contributor Agreement for pysqlite

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
As far as I know, I've never signed one. I probably should, or is there some grandfathering rule for people who've been contributing from before the new agreement came in? ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Contributor Agreement for pysqlite

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:56, Martin v. Löwis wrote: No - those people will have to fill out the agreement covering past contributions also: http://www.python.org/psf/contrib-form-python.html And yes, you are right - you haven't filed one, so far. Righto - I will try to get to this

Re: [Python-Dev] need info for externally maintained modules PEP

2006-04-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
(a debian derivative) and I _think_ Debian proper has fixed this now. Well, I'd be suprised if Debian proper hasn't fixed it as well, as the same person packages both. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
profiling module cProfile was added. A large number of bugs, regressions and reference leaks have been fixed since Python 2.4. See the release notes for more. Enjoy this new (alpha!) release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1)

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
... Damn. Missed that one. Fixed, will be visible again when the website auto-rebuilds (5-10 minutes). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] TRUNK is UNFROZEN

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:20, Anthony Baxter wrote: www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all, That should be www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/ (needs the trailing /) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.5a1 Performance

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
are otherwise idle, though.) -- -1. A bad benchmark (which pystone is) is much worse than no benchmark. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] Use dlopen() on Darwin/OS X to load extensions?

2006-04-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
this up, though -- the startfile test is absent from the 'exclude' list in the SVN repository. I fixed this shortly after Py2.5a1. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing

[Python-Dev] Reminder: TRUNK FREEZE. 2.5a1, 00:00 UTC, Wednesday 5th of April.

2006-04-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
Just a reminder - the trunk is currently frozen for 2.5a1. Please don't check anything into it until the release is done. I'll send an update when this is good. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ---BeginMessage--- Now that the bug day has

Re: [Python-Dev] posixmodule.c patch- revision 43586

2006-04-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 06:06, Tim Peters wrote: backport of r43578 The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should be set. patch from Aldo Cortesi is in the blamelist for the runs where

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE. 2.5a1, 00:00 UTC, Wednesday 5th of April.

2006-04-02 Thread Anthony Baxter
Now that the bug day has been and gone, it's time to cut 2.5a1. Please consider the trunk FROZEN from 00:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday the 5th of April. I'll post again when it's unfrozen. Please help in not making the release manager cry because the trunk is broken. Thanks, Anthony

[Python-Dev] Firefox searchbar engine for Python bugs

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
: http://www.python.org/~anthony/searchbar/ If you can think of other useful searchbar plugins (Python Docs, maybe?) let me know and I'll look at creating them. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Firefox searchbar engine for Python bugs

2006-04-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:17, Anthony Baxter wrote: I've created a searchbar plugin for the firefox search bar that allows you to search bugs. I should clarify - it allows you to pull up a bug by bug ID, using the www.python.org/sf/ redirector

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
Documentation Upgrade to the updated pysqlite once it's out maybe switch from db.sqlite to just sqlite (trivial enough change). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 30 March 2006 22:25, Andrew Walkingshaw wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:24:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Langner wrote: -1 on db.sql.sqlite. Keep structure flat. Or we are eventually in a Java world with org.something.this.andthat xml.dom.minidom? given the horror of

[Python-Dev] _xmlplus fixup for 2.5

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 30 March 2006 23:07, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Anthony Baxter wrote: xml.dom.minidom? given the horror of _xmlplus/xmlcore and whatnot, I'd be hesitant to use the xml package as an example of _anything_ wink which reminds me -- is that issue still open ? martin? fred? It looks

[Python-Dev] (finally) getting around to killing __private names from stdlib

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
this, does anyone want to scream? (see also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058555.html ) -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
as (for instance) db.mysqldb because of the way package importing works. And I'd prefer 'database.sqlite' rather than 'db.sqlite'. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.3, final.

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpycme1bl6TX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
to see pysqlite in 2.5 is that it follows the standard DB-API. People can start off using it, then look at switching to a larger database if their application needs grow. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
solution makes this better, not worse. I mean, adding ElementTree could also mean people will use XML in more places that are inappropriate, too, but I didn't see that raised as a problem. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
, anyway? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Discussing the Great Library Reorganization

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
luck finding a home for everything... trying to categorise everything will be nearly impossible. And 'from stdlib.misc import foo' will make me very very unhappy. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
on SimpleHTTPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer, smptd, or dumbdbm will also find their performance sucks. What's your point? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
or pkg_resources dance and let people install all N database interfaces instead of just N-1? The same could be said of vast amounts of the standard library. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

2006-03-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm happy to work with Gerhard to make this happen. Does it need a PEP? I'd say no, but only because things like ElementTree didn't, either. Does it need a BDFL pronouncement? I'd say yes. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistency in 2.4.3 for __repr__() returning unicode

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
with this (including the new test) as do various random tests I could string together. I need to apply this in the next short while, so if you have an issue with it, please speak up now! Thanks, Anthony To make repr() conversion more robust, we could have PyObject_Repr() apply the conversion using

Re: [Python-Dev] improving quality

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
cause regressions or incompatible changes. Just like failing tests, code checked in without tests is fair game for being reverted if there is anything questionable. +1 from me. Anyone disagree? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Inconsistency in 2.4.3 for __repr__() returning unicode

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
Never mind. For 2.4.3, I reverted perky's patch for the unicode-escape, and reverted the old patch for PyObject_Repr on the trunk. After talking to perky and Neal, this seemed like the safest option for 2.4.3. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] TRUNK FREEZE for 2.5a1: 0000 UTC, Thursday 30th

2006-03-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
beta until the features we want are in. Please help in making this release as painless as possible by not checking in while the trunk is frozen. Thanks! Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Changing -Q to warn for 2.5?

2006-03-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
, warnall, or new. The default is old in Python 2.2 but will change to warn in later 2.x versions. Is this still accurate? Do we want to change the default in 2.x? If so, does x == 5? -1 PITA. ;) -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

2006-03-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html On a personal note, according to my records this is the 25th release of Python I've made as release manager. So enjoy this silver anniversary release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire

[Python-Dev] release24-maint FREEZE for 2.4.3c1, this Thursday

2006-03-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
any issues with this. Should I also put this sort of information somewhere on the web? Maybe a slot at the top of the buildbot page? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
of days time, with 2.4.3 final next week, and then maybe aim for 2.5a1 a week or two later? How does that work for everyone? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Topic suggestions from the PyCon feedback

2006-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
try to hit all the good points. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug in from __future__ processing?

2006-03-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
compiler to do the work. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] C++ for CPython 3? (Re: str.count is slow)

2006-03-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
might be worthwhile... Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Stateful codecs [Was: str object going in Py3K]

2006-03-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:48, Walter Dörwald wrote: Any progress on this? I'd really like to get this into 2.5 and the feature freeze is approaching fast! Remember, the feature freeze is as of beta1. Hopefully the major new features are all going to be in before alpha1, but they can

Re: [Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 12 February 2006 21:51, Thomas Wouters wrote: Well, in the past, features -- even syntax changes -- have gone in between the last beta and the final release (but reminding Guido might bring him to tears of regret. ;) Features have also gone into what would have been 'bugfix releases'

Re: [Python-Dev] release plan for 2.5 ?

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
, of course. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Python-Dev] buildbot, and test failures

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
It took 2 hours, but I caught up on Python-dev email. Hoorah. So, couple of things - the trunk has test failures for me, right now. test test_email failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/anthony/src/py/pytrunk/python/Lib/email/test/test_email.py, line 2111

[Python-Dev] 2.5 - I'm ok to do release management

2006-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm still catching up on the hundreds of python-dev messages from the last couple of days, but a quick note first that I'm ok to do release management for 2.5 Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
this happen in a bugfix release, for fairly obvious reasons. Who would we need to talk to for a definitive answer? I'm sure there's various FSF mailing lists where we could get 157 different potential answers, but I'm talking about an actual, official FSF statement 0.5 wink Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony Green
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 18:03 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: [I've added python-dev to cc:] Anthony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:08 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: Anyway, another question is: Is aclocal.m4 needed at all for building (or maybe for regenerating

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
has no complaint. My complaint is that libedit _calls_ itself libreadline, when it's pretty clear that it's not actually a drop-in replacement (or the readline module would build). Hence my use of the word crackful wink Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
couldn't tell what needed doing from the trac site. We obviously need to get everything that's needed to use setuptools and eggs so people can just have things just work. Yay for PJE! -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
something like: def __int__(self): raise TypeError(This type is not a number!) I don't see a problem with defining basenumber. For the use cases, pretty much the same set as basesstring. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
the precise buildbot incantation would be, I don't know. At least with the way Twisted is set up, the buildbot also sits in an IRC channel and sends updates there. It can also be controlled from there. Is this worth doing? A 'force clean build' command could be added... Anthony -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
of known users. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
FWIW, I have an older box running Ubuntu 05.10 that spends most of it's days pining for stuff to do (at the moment, it does DHCP and DNS for the house. Yes, I know I have too many damn computers here). I can set up a buildbot on it easily enough. It's something like a 600MHz P3 or something.

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
pain in the clacker to install. For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they qualify for b), I don't know. Anyone else have an opinion on the ease of installation for the various BSDs? Last time I tried one (which was several years ago) it was Not Very Good. Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

2006-01-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:23, Barry Warsaw wrote: Dunno, but I'm always having problems w/ Solaris tar, so I just use GNU tar on Solaris. ;) Maybe we should switch to cpio-based distributions? Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

[Python-Dev] make testall hanging on HEAD?

2005-10-25 Thread Anthony Baxter
test_deque test_descr This is on Ubuntu Breezy, [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)] on linux2 Anyone else see this? -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)

2005-09-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpnp6D6O8ilL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 2005-09-28 00:00 UTC for 2.4.2

2005-09-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
since 2.4.2c1, but nothing that I judge making it worthwhile doing a 2.4.2c2. I'm open to other opinions here, of course. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.2, release candidate 1

2005-09-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team

Re: [Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 2005-09-21 00:00 UTC for 2.4.2

2005-09-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
move to 2.4 without it. Cheers, Max I'm not sure - mwh, how risky a patch is this? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is THAWED (partly frozen ; )

2005-09-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
So the 2.4.2c1 release seems to be not a brown-paper-bag release. The branch should be considered ok for those critical fixes that need to go in before 2.4.2 final - please, please, if you're not absolutely sure, ask me first. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too

[Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 2005-09-21 00:00 UTC for 2.4.2

2005-09-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
with me first. Let's make this a nice painless release. I'll send another message once 2.4.2 is done. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

[Python-Dev] IMPORTANT: 2.4.2c1 Wednesday, 21st September - branch will be closed for a week.

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
closed for all but critical brown-paper-bag bugs for a week, until we (hopefully) cut 2.4.2 final on the 28th. I'll send a reminder email about 12 hours out from the branch close. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] partition() (was: Remove str.find in 3.0?)

2005-08-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
is 'separate()', but a) I always spell it 'seperate' (and I don't need another lamdba wink) b) It's too similar in name to 'split()' Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/test test_bz2.py, 1.18, 1.19

2005-08-26 Thread Anthony Baxter
. The parenthesis must have been accidentally slipped in while I was reviewing the change for correctness. Please ensure that you run the test suite before checking code in! Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecating builtin id (and moving it to sys())

2005-08-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 19 August 2005 02:22, Guido van Rossum wrote: On 8/17/05, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you _really_ want to call a local variable 'id' you can (but shouldn't). Disagreed. The built-in namespace is searched last for a reason -- the design is such that if you don't

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecating builtin id (and moving it to sys())

2005-08-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
. If you _really_ want to call a local variable 'id' you can (but shouldn't). You also can't/shouldn't call a variable 'class', 'def', or 'len' -- but I don't see any movement to allow these... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 347: Migration to Subversion

2005-08-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
systems that are out there. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Distributed RCS

2005-08-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
. This is a complete deal-breaker for us, unless we can agree to dump that Windows support (who needs it, really? wink) I *hope* that baz-ng will work fine on Windows - I haven't looked too closely at that side of it. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy

[Python-Dev] plans for 2.4.2 and 2.5a1

2005-08-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
May-June. This would mean (assuming people are happy with this) we need to make a list of what's still outstanding for 2.5. There's a bunch of accepted PEPs that are waiting for code. Once that's done, there will be a final 2.4.3 sometime after or close to the 2.5 final release. Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] pdb: should next command be extended?

2005-08-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Monday 08 August 2005 20:13, Ilya Sandler wrote: At OSCON, Anthony Baxter made the point that pdb is currently one of the more unPythonic modules. What is unpythonic about pdb? Is this part of Anthony's presentation online? (Google found a summary and slides from presentation

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

2005-08-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
with shtoom - I have properties branchURI and branchRev on the root of the branch. I can then use these when landing the branch. It seems to work well enough for me. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] while:

2005-07-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
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Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
, but if this is to be considered for 2.4.2, it needs to be low risk of breaking anything. 2.4.2 is a bugfix release, and I'd hate to have this break other systems that work... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
with non-gcc C++ compilers, including the DEC^WDigital^Compaq^WHP one on the alphas, and the HP C++ compiler on the HP/UX boxes[1]. (and, it should be added, I very much appreciate the work you've put into fixing this problem) Anthony [1] dunno how useful the HP/UX C++ compiler is going

Re: [Python-Dev] C bindings calling tmpfile() blocks interrupt signal

2005-07-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
), but I stopped caring about them quite a while ago now. Too much pain, for zero gain for me. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] reducing self.x=x; self.y=y; self.z=z boilerplate code

2005-07-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
monitor. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] problem installing current cvs - TabError

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
mix of spaces and tabs. There's a scripts Tools/scripts/reindent.py - put it somewhere on your PATH and run it before checkin, like reindent.py -r Lib. It means Tim or I don't have to run it for you wink Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] IPV6 with Python- 4.2.1 on HPUX

2005-04-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
was utterly broken. Please try with the HP compiler instead, see if that is any better. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib/logging handlers.py, 1.19, 1.19.2.1

2005-03-31 Thread Anthony Baxter
Raymond said. Please don't add new features to the maintenance branch. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.1 (final)

2005-03-30 Thread Anthony Baxter
, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpMCj4iJZ5nA.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE for 2.4.1 final, 2005-03-30 00:00 UTC

2005-03-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
The release24-maint branch is FROZEN from 00:00 UTC, 2005-03-30 (in about 11 hours from now). As usual, unless you're in the set (Anthony, MvL, Fred), please hold off on checkins to the branch until I send a message unfreezing it. Once we've had the appropriate brown-paper-bag time delay

Re: [Python-Dev] docstring before function declaration

2005-03-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm a solid -1 on this change. (In addition, I should note that I tried editing a moderate sized file to put the docstrings before the defs - to my eyes, it made the file more cluttered and much less pleasing to the eye) -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy

Re: [Python-Dev] docstring before function declaration

2005-03-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
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[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.1, release candidate 2

2005-03-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
have been fixed in this version. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE for 2.4.1rc2 at 2005-03-18 0000 UTC

2005-03-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
] IRC: #python-dev on Freenode. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE for 2.4.1rc2 at 2005-03-**17** 0000 UTC

2005-03-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 17 March 2005 00:28, Anthony Baxter wrote: The release24-maint branch should be considered FROZEN as at UTC on 2005-03-18 That should of course be 2005-03-17. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

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