Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Record Guido's acceptance of PEP 380

2011-06-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 26, 2011, at 05:02 AM, nick.coghlan wrote: http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/9f7a0b4e38a7 changeset: 3889:9f7a0b4e38a7 user:Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com date:Sun Jun 26 13:02:17 2011 +1000 summary: Record Guido's acceptance of PEP 380 files: pep-0380.txt | 10

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

2011-06-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, ezio.melotti python-check...@python.org wrote: -.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack only if there is no -   :keyword:`finally` clause that negates the exception. +.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack unless +  

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

2011-06-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Nick, given I'm guilty for this patch, I'd reply :) On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 15:55, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, ezio.melotti python-check...@python.org wrote: -.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack only if there is no -  

[Python-Dev] Issue10403 - using 'attributes' instead of members in documentation

2011-06-26 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Hello! http://bugs.python.org/issue10403 is a documentation bug which talks about using the term 'attribute' instead of the term 'member' when it denotes the class attributes. Agreed. But the discussion goes on to mention that, Members and methods should just be attributes. I find this bit

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue10403 - using 'attributes' instead of members in documentation

2011-06-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/26/2011 2:52 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: http://bugs.python.org/issue10403 is a documentation bug which talks about using the term 'attribute' instead of the term 'member' when it denotes the class attributes. Agreed. But the discussion goes on to mention that, Members and methods should

Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes: Configurable bitfield allocation strategy

2011-06-26 Thread Vlad Riscutia
Well it's not really layout, because alignment is handled by pack option. It is how the field gets allocated. At this point I believe it will be more complex to come up with custom allocation option, precisely because it's up to each compiler to allocate the structure. Such flexibility will add a

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

2011-06-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Sandro Tosi sandro.t...@gmail.com wrote: I gave my interpretation of the footnote at: http://bugs.python.org/issue11669#msg139092 . Does this clarify it? No, because while there *are* ways a finally clause can kill an exception completely, reraising another

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue10403 - using 'attributes' instead of members in documentation

2011-06-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: or the 'attribute' substitution everywhere makes sense? No. My strong history-based opinions ;-). +1 to what Terry said. Members is a historical relic that is best replaced by attributes or data attributes if we want to

Re: [Python-Dev] EuroPython Language Summit report

2011-06-26 Thread P.J. Eby
At 12:32 PM 6/25/2011 -0400, R. David Murray wrote: So your proposed code would allow me, when writing a generator in my code, do something that would allow me to yield up all the values from an arbitrary generator I'm calling, over which I have no control (ie: I can't modify its code)? With a