[Python-Dev] pip enhancement
On systems where os-level packaging is available (e.g., fedora linux), it is not unusual to want a newer python package installed than available from the vendor. pip install --user can be used for this. But then there is the danger that these pip installed packages are not maintained. At least, pip should have the ability to alert the user to potential updates, pip update could list which packages need updating, and offer to perform the update. I think this would go a long way to helping with this problem. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement
Wow, I didn't know that existed. Maybe needs to be more obvious. But not quite. It doesn't distinguish between locally installed files, and globally installed. Here, globally installed are maintained by the OS vendor packaging, while locally (user, not virtualenv) installed are managed by pip. Really what's needed is for pip --user to apply to all pip commands, and tell pip to ignore the system stuff. Running pip list --outdated runs a long time, and gives me a very long list of packages that are outdated, leaving me to still sort through which are --user (and I might want to update via pip) and which are global (and I can't really do anything about, other than filing a bug report requesting an update). On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 August 2014 13:58, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: At least, pip should have the ability to alert the user to potential updates, pip update could list which packages need updating, and offer to perform the update. I think this would go a long way to helping with this problem. Do you mean something like pip list --outdated? Paul -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it* ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Python-Dev] can't assign to function call
def F(x): return x x = 2 F(x) = 3 F(x) = 3 SyntaxError: can't assign to function call Do we really need this restriction? There do exist other languages without it. ___ 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] SWIG (was Re: Ctypes and the stdlib)
Then there is gccxml, although I'm not sure how active it is now. ___ 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] Draft PEP: Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning
I wonder if this fixes the long-standing issue in OS vendor's distributions. In Fedora, for example, there is both arch-specific and non-arch directories: /usr/lib/python2.7 + /usr/lib64/python2.7, for example. Pure python goes into /usr/lib/python2.7, and code including binaries goes into /usr/lib64/python2.7. But if a package has both, it all has to go into /usr/lib64/python2.7, because the current loader can't find pieces in 2 different directories. You can't have both /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/foo and /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/foo. So if this PEP will allow pieces of foo to be found in 2 different places, that would be helpful, IMO. ___ 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] Pathscale compilers open source
Skip Montanaro wrote: One of my colleagues with a background in the high performance computing realm sent me this press release: http://www.pathscale.com/ekopath4-open-source-announcement I'm not personally familiar with the Pathscale compilers, but thought some folks here might be and might want to experiment with them. Skip I just rebuilt all my c++ (boost::python) modules using pathscale, and I notice many crash with double-free on exit. According to valgrind, this comes from the pathscale stl: Just a heads-up. ==1927== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] ==1927==at 0x4A0556E: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:366) ==1927==by 0xDA77622: operator delete(void*) (in /home/nbecker/ekopath-4.0.10/lib/4.0.10/x8664/64/libcxxrt.so) ==1927==by 0xD7BB91A: std::allocatorchar::deallocate(char*, unsigned long) (in /home/nbecker/ekopath-4.0.10/lib/4.0.10/x8664/64/libstl.so) ==1927==by 0xD7BB99B: std::string::_C_unlink(char*) (in /home/nbecker/ekopath-4.0.10/lib/4.0.10/x8664/64/libstl.so) ==1927==by 0xD7C4309: std::basic_stringchar, std::char_traitschar, std::allocatorchar ::~basic_string() (in /home/nbecker/ekopath-4.0.10/lib/4.0.10/x8664/64/libstl.so) ==1927==by 0x3D64438940: __run_exit_handlers (in /lib64/libc-2.14.so) ___ 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] Linus on garbage collection
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[Python-Dev] [patch] fpconst for python3
Where should I send this patch?
diff -u fpconst-0.7.2/fpconst.py fpconst-0.7.2.new/fpconst.py
--- fpconst-0.7.2/fpconst.py2005-02-24 12:42:03.0 -0500
+++ fpconst-0.7.2.new/fpconst.py2010-10-19 20:55:07.407765664 -0400
@@ -40,18 +40,18 @@
ident = $Id: fpconst.py,v 1.16 2005/02/24 17:42:03 warnes Exp $
import struct, operator
+from functools import reduce
# check endianess
-_big_endian = struct.pack('i',1)[0] != '\x01'
-
+_big_endian = struct.pack('i',1)[0] != 1
# and define appropriate constants
if(_big_endian):
-NaN= struct.unpack('d', '\x7F\xF8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
-PosInf = struct.unpack('d', '\x7F\xF0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
+NaN= struct.unpack('d', b'\x7F\xF8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
+PosInf = struct.unpack('d', b'\x7F\xF0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
NegInf = -PosInf
else:
-NaN= struct.unpack('d', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf8\xff')[0]
-PosInf = struct.unpack('d', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0\x7f')[0]
+NaN= struct.unpack('d', b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf8\xff')[0]
+PosInf = struct.unpack('d', b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0\x7f')[0]
NegInf = -PosInf
def _double_as_bytes(dval):
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[Python-Dev] multi-version parallel-installed modules
Is there any proposal to accommodate having parallel-installed multiple versions of modules? I have client code in multiple projects using version x.y of a C-compiled module A. I want to test a new version x.z of module A, but all client software needs to be recompiled against the new version. If I just install the module, all the other client software breaks. I know I could test using virtualenv, but there would be a lot of modules to install into virtualenv to run the tests, so this would be cumbersome. I'd prefer to have multiple version co-exist so I could update projects to the new version at my convenience. How does this situation happen? I have lots of c++ code using pyublas, which allows c++ code written to the boost::ublas interface to operate on numpy vectors/matrixes. pyublas is built against boost libs. pyublas installs a module, whose purpose is to register conversions. When I update boost libs, I have to rebuild pyublas and install the updated module. Then rebuild my client software modules. If pyublas is built against a different boost version than my client modules, the conversions will fail. ___ 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] argparse suggestion
steven.beth...@gmail.com made a very nice module for me to enhance argparse
called argparse_bool.py, which contains ConfigureAction. This will allow a
boolean value to be set very like the gnu configure style:
--foo
--with-foo
--without-foo
--no-foo
--foo=yes
--foo=no
I've been happily using it, and I think it would be of sufficient general
interest to include it with the standard library.
import argparse
import re
def boolean(string):
string = string.lower()
if string in ['0', 'f', 'false', 'no', 'off']:
return False
elif string in ['1', 't', 'true', 'yes', 'on']:
return True
else:
raise ValueError()
class ConfigureAction(argparse.Action):
def __init__(self,
option_strings,
dest,
default=None,
required=False,
help=None,
metavar=None,
positive_prefixes=['--', '--with-', '--enable-'],
negative_prefixes=['--no-', '--without-', '--disable-']):
strings = []
self.positive_strings = set()
self.negative_strings = set()
for string in option_strings:
assert re.match(r'--[A-z]+', string)
suffix = string[2:]
for positive_prefix in positive_prefixes:
self.positive_strings.add(positive_prefix + suffix)
strings.append(positive_prefix + suffix)
for negative_prefix in negative_prefixes:
self.negative_strings.add(negative_prefix + suffix)
strings.append(negative_prefix + suffix)
super(ConfigureAction, self).__init__(
option_strings=strings,
dest=dest,
nargs='?',
const=None,
default=default,
type=boolean,
choices=None,
required=required,
help=help,
metavar=metavar)
def __call__(self, parser, namespace, value, option_string=None):
if value is None:
value = option_string in self.positive_strings
elif option_string in self.negative_strings:
value = not value
setattr(namespace, self.dest, value)
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--fun', action=ConfigureAction)
assert parser.parse_args([]).fun == None
assert parser.parse_args(['--fun']).fun == True
assert parser.parse_args(['--with-fun']).fun == True
assert parser.parse_args(['--enable-fun']).fun == True
assert parser.parse_args(['--no-fun']).fun == False
assert parser.parse_args(['--without-fun']).fun == False
assert parser.parse_args(['--disable-fun']).fun == False
print parser.parse_args()
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[Python-Dev] argparse ambiguity handling
I've noticed argparse ambiguity handling has changed a bit over last few revisions. I have cases where 1 valid input is a prefix of another: e.g.: '--string' '--string2' With the most recent 1.1, the behavior is: --string=hello is accepted, while: --strin=hello is marked as ambiguous. I'm OK with this, but just want to know if there is agreement that this is the behavior we want. ___ 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] argparse ambiguity handling
Steven Bethard wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed argparse ambiguity handling has changed a bit over last few revisions. I have cases where 1 valid input is a prefix of another: e.g.: '--string' '--string2' With the most recent 1.1, the behavior is: --string=hello is accepted, while: --strin=hello is marked as ambiguous. I'm OK with this, but just want to know if there is agreement that this is the behavior we want. I don't have a strong feeling about this. What was the behavior before? Steve At least 1 earlier version said that even exact match was ambiguous. I have a preference to allow at least exact matches to succeed even in the case of ambiguity - mainly because I accidentally created this already once, and I feel it's better to at least work somewhat. Not sure if there is any more elegant solution. OTOH, I feel this is somewhat inelegant, as it appears to treat exact match as a special case. ___ 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] C++
Neil Hodgson wrote: Antoine Pitrou: Is this concern still valid? We are in the 2010s now. I'm not saying I want us to put some C++ in the core interpreter, but the portability argument sounds a little old... There are still viable platforms which only support subsets of C++. IIRC, Android does not support exceptions in C++. Neil Does re2 require exceptions? ___ 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] interesting article on regex performance
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Re: [Python-Dev] argparse ugliness
On Monday 08 March 2010, David Stanek wrote:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Steven Bethard
steven.beth...@gmail.com wrote:
In argparse, unlike optparse, actions are actually defined by objects
with a particular API, and the string is just a shorthand for
referring to that. So:
parser.add_argument ('--plot', action='store_true')
is equivalent to:
parser.add_argument('--plot', argparse._StoreTrueAction)
Because the names are so long and you'd have to import them, I've left
them as private attributes of the module, but if there's really
demand, we could rename them to argparse.StoreTrueAction, etc.
Any reason not to do something like:
from argparse import actions
...
parser.add_argument('--plot', actions.store_true)
Basically a small namespace for the constants.
+1
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[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness
I generally enjoy argparse, but one thing I find rather
ugly and unpythonic.
parser.add_argument ('--plot', action='store_true')
Specifying the argument 'action' as a string is IMO ugly.
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Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?
Ian Bicking wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM, sstein...@gmail.com sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Although I am of the people who think working modules shouldn't be deprecated, I also don't think adding compatibility aliases is a good idea. They only make the APIs more bloated and maintenance more tedious. Let's keep the new APIs clean of any unnecessary baggage. Agreed. If you want to make an adapter to do things like convert 'int' to int, then call the new API then fine, but don't start crufting up a new API to make it 'easier' to convert. All crufting it up does is make it _less_ clear how to use the new API by bring along things that don't belong in it. The new API is almost exactly like the old optparse API. It's not like it's some shining jewel of perfection that would be tainted by somehow being similar to optparse when it's almost exactly like optparse already. If it wasn't like optparse, then fine, whatever; but it *is* like optparse, so these differences feel unnecessary. Converting 'int' to int internally in argparse is hardly difficult or unclear. If argparse doesn't do this, then I think at least it should give good error messages for all cases where these optparse-isms remain. For instance, now if you include %prog in your usage you get: ValueError: unsupported format character 'p' (0x70) at index 1 -- that's simply a bad error message. Giving a proper error message takes about as much code as making %prog work. I don't feel strongly that one is better than the other, but at least one of those should be done. I agree (and I've used both for quite a long time). argparse has an api that is almost compatible with optparse in many common cases, but just renamed some things. ___ 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] Howto handle multilib conflict?
Just received: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528237 yum install libotf-devel.i586 libotf-devel.x86_64 yields: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/libotf-config from install of libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.i586 conflicts with file from package libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.x86_64 file /usr/share/doc/libotf-devel-0.9.8/example/Makefile from install of libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.i586 conflicts with file from package libotf-devel-0.9.8-2.fc11.x86_64 What is the recommended way to resolve this? ___ 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] Howto handle multilib conflict?
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module
If the plan is to migrate from optparse to argparse, this could be made a bit easier. If it weren't for the fact that some names are different in argparse than optparse, I believe many optparse usages could port with no change. ___ 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] typo in 8.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language?
format_spec ::= [[fill]align][sign][#][0][width][.precision][type] The precision is ignored for integer values. In [36]: '%3x' % 10 Out[36]: ' a' In [37]: '%.3x' % 10 Out[37]: '00a' Apparently, precision is _not_ ignored? ___ 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] What's missing from easy_install
1. easy_remove! 2. Various utilities to provide query package management. - easy_install --list (list files installed) ___ 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] Evaluated cmake as an autoconf replacement
David Cournapeau wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: ... Waf is definitely faster than scons - something like one order of magnitude. I am yet very familiar with waf, but I like what I saw - the architecture is much nicer than scons (waf core amount of code is almost ten times smaller than scons core), but I would not call it a mature project yet. I haven't tried waf, but IIUC it _solves_ the bootstrap issue. ___ 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] multiprocessing not compatible with functional.partial
If the argument to pool.map (f, args) is f = functional.partial (my_func, some_keyword_arg=whatever) I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multiprocessing-2.6.1.1-py2.5-linux- self.run() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multiprocessing-2.6.1.1-py2.5-linux- self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multiprocessing-2.6.1.1-py2.5-linux- task = get() File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/multiprocessing-2.6.1.1-py2.5-linux- return recv() TypeError: type 'partial' takes at least one argument ___ 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] multiprocessing not compatible with functional.partial
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Calvin Spealman wrote:
I don't think it would be unreasonable to consider either 1) making
functools.partial picklable (I don't know how feasible this is)
It's not only feasible, but quite easy and, I think, useful. A
partial instance is a simple triplet of (function, args, kwds), and it
can be pickled as such. For example:
import copy_reg, functools
def _reconstruct_partial(f, args, kwds):
... return functools.partial(f, *args, **(kwds or {}))
...
def _reduce_partial(p):
... return _reconstruct_partial, (p.func, p.args, p.keywords)
...
copy_reg.pickle(functools.partial, _reduce_partial)
Test:
import operator, cPickle as cp
p = functools.partial(operator.add, 3)
p(10)
13
cp.dumps(p)
'c__main__\n_reconstruct_partial\np1\n(coperator\nadd\np2\n(I3\ntp3\nNtRp4\n.'
p2 = cp.loads(_)
p2(10)
13
Iedally this should be implemented in the functools.partial object itself.
Confirmed:
from multiprocessing import Pool
def power (x, pwr=2):
return x**pwr
import functools
run_test = functools.partial (power, pwr=3)
import copy_reg, functools
def _reconstruct_partial(f, args, kwds):
return functools.partial(f, *args, **(kwds or {}))
def _reduce_partial(p):
return _reconstruct_partial, (p.func, p.args, p.keywords)
copy_reg.pickle(functools.partial, _reduce_partial)
if __name__ == __main__:
pool = Pool()
cases = [3,4,5]
results = pool.map (run_test, cases)
print results
$python test_multi.py
[27, 64, 125]
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Re: [Python-Dev] multiprocessing not compatible with fu nctional.partial
Is it possible to get a better error message (regarding the pickle-ability)? ___ 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] improvements for mmap
I'd like to suggest some improvements from mmap 1) mmap assign to slice only accepts a string. This is unfortunate, because AFAIK a string can only be created by copying data, and this is wasteful for large data transfers. mmap should accept any object supporting buffer protocol as well as string. 2) buffer (mmap_obj) gives a read_only buffer. There should be a way to make this read_write. 3) mmap_obj does not support weak ref. ___ 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] Invitation to try out open source code review tool
It would be really nice to see support for some other backends, such as Hg or bzr (which are both written in python), in addition to svn. ___ 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] enhanced ioctl?
IIUC, current ioctl is not capable of handling arbitrary argument types.
This code will allow any arg type (such as structures with pointers to
embedded structures).
The code for _IOC is taken from linux and might not be portable.
from ctypes import *
libc = CDLL ('/lib/libc.so.6')
#print libc.ioctl
def set_ioctl_argtype (arg_type):
libc.ioctl.argtypes = (c_int, c_int, arg_type)
_IOC_WRITE = 0x1
_IOC_NRBITS=8
_IOC_TYPEBITS= 8
_IOC_SIZEBITS= 14
_IOC_DIRBITS= 2
_IOC_NRSHIFT= 0
_IOC_TYPESHIFT= (_IOC_NRSHIFT+_IOC_NRBITS)
_IOC_SIZESHIFT= (_IOC_TYPESHIFT+_IOC_TYPEBITS)
_IOC_DIRSHIFT= (_IOC_SIZESHIFT+_IOC_SIZEBITS)
def _IOC (dir, type, nr, size):
return (((dir) _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \
((type) _IOC_TYPESHIFT) | \
((nr)_IOC_NRSHIFT) | \
((size) _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
def ioctl (fd, request, args):
return libc.ioctl (fd, request, args)
---
Example usage:
from ioctl import *
set_ioctl_argtype (POINTER (eos_dl_args_t))
EOS_IOC_MAGIC = 0xF4
request = _IOC(_IOC_WRITE, EOS_IOC_MAGIC, 0x00, 0) # ignore size
err = ioctl (eos_file.fileno(), request, args)
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Re: [Python-Dev] enhanced ioctl?
Benjamin Peterson wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIUC, current ioctl is not capable of handling arbitrary argument types. This code will allow any arg type (such as structures with pointers to embedded structures). Please submit this patch to the tracker. issue 2712 ___ 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] segfault in 2.5.1
Attempt to write to a mmap which was opened mmap.PROT_READ causes python to segfault. ___ 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] mmap documentation error (2.5.1)
mmap( fileno, length[, flags[, prot[, access]]]) (Unix version) Maps length bytes from the file specified by the file descriptor fileno, and returns a mmap object. If length is 0, the maximum length of the map will be the current size of the file when mmap() is called. flags specifies the nature of the mapping. MAP_PRIVATE creates a private copy-on-write mapping, so changes to the contents of the mmap object will be private to this process, and MAP_SHARED creates a mapping that's shared with all other processes mapping the same areas of the file. The default value is MAP_SHARED. Apparantly, this is wrong - the default is not MAP_SHARED, as I just found out the hard way. ___ 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] mmap documentation error (2.5.1)
Sorry, my mistake. Acutally, I was trying to debug this:
On linux, I don't understand why:
f = open ('/dev/eos', 'rw')
m = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 100, prot=mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_WRITE,
flags=mmap.MAP_SHARED)
gives 'permission denied', but this c++ code works:
#include sys/mman.h
#include fcntl.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include iostream
int main() {
int fd = open (/dev/eos, O_RDWR);
void* m = mmap (NULL, 100, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
std::cout m '\n';
}
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Re: [Python-Dev] pydoc works with eggs? (python-2.5.1)
Neal Becker wrote:
pydoc blew up when I tried to view doc for pytools module, which is an
egg:
pydoc -p 8082
pydoc server ready at http://localhost:8082/
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 52915)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 222, in handle_request
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 241, in
process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 254, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 522, in __init__
self.handle()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py, line 316, in handle
self.handle_one_request()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py, line 310, in
handle_one_request
method()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 1924, in do_GET
self.send_document(describe(obj), html.document(obj, path))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 321, in document
if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 672, in docmodule
contents.append(self.document(value, key, name, fdict, cdict))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 322, in document
if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 807, in docclass
lambda t: t[1] == 'method')
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 735, in spill
funcs, classes, mdict, object))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 323, in document
if inspect.isroutine(object): return self.docroutine(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 891, in docroutine
getdoc(object), self.preformat, funcs, classes, methods)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 79, in getdoc
result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py, line 521, in getcomments
lines, lnum = findsource(object)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py, line 510, in findsource
if pat.match(lines[lnum]): break
IndexError: list index out of range
I see that installing the egg unzipped fixes this. It looks to me that
pydoc doesn't work with zipped eggs.
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[Python-Dev] pydoc works with eggs? (python-2.5.1)
pydoc blew up when I tried to view doc for pytools module, which is an egg:
pydoc -p 8082
pydoc server ready at http://localhost:8082/
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 52915)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 222, in handle_request
self.process_request(request, client_address)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 241, in process_request
self.finish_request(request, client_address)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 254, in finish_request
self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 522, in __init__
self.handle()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py, line 316, in handle
self.handle_one_request()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py, line 310, in handle_one_request
method()
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 1924, in do_GET
self.send_document(describe(obj), html.document(obj, path))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 321, in document
if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 672, in docmodule
contents.append(self.document(value, key, name, fdict, cdict))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 322, in document
if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 807, in docclass
lambda t: t[1] == 'method')
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 735, in spill
funcs, classes, mdict, object))
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 323, in document
if inspect.isroutine(object): return self.docroutine(*args)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 891, in docroutine
getdoc(object), self.preformat, funcs, classes, methods)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/pydoc.py, line 79, in getdoc
result = inspect.getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py, line 521, in getcomments
lines, lnum = findsource(object)
File /usr/lib64/python2.5/inspect.py, line 510, in findsource
if pat.match(lines[lnum]): break
IndexError: list index out of range
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Re: [Python-Dev] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond
Another use case, which I find in my world, is that there are always packages that interest me (found at pypi), that my vendor hasn't packaged as rpms yet. With finite resources, this will always be true. ___ 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] [Distutils] How we can get rid of eggs for 2.6 and beyond
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Essentially, one would have to contribute patches to all the distributions (we care about, at least), and then nag the respective maintainers to include these patches. Not true. You just need to make sure that setup.py install creates that database. With the proposed format of the database this is just a file in the correct location - exactly for this reason. Next time the distribution will build the package that database file will be in place. How so? Are you /sure/ the packaging process even *runs* setup.py? And if they do, why do you think they will pick up the database file? In the case of Fedora rpms, the usual install uses setup.py. ___ 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] download python-2.6 docs?
http://docs.python.org/dev/download.html I want a pdf. The above link says: To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. But there are no links. ___ 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] can't set attributes of built-in/extension type
Guido van Rossum wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is some discussion on this subject, archived here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/560661 I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this subject? (Or, help me understand, what is the difference between a type that I create using python C api and a python class?) This is prohibited intentionally to prevent accidental fatal changes to built-in types (fatal to parts of the code that you never though of). Also, it is done to prevent the changes to affect different interpreters residing in the address space, since built-in types (unlike user-defined classes) are shared between all such interpreters. Thanks for the info. I'm still curious. What if I wanted to create a 'real' python class using python c-api? How is that done? ___ 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] can't set attributes of built-in/extension type
There is some discussion on this subject, archived here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/560661 I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this subject? (Or, help me understand, what is the difference between a type that I create using python C api and a python class?) ___ 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] trunk-math
There is a post on boost (http://boost.org) about floating point utilities that are being considered for review. This seems to have a lot of overlap with python needs. I haven't reviewed this myself, but boost code is meant to be quite portable. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/2gg4z3 ___ 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] trunk-math
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Re: [Python-Dev] Any Emacs tips for core developers?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Finally, for you Ubuntu developers, I'm also using the the pre-release XFT GNU emacs, which is very pretty. So far, despite stern and dire warnings, it has had no stability issues: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs Look for the PPA deb lines there, and you get a nicely prepackaged, policy-compliant version of emacs with no need to build anything yourself. FYI, I have built xft gnu emacs, as well as xft xemacs for fedora F7/8. I can make the srpms available if anyone wants them. I use xemacs all day every day and never see any problem (except for some slight font droppings). ___ 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] Any Emacs tips for core developers?
Guido van Rossum wrote: I believe recent versions of Emacs and Vim have Python support standard. At least, it's been years since I last had to do anything to install it. I've heard that there are two independent Python modes for Emacs -- though they are suppose to be pretty similar. I don't even know how to tell them apart. --Guido The more functional one is called python-mode.el, and if it's loaded you'll have 2 python-related menus, one called Python and one called IM-Python. The other is just called 'python.el' and results in one menu. It has far fewer features. ___ 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] ctypes issue
In python 2.5.1: from ctypes import * c = c_int(4) print c == 4 print c.value == 4 False True This seem unreasonable to me, and a big invitation to error. ___ 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] PEP: Lazy module imports and post import hook
Christian Heimes wrote: I've attached the first public draft of my first PEP. A working patch against the py3k branch is available at http://bugs.python.org/issue1576 Christian Note also that mercurial has demandimport http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ ___ 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] Improved dyn mod load debug
I had mistakenly installed a module (Qsci.so) into the wrong directory.
Debugging this was harder than it needed to be (c-level debug of shared
lib).
Currently, the only debug info is from importdl.c:
m = PyDict_GetItemString(PyImport_GetModuleDict(), name);
if (m == NULL) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError,
dynamic module not initialized properly);
return NULL;
}
I wonder if it would be difficult to print out the name expected, and the
name actually loaded? In this case, it would have said:
expected: PyQt4/Qsci
loaded: Qsci
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[Python-Dev] python sphinx install?
I'm interested in trying out new style (python 2.6) documentation. I see we're using docutils + sphinx? I did: svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/ How can I install this to try it with python-2.5? ___ 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] python sphinx install?
Georg Brandl wrote: Neal Becker schrieb: I'm interested in trying out new style (python 2.6) documentation. I see we're using docutils + sphinx? I did: svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/ How can I install this to try it with python-2.5? What do you want to try with Python 2.5? If you want to build the Python 2.6/3.0 docs, it's easiest to check the Python sources out from http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk, go to the Doc directory and do make html. This will checkout sphinx and all other needed libraries into Doc/tools and build the docs. Georg I want to document my own python code. I figured I might as well start using the new documentation system - but I'm using python-2.5. I intend to use epydoc. I thought maybe I could just add sphinx to my docutils, but maybe not? ___ 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] add bool type to optparse
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:50:38AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
Subject says it all.
Why is boolean support needed, given that optparse has store_true and
store_false actions? Example usage:
parser.add_option('--confirm', action='store_true', dest='confirm')
--amk
So you can do:
--option=false
Otherwise you have to do something like:
(action='store_false', default=True)
and use:
--no-option
which is OK sometimes, but why not allow a choice?
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[Python-Dev] add bool type to optparse
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Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would appear that while we slept Jens Mortensen was busy at work on his
rst2{latex,latexmath,mathml}.py scripts:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/
Note the date on the files. It seems to work pretty well, and as others
have pointed out, LaTeX notation is probably more familiar to people
interested in math display than anything else.
I know almost nothing about docutils internals. How do I 'install' the above?
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Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be my choices for add math to the documentation? Where in the current documentation is there any math notation /at all/? Georg There is exactly one instance of LaTeX math in the whole docs, Georg it's in the description of audioop, AFAIR, an contains a sum over Georg square roots... Georg So, that's not really a concern of mine ;) You must realize that people will use the core tools to create documentation for third party packages which aren't in the core. If you replace LaTeX with something else I think you need to keep math in mind whether it's used in the core documentation or not. Perhaps my comment was misunderstood. I have no objection to a new system, and it does not have to be based on latex. I just hope there will be some escape mechanism that allows math. It happens that for math markup, there isn't really anything better (or more familiar) than latex. ___ 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] The docs, reloaded
Sounds very interesting. I just have one concern/question. I hope that while moving away from latex, we are not precluding the ability to write math as part of the documentation. What would be my choices for add math to the documentation? Hopefully using latex, since there really isn't AFAIK any other competitor for this. ___ 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] The docs, reloaded
Georg Brandl wrote: Scott Dial schrieb: Neal Becker wrote: Sounds very interesting. I just have one concern/question. I hope that while moving away from latex, we are not precluding the ability to write math as part of the documentation. What would be my choices for add math to the documentation? Hopefully using latex, since there really isn't AFAIK any other competitor for this. Where in the current documentation is there any math notation /at all/? In all my reading of it, I have not run across anything that appeared like it was being used. Besides that question, is the full power of LaTeX math notation really necessary here? I somehow doubt anything more than simple expressions of runtime performance and container behaviors are appropriate for any documentation we have. There is exactly one instance of LaTeX math in the whole docs, it's in the description of audioop, AFAIR, an contains a sum over square roots... So, that's not really a concern of mine ;) Georg There is an effort as part of numpy to come up with a new system using docstrings. It seems to me it would be unfortunate if these two efforts were not coordinated. ___ 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] python3k change to slicing
There is one thing I'd like to see changed in a future python. I always found it surprising, that x = [1,2,3,4,5] x[1:10] [2, 3, 4, 5] is not an error. This is perhaps the only case (but a fundamental one!) where an error is silently ignored. I really can't think of a good justification for it. If I really meant x[1:] I would have said so. ___ 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] bool conversion wart?
int ('4')
4
bool ('False')
True
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Re: [Python-Dev] bool conversion wart?
Mike Klaas wrote:
On 2/22/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well consider this:
str (4)
'4'
int(str (4))
4
str (False)
'False'
bool(str(False))
True
Doesn't this seem a bit inconsisent?
Virtually no python objects accept a stringified version of themselves
in their constructor:
str({})
'{}'
dict('{}')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is
required
str([])
'[]'
list('[]')
['[', ']']
Python is not Perl.
Except, all the numeric types do, including int, float, and complex. But
not bool. In fact, this is not just academic. The fact that other numeric
types act this way leaves a reasonable expectation that bool will.
Instead, bool fails in _the worst possible way_: it silently gives a _wrong
result_.
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[Python-Dev] syntax misfeature (exception)
I accidentally wrote: try: ... except a,b: rather than: try ... except (a,b): It appears that the 1st example syntax is silently accepted, but doesn't seem to work. Is this true? If so, I'd say it's a wart. ___ 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] syntax misfeature (exception)
Georg Brandl wrote: Neal Becker schrieb: I accidentally wrote: try: ... except a,b: rather than: try ... except (a,b): It appears that the 1st example syntax is silently accepted, but doesn't seem to work. Is this true? If so, I'd say it's a wart. Both have a meaning: The first assigns the exception object to b, while the second catches exception types a and b. BTW, in Python 3.0, the first will be spelled except a as b. Please post questions about using the language to the comp.lang.python group. It's not a question, it's a critique. I believe this is a misfeature since it's so easy to make this mistake. ___ 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] Pydoc Improvements / Rewrite
No time to review this now, but I'd just like to say that the 1 thing I'd like to see is support for decent mathematical markup. I think at this point that support for latex markup is the way to achieve this. ___ 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] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python
I have watched numpy with interest for a long time. My own interest is to possibly use the c-api to wrap c++ algorithms to use from python. One thing that has concerned me, and continues to concern me with this proposal, is that it seems to suffer from a very fat interface. I certainly have not studied the options in any depth, but my gut feeling is that the interface is too fat and too complex. I wonder if it's possible to avoid this. I wonder if this is an example of all the methods sinking to the base class. ___ 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] os.unlink() closes file?
It seems (I haven't looked at source) that os.unlink() will close the file? If so, please make this optional. It breaks the unix idiom for making a temporary file. (Yes, I know there is a tempfile module, but I need some behavior it doesn't implement so I want to do it myself). ___ 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] os.unlink() closes file?
Ronald Oussoren wrote: On Friday, September 29, 2006, at 02:22PM, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems (I haven't looked at source) that os.unlink() will close the file? If so, please make this optional. It breaks the unix idiom for making a temporary file. (Yes, I know there is a tempfile module, but I need some behavior it doesn't implement so I want to do it myself). On what platform? Do you have a script that demonstrates your problem? If yes, please file a bug in the bugtracker at http://www.sf.net/projects/python. AFAIK os.unlink doesn't close files, and I cannot reproduce this problem (python2.3 on Solaris 9). Sorry, my mistake. ___ 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] SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
Guido van Rossum wrote: On 8/10/06, James Y Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes just as much sense as assigning to an array access, and the semantics would be pretty similar. No. Array references (x[i]) and attribute references (x.a) represent locations. Function calls represent values. This is no different than the distinction between lvalues and rvalues in C. Except this syntax is valid in c++ where X() is a constructor call: X(whatever) += 2; is (or can be) valid c++ ___ 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] SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
class X (object): pass X() += 2 SyntaxError: can't assign to function call Suppose I actually had defined __iadd__ for class X. Python says this syntax is invalid. I wish is wasn't. Here's where I might use it. Suppose I have a container class. Suppose I could make a slice of this container, like so: c = Container() s = Slice (c, 0, 10) where Slice is a class. Then: s += 2 Would perform iadd on the slice of the container. A convenient syntax would be: Slice (c, 0, 10) += 2 Does anyone else think this would be a good addition to Python? ___ 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] Document performance requirements?
On Friday 21 July 2006 7:49 am, Nick Coghlan wrote: Neal Becker wrote: For a recent project I needed to select a container. There are plenty of python data structures to choose from. It seems that information on performance is missing (or not easy to find). I think Python should include performance in the documentation of common data structures to help users select the appropriate types. Something in the style of c++ STL. Do you mean absolute performance, or do you mean algorithmic order guarantees? I thought the latter were already documented. . . The latter. Where are they documented? ___ 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] Document performance requirements?
For a recent project I needed to select a container. There are plenty of python data structures to choose from. It seems that information on performance is missing (or not easy to find). I think Python should include performance in the documentation of common data structures to help users select the appropriate types. Something in the style of c++ STL. ___ 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] Document performance requirements?
Nick Coghlan wrote: Neal Becker wrote: For a recent project I needed to select a container. There are plenty of python data structures to choose from. It seems that information on performance is missing (or not easy to find). I think Python should include performance in the documentation of common data structures to help users select the appropriate types. Something in the style of c++ STL. Do you mean absolute performance, or do you mean algorithmic order guarantees? I thought the latter were already documented. . . The latter. Where is it documented? ___ 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] High Level Virtual Machine
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[Python-Dev] suggest: nowait option in subprocess.communicate
I'd like to start several processes, each a pipe reading from my python main process. It looks like I want to write all my data to each process, then use communicate(), but I don't want to wait for each process yet, since then they would block each other. Why not add a nowait option to communicate? ___ 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] Problem with module loading on multi-arch?
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
1. Does it make sense to have both
site-dep/app/subpackage
and
site-indep/app/subpackage
?
My answer: definitely yes. We already agree that we should have both
site-dep for binary code and site-indep for python code, so there is no
way to avoid this.
I'm not sure I understand what you are talking about. What is site-dep
and site-indep? Where do we have that for binary code and for python
code? I know what prefix and exec_prefix are.
2. What should the module search do?
I don't know the details of the current algorithm, but clearly it's going
to have to deal correctly with the above.
It's very simple. Importing traverses sys.path.
One possibility (and maybe this is how it already works?) is that the
module search doesn't know anything about site-dep/site-indep, it simply
has a list of paths to search.
Well, I don't know about site-dep/site-indep, so I wouldn't be surprised
if module search didn't, either.
Sorry, maybe I used confusing terminology.
A reference is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python
This is the current setup. For example, this is a standard macro used by
Redhat in RPM SPEC files for python:
%define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c from distutils.sysconfig import
get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1))}
%define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c from distutils.sysconfig import
get_python_lib; print get_python_lib())}
Clearly this practice is widespread. It would seem that module search needs
some modification to fully support it.
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[Python-Dev] Problem with module loading on multi-arch?
I just installed TwistedSumo-2006-02-12 on x86_64, and noticed a problem. It installs arch-dep stuff into /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/twisted, and arch-indep into /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twisted as it should. But: from twisted.web import html exceptions.ImportError: No module named web I'm guessing that what's happening is that since there is an arch-dep/twisted, we never find the module arch-indep/twisted/web. If my analysis (guess) is correct, I think we have a problem with the module search. ___ 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] Problem with module loading on multi-arch?
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Neal Becker wrote: I'm guessing that what's happening is that since there is an arch-dep/twisted, we never find the module arch-indep/twisted/web. If my analysis (guess) is correct, I think we have a problem with the module search. That is quite possible. I keep applying patches from people who claim to know how things on AMD64 linux work, much without questioning them. It is quite possible that one of these patches broke something. I'm happy to revert or augment them if needed. Somebody should define how things ought to work, implement a patch that both includes a documentation and an implementation of these decisions, and then keep an eye on patches that might break this design. OK, let's talk about it. 1. Does it make sense to have both site-dep/app/subpackage and site-indep/app/subpackage ? My answer: definitely yes. We already agree that we should have both site-dep for binary code and site-indep for python code, so there is no way to avoid this. 2. What should the module search do? I don't know the details of the current algorithm, but clearly it's going to have to deal correctly with the above. One possibility (and maybe this is how it already works?) is that the module search doesn't know anything about site-dep/site-indep, it simply has a list of paths to search. If I did want to try to fix this myself, where would I find the code for it? ___ 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] Help with inotify
I'm trying to make a module to support inotify (linux). I put together a module using boost::python. Problem is, inotify uses a file descriptor. If I call python os.fdopen on it, I get an error: Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:15:14) [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. from inotify import * import os i=inotify() i.fileno() 4 os.fdopen (i.fileno()) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory Any ideas? I'd rather not have to trace through python if I could avoid it (I don't even have source installed here). ___ 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] Help with inotify
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to trace through python if I could avoid
it (I don't even have source installed here).
Use strace, then. Find out what precise system call gives you this
error. If this is not enough clue, post the relevant fragment of the
trace output. Usage would be
strace -o muell python test_notify.py
(look into the file muell afterwards)
Yes, tried that- learned nothing.
I suspect what's happening is that python's fdopen is using some stat call
to determine whether the file descriptor refers to a directory, and is
getting an answer that the inotify fd does. Don't know what to do about
it. Can I build a python file object in C from the fd?
Here's strace. The write of '4' is where my code writes the value of
fileno() to stdout, which is '4', which is correct - notice that
open(test-inotify.py) returned '3':
...
open(test-inotify.py, O_RDONLY) = 3
write(2, File \test-inotify.py\, line 6..., 39) = 39
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=87, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x2dc13000
read(3, from inotify import *\nimport os\n..., 4096) = 87
write(2, , 4) = 4
write(2, os.fdopen (i.fileno())\n, 23) = 23
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x2dc13000, 4096)= 0
write(2, IOError, 7) = 7
write(2, : , 2) = 2
write(2, [Errno 21] Is a directory, 25) = 25
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Re: [Python-Dev] Help with inotify
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
Yes, tried that- learned nothing.
Please go back further in the trace file. There must be a return
value of -1 (EISDIR) somewhere in the file, try to locate that.
Here's strace. The write of '4' is where my code writes the value of
fileno() to stdout, which is '4', which is correct - notice that
open(test-inotify.py) returned '3':
The fragment you quote only refers to the part where it tries to
format the traceback. The value '4' is never written, instead,
it writes 4 spaces (the second argument is the bytes, the third
is the number of bytes).
This 1st line is the syscall for inotify:
SYS_253(0, 0x7f88f0f0, 0x2dda3f00, 0x2ab4611b, 0x7) = 4
close(3)= 0
futex(0x502530, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
futex(0x502530, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 3), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x2dc12000
write(1, 4\n, 2) = 2
fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x2dc13000
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
close(4)= 0
munmap(0x2dc13000, 4096)= 0
write(2, Traceback (most recent call last..., 35) = 35
open(test-inotify.py, O_RDONLY) = 3
write(2, File \test-inotify.py\, line 6..., 39) = 39
...
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Re: [Python-Dev] Help with inotify
Bob Ippolito wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result. In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which apparently comes from posix_fdopen, PyFile_FromFile, fill_file_fields. Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as directories. OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python file object from my C (C++) code? Then instead of using python's fdopen I could just do it myself. Why do you need a file object for something that is not a file anyway? select.select doesn't require file objects for example, just objects that have a fileno() method. Yes, that's a good point - the reason is I didn't want to restrict the interface to only work with select. Maybe I should rethink the interface. ___ 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] Help with inotify
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result. In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which apparently comes from posix_fdopen, PyFile_FromFile, fill_file_fields. Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as directories. OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python file object from my C (C++) code? Then instead of using python's fdopen I could just do it myself. ___ 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] Help with inotify
Bob Ippolito wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result. In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which apparently comes from posix_fdopen, PyFile_FromFile, fill_file_fields. Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as directories. OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python file object from my C (C++) code? Then instead of using python's fdopen I could just do it myself. Why do you need a file object for something that is not a file anyway? select.select doesn't require file objects for example, just objects that have a fileno() method. Yes, that's a good point - the reason is I didn't want to restrict the interface to only work with select. Maybe I should rethink the interface. Well what would the interface do if you had a file object? Are you supposed to be able to read/write/seek/tell/etc.? I don't understand why you're trying to do what you're doing. select.select was just an example, select.poll's register/unregister takes any object with a fileno also. Yes, you are supposed to be able to read and get information. However, I have implemented fileno for it, so you can use select.select on it if you just want to wait for something to happen - which is probably all that's really needed. I also implemented select as a method of my inotify object, in case you prefer that. Here's an excerpt from documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt: - Events are provided in the form of an inotify_event structure that is read(2) from a given inotify instance. The filename is of dynamic length and follows the struct. It is of size len. The filename is padded with null bytes to ensure proper alignment. This padding is reflected in len. You can slurp multiple events by passing a large buffer, for example size_t len = read (fd, buf, BUF_LEN); Where buf is a pointer to an array of inotify_event structures at least BUF_LEN bytes in size. The above example will return as many events as are available and fit in BUF_LEN. Each inotify instance fd is also select()- and poll()-able. - ___ 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] python optimization
One possible way to improve the situation is, that if we really believe python cannot easily support such optimizations because the code is too dynamic, is to allow manual annotation of functions. For example, gcc has allowed such annotations using __attribute__ for quite a while. This would allow the programmer to specify that a variable is constant, or that a function is pure (having no side effects). ___ 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] Fwd: Distributed RCS
I encourage everyone to look at mercurial. It is also written in Python. I am using it daily. ___ 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] complex I/O problem
If I call print on a complex value, I may get this:
'(2+2j)'
But this is not acceptable as input:
complex ('(2+2j)')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
ValueError: complex() arg is a malformed string
Whatever format is used for output should be accepted as input!
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