Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1

2014-02-11 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Terry Reedy  wrote:
> On 2/11/2014 5:13 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> ...
>> I installed 64 bit 3.3.4 yesterday with no problem. I reran it today in
>> repair mode and again, no problem.
>>
>> With 64 bit 3.4.0, I get
>> "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program
>> required for the install to complete could not be run."
>>
>> No, the generic message does not bother to say *which* program :-(.
>>
>> 34 bit 3.4.0 installed fine.
>
>
> I wrote too soon.
>
> Python 3.4.0rc1 (v3.4.0rc1:5e088cea8660, Feb 11 2014, 05:54:25) [MSC
 import tkinter
> Traceback ...
> import _tkinter
> ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> So tkinter, Idle, turtle fail and the corresponding tests get skipped.
32 bit and 64 bit both work for me.  Windows 7.
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

2009-09-27 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Greg Ewing  wrote:
> Would you be kind enough to explain exactly what use
> case you have for retaining this information?
>
> Apologies if you've done so before -- I've been
> trying to follow this discussion, but that point
> doesn't seem to have come through clearly.
Please don't apologize. It shouldn't matter how many times it's been
mentioned on the mailing list.
 The PEP process is intended to summarize the discussion. A PEP should
pretty much stand alone, with specific external links when necessary.
 The use case should be added to the PEP.
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Re: [Python-Dev] Replacing IDLE

2009-11-11 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Greg Ewing
 wrote:
> Seems to me the only kind of IDE that it makes sense to
> ship with Python is one that is written in Python and
> maintained by the core developers. Anything else is best
> left as a third party package for download by those
> who want to use it.
>
> Tkinter is arguably not a very good basis for it from a
> technical point of view, but so far all the alternatives
> are too bloated and/or nonportable to consider bundling
> with the standard distribution.
>
> So the only realistic alternatives at the moment seem
> to be either IDLE+Tkinter or nothing.
>
 My immediate reaction? What about stdwin?
 Then I found this:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-October/010113.html
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Re: [Python-Dev] IDLE as default Python editor

2009-11-11 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Fred Drake  wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Echo  wrote:
>> We just need a PyEmacs. Written in python, extensible in elist and
>> python. Nice and simple ;-D
> I'd even give up the elisp support if I could have Python in my Emacs.
Have you tried Pymacs?
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Re: [Python-Dev] Re: marshal / unmarshal

2005-04-14 Thread David Robinow
On 4/11/05, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Heh.  I have a vague half-memory of _some_ box that stored the two
> 4-byte "words" in an IEEE double in one order, but the bytes within
> each word in the opposite order.  It's always something ...
 I believe this was the Floating Instruction Set on the PDP 11/35.
The fact that it's still remembered 30 years later shows how unusual it was.
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