Re: [Python-3000] Patch for Doc/tutorial

2007-09-02 Thread Robin Stocker
Paul Dubois schrieb: > Attached is a patch for changes to the tutorial. I made it by doing: > > svn diff tutorial > tutorial.diff > > in the Doc directory. I hope this is what is wanted; if not let me know > what to do. > > Unfortunately cygwin will not run Sphinx correctly even using 2.5, much

Re: [Python-3000] Ambiguity in PEP 3115 and the args to __prepare__

2007-09-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On 9/2/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PEP 3115 says a metaclass' __prepare__ takes two positional arguments, > > name and bases. But the example has it actually accept an arbitrary > > number of arguments: name and then ever

Re: [Python-3000] Windows registry question from blog

2007-09-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> FWIW, this is what I do for the ActivePython (and Komodo) installers: > only do the PATHEXT, PATH and file association changes by default in > final releases and require the user to select that for alpha/beta > releases. That's actually worth something; I'll see whether I can find the time to ch

Re: [Python-3000] Windows registry question from blog

2007-09-02 Thread Trent Mick
> > > Obviously then the logical choice would be to unselect that (or > > > perhaps have it unselected by default for alpha installations). > > > > I'd rather have the user unselect it - people installing multiple > > Python version are familiar with the phenomenon and might get puzzled > > if some

Re: [Python-3000] Ambiguity in PEP 3115 and the args to __prepare__

2007-09-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 9/2/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PEP 3115 says a metaclass' __prepare__ takes two positional arguments, > name and bases. But the example has it actually accept an arbitrary > number of arguments: name and then everything else is bound to bases. > > Which happens to be true? I

Re: [Python-3000] Ambiguity in PEP 3115 and the args to __prepare__

2007-09-02 Thread Guilherme Polo
2007/9/2, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PEP 3115 says a metaclass' __prepare__ takes two positional arguments, > name and bases. But the example has it actually accept an arbitrary > number of arguments: name and then everything else is bound to bases. > > Which happens to be true? I've pla

[Python-3000] Ambiguity in PEP 3115 and the args to __prepare__

2007-09-02 Thread Brett Cannon
PEP 3115 says a metaclass' __prepare__ takes two positional arguments, name and bases. But the example has it actually accept an arbitrary number of arguments: name and then everything else is bound to bases. Which happens to be true? I'm too tired to even fully trust that I am reading the PEP c