Re: [Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
> I had been approached to do the exact same thing, are you trying to > back port the trunk version (2.6) or py3000? I'm trying to backport from 2.6. It appears that the buffer stuff is completely new though (backported from Python 3.0). S ___ Python

[Python-3000] Backporting multiprocessing?

2008-10-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
I'd like to try backporting the multiprocessing module to Python 2.4. My first problem appears to be the reliance on a complete(?) rewrite of the buffer stuff. Any clues about transforming this code would be much appreciated. (Note: I'm backporting because the Python 2.6 version appears to be mu

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
> P.S.: If opening files on Linux is now to be semantically meaningful, > then the documentation on that section also needs to change. Currently > it appears to mean that it's a meaningless specification that will be > ignored unless you happen to be using the MSWindows platform. I just checked

Re: [Python-3000] __format__ and datetime

2007-09-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Given how long strftime has been around I think %f is fine. We may > even influence the future of the C library. :-) Patch for datetime (py3k only at this point, no tests either) here: http://bugs.python.org/issue1158 Skip ___ Python-3000 mailing