Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On 10/7/08, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # This is a Python 3.x script to execute a python 2.x script by 2to3'ing it. > import sys > from lib2to3.refactor import RefactoringTool, get_fixers_from_package > > fixers = get_fixers_from_package('lib2to3.fixes') > options = dict(doctests_onl

Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Mark Hammond
> at such a script, which I promptly stopped looking at as soon as it > worked Which is quite obvious really given that: > # nuke ourselves from argv > del sys.argv[1] is removing the wrong value! Mark ___ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.

Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Mark Hammond
> > * Better support for 2to3 in distutils (specifically, the support in > > build_py is stale, plus 'build_scripts' and 'install_data' should > > convert > > .py files to py3k syntax.) > > Please do create a bug report for that. It sounds like it's easy to > fix. Yeah, build_py is fairly easy to

Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Mark Hammond
[when 2 mailing lists are not enough... :-] > I'm seeing that people are just starting to download and play with 3.0. > I expect that we'll start getting more feedback on conversion issues +1 from this direction too. pywin32 has recently started looking seriously at py3k, and while things are in

Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Do we need the full two weeks between rc's? If they are just other names for betas, yes. If they are true release candidates (in the sense of "we really want to release this as-is unless somebody tells us why this is a really bad idea"), then no. > Or is it too much of a pain > to cut releases

Re: [Python-3000] [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> More specifically, I think 2to3 is shaping up well. pywin32 is taking the > approach of "port where possible, but keep in py2x syntax and convert at > 'setup.py' time" and this is working out fairly well I can't say how glad I am that you say that. It supports lib2to3 being a proper library, de