[Python-3000] gcc-4.3.1 builds Python-3.0b1 fine [was:failed to compile Python-3.0b1 with gcc-4.3.0: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams]

2008-06-21 Thread nirinA raseliarison
hello, on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:04:44 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:18 PM, nirinA raseliarison ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hello all, >> i tried to build Python3.0b1 but the make process hangs >> while running: > >Building with gcc 4.3 is buggy. See >http://mail.pytho

[Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Linda W.
This isn't meant to stir controversy -- I'm more curious than anything else. I was noticing some percentage (hard to say), that are less than excited about the next incompatible version of Perl 6. It's not that it may not 'better' in some design and orthogonal feature set, but its partly do t

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
Linda W. wrote: But *some* of thei things that may have attracted people to python or perl in the first place may be items replaced. Prints are no longer builtin statements, but functions in standard function format. Tends to 'unbeautify' the code a bit. A few other regularizing features ha

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Jesse Noller
On Jun 21, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linda W. wrote: But *some* of thei things that may have attracted people to python or perl in the first place may be items replaced. Prints are no longer builtin statements, but functions in standard function format.

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Aahz
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008, Linda W. wrote: > > This isn't meant to stir controversy -- I'm more curious than anything else. This is the wrong place for this discussion. Please use comp.lang.python (gateway of python-list). -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Neil Schemenauer arctrix.com> writes: > I wonder if it would make sense to start installing the Python > standard library as a .zip file by default. Some benefits would be > a tidier and more compact install and slightly faster startup times. Are any users complaining about Python's install size

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread James Thiele
I'm -1 on this as it would make more cumbersome to grep all the modules looking for something. James On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if it would make sense to start installing the Python > standard library as a .zip file by default. Some b

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 21, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Linda W. wrote: But *some* of thei things that may have attracted people to python or perl in the first place may be items replaced. Prints are no longer builtin statements, but functions in stan

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
Jesse Noller wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Care to give any examples of 'unbeautifying' other than the print statement -> print function conversion? I would tend to disagree that the new print function is less "pretty" - I've actually found it to

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
I think this would be a mistake by default -- being able to read the source *easily* (i.e. without any specific tools) is part of Python's success. However I think it would be useful to support this better for more easy creation of Python distributions embedded in other apps. E.g. at my previous j

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
Neil Schemenauer wrote: I wonder if it would make sense to start installing the Python standard library as a .zip file by default. Some benefits would be a tidier and more compact install and slightly faster startup times. One downside is that it becomes more difficult to look at the source of m

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
Guido van Rossum wrote: I think this would be a mistake by default -- > being able to read the source *easily* (i.e. without any specific tools) is part of Python's success. For startup and import speed (and self-contained distributions), do not we only need a zip of the .pyc files? Not hav

Re: [Python-3000] Question to _users_ -- about over all perceptions/feelings

2008-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
1. Non-issue to me, real issues to some. 2. Wrong group, expecially if you want dissenting opinions ;-). 3. print: 3.0 normal 'file = xxx' is visually prettier than 2.x idiosyncratic line-noisy '>> xxx'. I also prefer new 'except TypeError as t' to old 'except TypeError,t' since latter falsel

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> I think this would be a mistake by default -- > >> being able to read the >> >> source *easily* (i.e. without any specific tools) is part of Python's >> success. > > For startup and import speed

Re: [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6b1 and 3.0b1

2008-06-21 Thread Leif Walsh
There is a typo on the download page (http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/): """The release plan is to have a series of alpha releases in 2007, beta releases in 2008, and a final release in September 2008. The alpha releases are primarily aimed at developers who want a sneak peek at the new la

[Python-3000] PEP 3134 exception reporting

2008-06-21 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, I have implemented PEP 3134 exception reporting in http://bugs.python.org/issue3112 The code is fully functional but it needs a final clean-up and that clean-up is awaiting answers to the following questions: 1) API visibility: should we expose a function PyErr_DisplaySingle in order to di

Re: [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6b1 and 3.0b1

2008-06-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Leif Walsh wrote: There is a typo on the download page (http://python.org/download/releases/3.0/ ): Fixed, thanks! - -Barry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSF2G5nEjvBPtnXfVAQJbqwQ

Re: [Python-3000] stdlib as .zip by default, pydoc to view source?

2008-06-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For startup and import speed (and self-contained distributions), do not we only need a zip of the .pyc files? Not having those around would make browsing the .py files easier. Could tracebacks be mak