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

2008-10-08 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] A plus for naked unbound methods

2008-10-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
Terry Reedy wrote: >> In the case of the comparison methods, they're being retrieved from type >> rather than object. This difference is made clear when you attempt to >> invoke the retrieved method: >> > object.__cmp__(1, 2) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "", line 1, in >> Ty

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] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-08 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Dmitry Vasiliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, I think the following issues should be also marked as release blockers: Agreed and done. > > - http://bugs.python.org/issue3714 (nntplib module broken by str to > unicode conversion) > - http://bugs.python.org/is