[Python-Dev] Any reason why CPPFLAGS not used in compiling?

2004-12-04 Thread Brett C.
I noticed that Makefile.pre.in uses the value from the environment variable LDFLAGS but not CPPFLAGS. Any reason for this? ``./configure -h`` lists both (and some other environment variables which are not really used either) so it seems a little misleading to have those listed but to not utili

[Python-Dev] Re: Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-04 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Hmph. The xmllib module has been deprecated since Py2.0 but is not > listed in PEP 4. > > Question: Do we have to keep it for another two years because of that > omission? > > It seems somewhat silly to keep an obsolete, supplanted module that > doesn't full support XM

[Python-Dev] Deprecated xmllib module

2004-12-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Hmph. The xmllib module has been deprecated since Py2.0 but is not listed in PEP 4. Question: Do we have to keep it for another two years because of that omission? It seems somewhat silly to keep an obsolete, supplanted module that doesn’t full support XML 1.0. Raymond __

[Python-Dev] Py2.5: Deprecated Cookie classes and interface

2004-12-04 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Any objections to removing Cookie.Cookie, Cookie.SmartCookie, and Cookie.SerialCookie?     Raymond ___ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mail

[Python-Dev] RE: test_shutils.py fails for 2.4 install

2004-12-04 Thread Edward C. Jones
The relevant bug appears to be 1076467 at SourceForge. ___ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib whrandom.py, 1.21, NONE

2004-12-04 Thread Tim Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Removed Files: >whrandom.py > Log Message: > Remove the deprecated whrandom module. Woo hoo! It's about friggin' time . ___ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: __source__ proposal

2004-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
[Resend, since a minor brain explosion caused me to send this to c.l.p instead of python-dev] Stelios Xanthakis wrote: It appears that there are the 'module people' who find this feature irrelevant. Indeed. If we are interested in distributing modules and increasing the number of people who use p

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: __source__ proposal

2004-12-04 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Stelios Xanthakis wrote: The key point is that I think think should be the job of the parser and the functionality provided at the interactive prompt w/o the user having to write 'dyndef' or store the code of exec's or request from himself to use specific commands to create functions. It should be

Re: [Python-Dev] test_shutils.py fails for 2.4 install

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Hudson
"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a PC with an AMD cpu and Mandrake 10.1. While installing Python > 2.4 "make test" failed in "test_shutils.py". Here is the output of > "./python ./Lib/test/test_shutil.py": Are you running 'make test' as root? Don't do that (although possibl

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: __source__ proposal

2004-12-04 Thread Stelios Xanthakis
I'm opposed to this idea. It creates overhead in the size of .pyc files, No it doesn't. for no additional value that couldn't be obtained otherwise. Martin: I know it is possible to do all this with existing python facilities. I did write such a dynamic code framework in python. Specifically I u

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: __source__ proposal

2004-12-04 Thread holger krekel
[Stelios Xanthakis Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:59:30PM +0200] > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, holger krekel wrote: > >We are about to test out this approach with the py lib > >(http://codespeak.net/py) and want to have it work for > >for Python 2.2, 2.3. and 2.4. > > Do you plan hacking python ? > It appears th