Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for __new__

2005-03-05 Thread Steven Bethard
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:39:42 -0500, Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 March 2005, Nick Coghlan said: > > Steven Bethard has put together some text to add __new__ to the list of > > Basic Customisation methods in the language reference. Would one of the > > documentation folks care to take

[Python-Dev] ossaudiodev test failure

2005-03-05 Thread Greg Ward
I just discovered that the ossaudiodev test fails on Linux 2.6 with ALSA's OSS emulation layer. I'm pretty sure this can be blamed on ALSA (The difference is this: if you pass bogus sampling parameters to setparameters(), OSS will accept the request and set the hardware to something reasonable, wh

Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for __new__

2005-03-05 Thread Greg Ward
On 05 March 2005, Nick Coghlan said: > Steven Bethard has put together some text to add __new__ to the list of > Basic Customisation methods in the language reference. Would one of the > documentation folks care to take a look at it? I've tried to tighten up the text there and hopefully make it

Re: [Python-Dev] Memory Allocator Part 2: Did I get it right?

2005-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Brett C. wrote: Assuming a code review says the patch is sane, do we want to go with this garbage collection change? From past discussions I don't remember a consensus on acceptance or rejection, just lots of discussion about ripping out the hacks to allow freeing memory w/o holding the GIL (I