Re: [Python-Dev] Failing tests: marshal, warnings

2005-03-07 Thread Michael Hudson
Greg Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 06 March 2005, I said: I'll check this in and merge to the trunk once I see all tests passing. Checked in on 2.4 branch. Not merged to trunk since Raymond hasn't merged his stuff to the trunk yet. I don't think that code is going onto HEAD. Cheers,

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal returning NotImplemented (or not)

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
Greg Ewing wrote: Is there some reason why Context couldn't invoke the binary operator methods using binary operators, rather than calling their methods directly? I had a similar idea, but then I remembered that the whole point of invoking the methods through a specific Context is to override the

Re: [Python-Dev] Migrating to subversion

2005-03-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 14:16, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I don't know whether anybody has done this before, but I just tried to run cvs2svn on the Python repository. The conversion took 7 hours, and the result is now available at http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/python/branches/ Because of

Re: [Python-Dev] Migrating to subversion

2005-03-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Barry Warsaw wrote: I personally have had no success doing this, but the last time I tried was with a fairly old version of svn. It gives an error message when you try. You then need to interpret the error message, retry, and it gives you another error message. You do this three times, and end up

Re: [Python-Dev] Migrating to subversion

2005-03-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Greg Ward wrote: Presumably for Python's repository, this would work: cvs2svn -s /home/svn/python /home/cvs/python/python ...except, umm, isn't distutils a separate top-level directory in the Python repository or something? Ok. Removing the CVSROOT before the conversion (from CVS) or after the

[Python-Dev] Urllib code or the docs appear wrong

2005-03-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
It seems to me that either urllib's docs are wrong or its code is wrong w.r.t. how the User-agent header is handled. In part, the docs say: By default, the URLopener class sends a User-Agent: header of urllib/VVV, where VVV is the urllib version number. Applications can define their

[Python-Dev] Re: Documentation for __new__

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Holden
Greg Ward 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 a look at it? I've tried to tighten up the text there and

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Documentation for __new__

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2005, Steve Holden said: Just to offer alternatives: Cool, I liked some of your changes. I'm happy with this doc change. Will checkin Doc/ref/ref3.tex on 2.4 branch and merge to trunk shortly. Greg -- Greg Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gerg.ca/

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules ossaudiodev.c, 1.35, 1.36

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2005, Anthony Baxter said: Um, unless I misread this, you added new attributes to the ossaudiodev objects in the 2.4 branch. Please don't do this - this is a new feature, and suddenly people who want to use those new attributes have to either test for version = 2.4.1, or else do a

Re: [Python-Dev] Migrating to subversion

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2005, Martin v. Löwis said: OTOH, I wonder whether the distutils CVS needs to be converted at all, or whether it would be sufficient to only migrate the python module (in which case your approach would be sufficient). The last time I looked (late 2000), there was useful content in

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Useful thread project for 2.5?

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 06 March 2005, Fazal Majid said: Since I started this, I might as well finish it. I do have some Python developer experience (hey, I even voted for comp.lang.python back when...) but not in the core interpreter itself. What would be *really* spiffy is to provide a way for

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules ossaudiodev.c, 1.35, 1.36

2005-03-07 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005, Greg Ward wrote: D'ohhh -- busted! My only excuse is that the lack of these attributes was originally filed as a bug report, and I suddenly realized oops! new attributes == feature request just as I was checking the change in on 2.4. I'll revert the change on 2.4 if

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Useful thread project for 2.5?

2005-03-07 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:23 PM 3/7/05 -0500, Greg Ward wrote: On 06 March 2005, Fazal Majid said: Since I started this, I might as well finish it. I do have some Python developer experience (hey, I even voted for comp.lang.python back when...) but not in the core interpreter itself. What would be *really* spiffy

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Useful thread project for 2.5?

2005-03-07 Thread Tim Peters
[Greg Ward] What would be *really* spiffy is to provide a way for externally-triggered thread dumps. This is one of my top two Java features [1]. The way this works in Java is a bit awkward -- kill -QUIT the Java process and it writes a traceback for every running thread to stdout -- but it

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules ossaudiodev.c, 1.35, 1.36

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 12:14, Greg Ward wrote: D'ohhh -- busted! My only excuse is that the lack of these attributes was originally filed as a bug report, and I suddenly realized oops! new attributes == feature request just as I was checking the change in on 2.4. I'll revert the change on