Re: [Python-Dev] Pickling buffer objects.

2005-04-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Greg Ewing wrote: > Wouldn't this mean you're only solving half the problem? > Unpickling a Numeric array this way would still use an > intermediate string. Precisely my concern. Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] Pickling buffer objects.

2005-04-18 Thread Greg Ewing
Travis Oliphant wrote: I'm proposing to pickle the buffer object so that it unpickles as a string. Wouldn't this mean you're only solving half the problem? Unpickling a Numeric array this way would still use an intermediate string. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +---

[Python-Dev] Pickling buffer objects.

2005-04-18 Thread Travis Oliphant
Before submitting a patch to pickle.py and cPickle.c, I'd be interested in knowing how likely to be accepted a patch that allows Python to pickle the buffer object. The problem being solved is that Numeric currently has to copy all of its data into a string before writing it out to a pickle.

RE: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15[draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> == > Summary Announcements > == Executive summary: Hudson goes wild fixing obscure bugs. > --- > New python-dev summary team > --- > > This summary marks the first by the team of Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15 [draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Walter Dörwald
Tim Lesher sagte: > Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of April. > Please send any corrections or suggestions to > the summarizers. > [...] > > Unicode byte order mark decoding > >

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15 [draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Brett C.
Tim Lesher wrote: > Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of > April. Please send any corrections or suggestions to the summarizers. > > == > Summary Announcements > == > > --- > New python-dev summary

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15 [draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005, Tim Lesher wrote: > > Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of > April. Please send any corrections or suggestions to the summarizers. Good show! One suggestion: might want to order threads in order of relevance to random python-dev readers (

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15 [draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Hudson
Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of > April. Please send any corrections or suggestions to the summarizers. > > == > Summary Announcements > == > > --- > New

Re: [Python-Dev] Security capabilities in Python

2005-04-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Eyal Lotem wrote: I would like to experiment with security based on Python references as security capabilities. Unfortunatly, there are several problems that make Python references invalid as capabilities: * There is no way to create secure proxies because there are no private attributes. * Lots of

[Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-04-01 through 2005-04-15 [draft]

2005-04-18 Thread Tim Lesher
Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of April. Please send any corrections or suggestions to the summarizers. == Summary Announcements == --- New python-dev summary team --- Th

[Python-Dev] Fwd: CFP: DLS05: ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium

2005-04-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
See you all at OOPSLA! -- Forwarded message -- From: Roel Wuyts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 17, 2005 10:59 PM Subject: CFP: DLS05: ACM Dynamic Languages Symposium To: python-announce-list@python.org CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE ACM Dynamic Langua