Re: [Python-Dev] outstanding bugs to fix for 2.5

Neal Norwitz wrote: > http://python.org/sf/1513611 - XML: xml.sax.expatreader missing > > It would be great to fix *all* of these. In this list, at least 3 > (4?) can cause segfaults, and #1521947 can cause incorrect results. IMO, 1513611 should block the release, since it's a regression

[Python-Dev] remaining issues from Klocwork static analysis

I've fixed most of the problems (or determined they weren't problems) from all the warnings issued by Klocwork's static analysis tool. The following are outstanding issues. This first group looks like real problems to me: # 74 Object/funcobject.c:143Suspicious deref of ptr before NULL check

[Python-Dev] outstanding bugs to fix for 2.5

There are still a bunch of outstanding bugs. rc1 is about a week away and it would be great to fix these. Many of these are also present in 2.4, but it would be nice to squash them in 2.5. Here's the list from PEP 356: http://python.org/sf/1526585 - SystemError concat long strings (2.4)

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 12:04 PM 7/25/2006 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: >>Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> >>>When I say "name checker" I mean the Zope type that allows you to specify >>>a list of names that are allowed for a given object. This allowing is not >>>based on identity or code signing or anythi

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

At 12:04 PM 7/25/2006 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > > When I say "name checker" I mean the Zope type that allows you to > specify a > > list of names that are allowed for a given object. This allowing is not > > based on identity or code signing or anything like that. It's

Re: [Python-Dev] Strategy for converting the decimal module to C

Nick Maclaren wrote: > Er, no. Try a machine-check in a TLB miss handler. But it is all > pretty irrelevant, as the problem arises with asychronous exceptions > (e.g. timer interrupts, signals from other processes), anyway. But we weren't talking about asynchronous exceptions, we were talking a

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > When I say "name checker" I mean the Zope type that allows you to specify a > list of names that are allowed for a given object. This allowing is not > based on identity or code signing or anything like that. It's just a list > of attribute names: i.e. a capability mas

Re: [Python-Dev] setup.py and cross-compiling

Ed Swierk wrote: > Well, it seems buildroot solves this main problem by building another > version of python and pygen that run on the build machine, and hacks > the Makefile to run setup.py with these instead of whatever happens to > be sitting in /usr/bin. If you think its useful, please submit

Re: [Python-Dev] Document performance requirements?

Between the two of you, I think you have made the case that the language specification is better to not include such details. As you both note, it is difficult to capture the essence of what is desired from the performance of the implementation. To tag on other version, what about Big-O space c

Re: [Python-Dev] setup.py and cross-compiling

Ed Swierk wrote: > I decided to hack up setup.py so that an optional root directory (passed via > an > environment variable) is prepended to all the hardcoded paths like > "/usr/include", "/lib", "/lib64", and so on. I doubt this solves the problem. Distutils just doesn't support cross-compilatio

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4, VS 2005 & Profile Guided Optmization

"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Neil Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Trent Nelson: >> >>> I ended up playing around with Profile Guided Optimization, running >>> ``python.exe pystones.py'' to collect call-graph

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 11:07 PM 7/23/2006 +0100, David Hopwood wrote: >> Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> > At 01:00 PM 7/23/2006 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: >> > >> >> I obviously don't want to change the feel of Python, but if I have to >> >> remove the constructor for code objects to prevent evil byt

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4, VS 2005 & Profile Guided Optmization

"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Joe Smith wrote: > >> Microsoft as a general rule, does not go after people distributing >> products >> that Microsoft has labeled >> free, even after Microsoft no longer distributes that product. > > But if the licence a

[Python-Dev] setup.py and cross-compiling

I'm cross-compiling Python using uClibc buildroot, which installs target include files and libraries to a directory like ~/toolchain rather than /usr. I couldn't figure out any way to convincing the top-level python/setup.py to look in ~/toolchain instead of /usr when detecting what modules to bui

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

At 12:50 AM 7/24/2006 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: >OK, then I need something clarified. If you read >http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/TransitionToSecurityProxies > >, it t

[Python-Dev] Python sprint in Arlington July 29/30

The CanDo developers are sprinting for three days starting on this coming Friday, so there's space available for a Python sprint. I'll try to attend at least on Saturday (Sunday may not be possible for me). Does anyone want to come and work on Python stuff? If yes, please add your name to

Re: [Python-Dev] Document performance requirements?

Hi Giovanni, On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > I'm not sure big-O tells the whole truth. For instance, do we want to allow > an implementation to use a hash table as underlying type for a list? It > would match big-O requirements, but would still be slower than a pla

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

Brett Cannon wrote: > On 7/23/06, *Armin Rigo* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Also, I hate to sound self-centered, but I should point out somewhere > that PyPy was started by people who no longer wanted to maintain a fork > of CPython, and preferred to work on b

Re: [Python-Dev] Strategy for converting the decimal module to C

James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To cut a long story short, it is impractical for a language run-time > > system to call user-defined handlers with any degree of reliability > > unless the compiled code and run-time interoperate carefully - I have > > been there and done that many t

Re: [Python-Dev] new security doc using object-capabilities

On 7/23/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 09:27 PM 7/23/2006 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:When I say "name checker" I mean the Zope type that allows you to specify alist of names that are allowed for a given object.  This allowing is not based on identity or code signing or anything lik