Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-08-30 Thread Raymond Hettinger
I believe you may be overreacting - I don't consider the current behaviour buggy and the module level API can be added later. My preference is to remove the method entirely and then implement the approach in PEP 343 by adding a module level "localcontext()" function in

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-08-30 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Nick Coghlan wrote: > Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >> I would like to see the changes to the decimal module reverted for >> the Py2.5 release. > > > I believe you may be overreacting - I don't consider the current > behaviour buggy and the module level API can be added later. My preference is to

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
Raymond Hettinger wrote: > I would like to see the changes to the decimal module reverted for the > Py2.5 release. I believe you may be overreacting - I don't consider the current behaviour buggy and the module level API can be added later. That said, the docstring is definitely wrong, and I ca

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Maclaren
"Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a wrong time in the release process to take on chance on > discovering a flaky LONG_MIN on some box, so I want to keep the code > as much as possible like what's already there (which worked fine for > > 10 years on all known boxes) for now. No, i