Re: [Python-Dev] infinities

2006-11-27 Thread Adam Olsen
On 11/26/06, tomer filiba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i found several places in my code where i use positive infinity (posinf) for various things, i.e., i like the concept, but i hate the 1e1 stuff... why not add posint, neginf, and nan to the float type? i find it much more readable as:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-27 Thread Jan Matejek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip J. Eby napsal(a): Just a suggestion, but one issue that I think needs addressing is the FHS language that leads some Linux distros to believe that they should change Python's normal installation layout (sometimes in bizarre ways) (...)

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-27 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:38 PM 11/27/2006 +0100, Jan Matejek wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip J. Eby napsal(a): Just a suggestion, but one issue that I think needs addressing is the FHS language that leads some Linux distros to believe that they should change Python's normal

Re: [Python-Dev] PyFAQ: thread-safe interpreter operations

2006-11-27 Thread Jason Orendorff
Way back on 11/22/06, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Coghlan schrieb: Martin v. Löwis wrote: I personally consider it good style to rely on implementation details of CPython; Is there a 'do not' missing somewhere in there? No - I really mean it. I can find nothing wrong

Re: [Python-Dev] PyFAQ: thread-safe interpreter operations

2006-11-27 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Jason Orendorff wrote: Way back on 11/22/06, Martin v. L?wis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Coghlan schrieb: Martin v. L?wis wrote: I personally consider it good style to rely on implementation details of CPython; Is there a 'do not' missing somewhere in there? No -

Re: [Python-Dev] PyFAQ: thread-safe interpreter operations

2006-11-27 Thread Jason Orendorff
On 11/27/06, Aahz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Jason Orendorff wrote: Way back on 11/22/06, Martin v. L?wis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I can find nothing wrong with people relying on reference counting to close files, for example. It's a property of CPython, and not

[Python-Dev] Cloning threading.py using processes

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Version 0.10 of the 'processing' package is available at the cheeseshop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/processing It is intended to make writing programs using processes almost the same as writing programs using threads. (By importing from 'processing.dummy' instead of 'processing' one can

Re: [Python-Dev] Distribution tools: What I would like to see

2006-11-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Talin schrieb: As far as rewriting it goes - I can only rewrite things that I understand. So if you want this to change, you obviously need to understand the entire distutils. It's possible to do that; some people have done it (the understanding part) - just go ahead and start reading source

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Phillip J. Eby schrieb: Actually, I meant that (among other things) it should be clarified that it's alright to e.g. put .pyc and data files inside Python library directories, and NOT okay to split them up. My gut feeling is that this is out of scope for the LSB. The LSB would only specify

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Jan Matejek schrieb: +1 on that. There should be a clear (and clearly presented) idea of how Python is supposed to be laid out in the distribution-provided /usr hierarchy. And it would be nice if this idea complied to FHS. The LSB refers to the FHS, so it is clear that LSB support for Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Distribution tools: What I would like to see

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Orr
On 11/27/06, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talin schrieb: As far as rewriting it goes - I can only rewrite things that I understand. So if you want this to change, you obviously need to understand the entire distutils. It's possible to do that; some people have done it (the

Re: [Python-Dev] Distribution tools: What I would like to see

2006-11-27 Thread Talin
Mike Orr wrote: On 11/27/06, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talin schrieb: As far as rewriting it goes - I can only rewrite things that I understand. So if you want this to change, you obviously need to understand the entire distutils. It's possible to do that; some people have done