[Python-Dev] help for a noob - version for a sharp ARM

2006-12-08 Thread David Boddie
On Fri Dec 8 08:07:16 CET 2006, Josiah Carlson wrote: > a Fred wrote: > > > > I'm looking for advice on stripping down Python for an SBC to run Numpy > > and Scipy. I have the following notes on the system > > > > We have code that requires recent versions of Numpy and Scipy. > > The processo

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Jordan Greenberg
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Or have we just hit the jackpot? Hi all, I've been lurking the list for a while (fun to know what you py-devs are up too!) but for this I have to speak up and give congratulations. You're all doing amazing work, and I think thats being reflected in these numbers. I know I

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Mike Krell
> I think this is Python's popularity. One factor is ready availability: > "normal" users don't build Python from source. So Windows users download > it from python.org, everybody else gets the binaries from the OS vendor. Another factor is that the ActiveState ActivePython distribution for Window

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> Have the ratios changed against past figures (too lazy to look them up now)? > > They did, but also because the statistics weren't updated correctly > until recently. Qualifying a bit further: the last month that apparently had nearly correct statistics before Septembe

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller schrieb: > Also interesting are the hits for 64-bit windows Pythons: > > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.amd64.msi (23192 hits) > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.ia64.msi (22523 hits) But maybe misleading, as well. People just don't understand Win64: the hardware guy told them they have "64-b

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all otherfiles?!

2006-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Terry Reedy schrieb: > How do the first two months downloads of 2.5.msi compare to 2.4.msi? It's actually publicly available: http://www.python.org/webstats/ Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum schrieb: > I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when > preparing for a keynote) and discovered that > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz > (47,898 hits). Are th

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Scott Dial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should ask yourself: > 1) Where else can people grab Python on Windows? > 2) Where else can people grab Python for [every other operating system]? > > Most distros are kind enough to provide their own mirror, I would say > that easily accounts for the

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all otherfiles?!

2006-12-08 Thread Josiah Carlson
> On 12/8/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fwiw, I've seen a 2.5x ratio for my stuff over the last year; I've always > > assumed > > that most people on other platforms are simply getting their stuff from the > > vendor's > > standard repository. I've noticed a similar thing, bu

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all otherfiles?!

2006-12-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guido van Rossum wrote: > That was the month of October. > > If people believe these numbers are real, we're doing great!!! 2.5 was of course released in september, so I assume that part of what you're seeing is simply tinkerers upgrading their existing installations. plotting weekly figures f

Re: [Python-Dev] [NPERS] Re: a feature i'd like to see in python #2: indexing of match objects

2006-12-08 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 8 Dec 2006, at 16:38, Josiah Carlson wrote: > My statement in the email you replied to above was to say that if we > wanted it to return a group, then we could include subsequent .group > (0) > with the same semantics as the original match object. And my reply was simply to point out that tha

Re: [Python-Dev] [NPERS] Re: a feature i'd like to see in python #2: indexing of match objects

2006-12-08 Thread Josiah Carlson
Alastair Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Dec 2006, at 21:47, Josiah Carlson wrote: > > If we were going to go with slicing, then it would be fairly > > trivial to > > include the whole match range. Some portion of the underlying > > structure > > knows where the start of group 2 is

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all otherfiles?!

2006-12-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
That was the month of October. If people believe these numbers are real, we're doing great!!! On 12/8/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > >I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when > > preparing for a keynote) and discovered that > > /f

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Thomas Heller
Guido van Rossum schrieb: > I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when > preparing for a keynote) and discovered that > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz > (47,898 hits). Are th

Re: [Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Dial
Guido van Rossum wrote: > What could cause this dramatic popularity of Python on Windows? You should ask yourself: 1) Where else can people grab Python on Windows? 2) Where else can people grab Python for [every other operating system]? Most distros are kind enough to provide their own mirror, I

[Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when preparing for a keynote) and discovered that /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? (The byte counts s

Re: [Python-Dev] [NPERS] Re: a feature i'd like to see in python #2: indexing of match objects

2006-12-08 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 7 Dec 2006, at 21:47, Josiah Carlson wrote: > Alastair Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7 Dec 2006, at 02:01, Josiah Carlson wrote: >>> Alastair Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7 Dec 2006, at 01:01, Josiah Carlson wrote: > If we don't want > slicing, or if prodicing

Re: [Python-Dev] [NPERS] Re: a feature i'd like to see in python #2: indexing of match objects

2006-12-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Talin wrote: > >> The original proposal was to make m[n] a synonym for m.group(n). >> "group()" is clearly map-like in its behavior. > > so have you checked what exception m.group(n) raises when you try to > access a group that doesn't exist ? The KeyError vs IndexError