[Python-Dev] Fwd: RFC - GoogleSOC proposal -cleanupurllib

2007-03-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Resending this; as i think my sf.net email alias got blocked by the python-dev. -- Forwarded message -- From: Senthil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mar 24, 2007 6:05 AM Subject: RFC - GoogleSOC proposal -cleanupurllib To: python-dev@python.org Hi All, I have written a proposal to

Re: [Python-Dev] Hindsight on Py_UNICODE_WIDE?

2007-03-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
1. In hindsight, what do you think about PEP 261, the Py_UNICODE_WIDE build option? On balance, has this been good, bad, or indifferent? What's good/bad about it? Unlike MAL, I think it was good choice, primarily for political reasons. People kept complaining that Python doesn't really

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: RFC - GoogleSOC proposal -cleanupurllib

2007-03-24 Thread Josiah Carlson
The original went through. You likely didn't get any responses because the proposal has text that is significantly longer than most other SoC proposals, and perhaps people just haven't had the time to read it yet. Also, I don't believe anyone else has posted the full text of their proposal

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: RFC - GoogleSOC proposal -cleanupurllib

2007-03-24 Thread Mike Brown
Senthil Kumaran wrote: I have written a proposal to cleanup urllib as part of Google SoC. I am attaching the file 'soc1' with this email. Requesting you to go through the proposal and provide any feedback which I can incorporate in my submission. From your proposal: 2) In all modules, Follow

[Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-24 Thread Lino Mastrodomenico
Hello everyone, I would like to participate as a student in google Summer of Code and I'm interested in feedback on a multimedia library for Python. The library I propose should have the following features: * the capability to extract and decompress video and audio from a few common

Re: [Python-Dev] SoC proposal: multimedia library

2007-03-24 Thread Terry Reedy
Lino Mastrodomenico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Is there any interest in a library of this kind (inside or outside of | the stdlib)? | Suggestions? Criticism? There is a Python wrapping of the cross-platform Simple Directmedia Library (C) that is a major part of

Re: [Python-Dev] Final (final?) update to patch about socket timeout...

2007-03-24 Thread Facundo Batista
Facundo Batista wrote: Tests failed because of this commit *only* in alpha Tru64 5.1 trunk buildbot. Also it fails in g4 osx.4 trunk. In all the other platforms it works ok. As usual, human error. Now I used the already present threading custom testing architecture in test_socket.py, and