> So, the question is what we should do?:
Before this question can be answered, I think we need to fully
understand what precisely is happening in 2.4, and what precisely
is happening in 2.5.
AFAICT, it is *not* the case that Python 2.4 (indirectly) has
hard-coded the names CON, PRN, NUL etc. in
Application programmers... Web programmers...
I can't resist chiming in that I'm running a 4000-line Python
application on my iPhone that is both a full-blown application, and a
Web server, because it uses the phone's browser as its application
GUI. (By the way, thanks to whoever pushed through
Nick> At least from my perspective, all the jobs are in web
Nick> applications, and all the Python developers I know are traditional
Nick> applications programmers, not web developers.
I find almost the opposite to be true. Most resumes I see with Python
experience are quite web-focu
On 10/12/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The problem may be related to the fact that Python is rarely teached at
> > school or university. I know no school or university in Germany that is
> > teaching Python.
>
> I teach Python to the first semester, at the Hasso-Plattner-Inst
2007/10/24, Nicholas Bastin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 10/12/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
> > (and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
> > :-). This is good news because it sugge
Fred Drake wrote:
> It's special, but in a different way. /dev/null really exists in the
> Unix filesystem; "nul" is more magical than that.
>
> What's more, it has peers: "prn", "com1" and others like that.
>
For the record, the fixed names 'aux', 'con', 'nul', and 'prn' along
with the set
Fred Drake wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Facundo Batista wrote:
>> There (and always talking in windows), the OP says the in Py2.4
>> os.path.exists("nul") returned True and now in 2.5 returns False. Note
>> that "nul" is an special file, something like /dev/null.
>
> It's special, but in
> So, the question is what we should do?:
>
> 1. Rely on the kernel32 function and behaves like it says?
>
> 2. Return a fixed response for this special file "nul"?
>
> Personally, I prefer the first one, but it changed the semantic of
> os.path.exists("nul") (but this semantic is not clear, as
On 10/12/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep getting regular requests from people looking for Python coders
> (and this is in addition to Google asking me to hand over my contacts
> :-). This is good news because it suggests Python is on the uptake
> (always good to know). At t
On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Facundo Batista wrote:
> There (and always talking in windows), the OP says the in Py2.4
> os.path.exists("nul") returned True and now in 2.5 returns False. Note
> that "nul" is an special file, something like /dev/null.
It's special, but in a different way. /dev/null
Hi, people!
I'm following the issue 1311: http://bugs.python.org/issue1311
There (and always talking in windows), the OP says the in Py2.4
os.path.exists("nul") returned True and now in 2.5 returns False. Note
that "nul" is an special file, something like /dev/null.
We made some tests, and we ha
Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2007/9/19, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I noticed that there is a background of light blue between marks. That is
>> hard to see on my computer because it is so close to the grey tone.
>
> Made it a little darker, now it's easier to look.
>
>
>> Also shouldn't
2007/10/12, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The plan is cut the release candidate around Tuesday/Wednesday next
> week (Oct 16/17). If all goes well, 2.5.2 final will follow a week
> later.
Hi Neal! Do you have any update of this schedule?
Thank you!
--
.Facundo
Blog: http://www.tani
2007/10/24, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've just received a private email from Christian Jacobsen (we were discussing
> some ctypes bugs/deficiencies that do not matter in this context). He wrote:
>
> ...
>
> I feel with him. Further, there is no 'Add a comment' or 'Suggest a change'
Thomas Heller schrieb:
> I've just received a private email from Christian Jacobsen (we were discussing
> some ctypes bugs/deficiencies that do not matter in this context). He wrote:
>
>> [...] The bug
>> reporting procedures for documentation is a big inconsistent:
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin
I've just received a private email from Christian Jacobsen (we were discussing
some ctypes bugs/deficiencies that do not matter in this context). He wrote:
> [...] The bug
> reporting procedures for documentation is a big inconsistent:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SubmittingBugs, says: "If you f
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