[Python-Dev] resurrected modindex

2007-10-26 Thread skip
A long time ago I wrote a redirector to note and display the most frequently requested modules from the library reference manual's global module index. When Georg Brandl did his massive rewrite of the Python manuals that broke. I finally took the time this evening to resurrect that function. The r

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-10-26 Thread skip
Barry> I don't think any one solution will work for everybody. I'm not Barry> even sure we can define a common API a la the DBAPI, but if Barry> something were to make it into the standard distribution, that's Barry> the direction I'd go in. I've been working on a lockfile module

Re: [Python-Dev] Deadlock by a second import in a thread

2007-10-26 Thread Brett Cannon
On 10/25/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/10/25, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > BTW, I'll leave the optimization of importing strptime one time, > > there's no reason to try to import it everytime strptime() is called. > > No, I'm not. In consideration to the possib

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-26 Thread michael macdonald
I come from a corporate IT background working as a drone in large businesses, starting about 30 years ago (argh!). I come from an IBM mainframe background, but with constant exposure and interfaces with other platforms, and writing code with a variety of languages and scripting languages throughou

[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-10-26 Thread Tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/19/07 - 10/26/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1311 open (+18) / 11509 closed (+18) / 12820 total (+36) Open issues with patches: 414 Average durati

[Python-Dev] SSL 1.10, to fix client-side bug

2007-10-26 Thread Bill Janssen
I've updated the PyPI SSL package to 1.10, to fix a fairly serious bug in sendall() I found while updating the trunk code. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl/ Bill ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Deadlock by a second import in a thread

2007-10-26 Thread Facundo Batista
2007/10/26, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First of all I don't understand what you mean with "that some imports > are inside the call() function". Please elaborate on it. I'm talking about the "call" function defined in the _sre.c file. This function has a call to PyImport_Import() insi

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Deadlock by a second import in a thread

2007-10-26 Thread Christian Heimes
Facundo Batista wrote: > Feel free to do it. But note, that some imports are inside the call() > function, this could have more implications that you see (at least I > saw) at first glance. CC to get Guido's attention First of all I don't understand what you mean with "that some imports are insid

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?

2007-10-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2007-10-26 05:41, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It's not clear that any of these implementations is going to be >> perfect. >> Maybe none ever will be. > > I would agree with this. You write a program and know you need to > implement som