Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Virgil Dupras wrote: On 2/19/08, Virgil Dupras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: closed_status = db.status.lookup('chatting') Oops, replace 'chatting' with 'closed' Ok, I ran the script. It said Low activity tickets (180 days) broken down per resolution status: - no selection -547 wont fi

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> It must have changed since I last looked at a feature request on the >> tracker - using a type rather than keyword is fine by me. > > I'm fairly certain the rfe type was there ever since the switchover > (at least that's what subversion says: the rfe type was added along

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Quentin Gallet-Gilles
I consider a feature request something like asking a factorial method ( http://bugs.python.org/issue2138). As for the RFE, (from Wikipedia) "while not technically a bug, it is often tracked in the same manner as a bug as it represents a failure to meet expected behavior, or simply out of convenienc

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 20 Feb, 17:39, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure, I've seen more than one library and server supporting > > the CCC command. > > For example proftpd and tnftpd servers support it. > > But does anyone use it? > It is useful to permit passive connection behind firewall dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Feb 20, 2008 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. >>> Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: Wha

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Raghuram Devarakonda
> > Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should > > it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than > > "request for enhancement") > > > > "feature request"? How about calling it just "enhancement"? ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:37:42PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: > How about marking already submitted patches as easy to get help > reviewing? For instance, there are a bunch of test rewrites to move > old tests to unittest where it would be rather nice to have another > pair of eyes make sure that t

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Feb 20, 2008 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. > > > > Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should > > it be cal

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> It must have changed since I last looked at a feature request on the > tracker - using a type rather than keyword is fine by me. I'm fairly certain the rfe type was there ever since the switchover (at least that's what subversion says: the rfe type was added along with all other types in r52825

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. > > Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should > it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than > "request for enhan

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Feb 20, 2008 8:03 AM, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a bug day this Saturday. Join us on IRC and let's see how > many issues we can clear up. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay for more. > > There are currently 69 bugs marked as 'easy', which is probably more > tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than "request for enhancement") > Also I find that, by definition, RFE and feature requests are not >

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Janssen
> > I suggest using socket.dup(sslsock) to simply create a non-encrypted > > copy of the socket, and switch to using that copy. There's no way to > > "unwrap" an SSLSocket. > > It does not seem to work: > > File "C:\python26\lib\ssl.py", line 115, in read >return self._sslobj.read(len) > ss

Re: [Python-Dev] New math functions

2008-02-20 Thread Isaac Morland
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also, it would be useful to have a new method, float.is_integer(). This >> would be better than the current approach where we make the >> test: if x == floor(x). > > Ho

[Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
We have a bug day this Saturday. Join us on IRC and let's see how many issues we can clear up. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay for more. There are currently 69 bugs marked as 'easy', which is probably more than enough, but if you see anything that's suitable for a new developer, please

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-20 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > > I've now written up my testing and attached the write-up to issue 2039 > (http://bugs.python.org/issue2039). Nice work! Too often we (generic we) don't try to re-simplify code. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncr

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 20 Feb, 06:08, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest using socket.dup(sslsock) to simply create a non-encrypted > copy of the socket, and switch to using that copy. There's no way to > "unwrap" an SSLSocket. It does not seem to work: File "C:\python26\lib\ssl.py", line 115, in

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> If we're down to voting, here's my vote: >> >> +1 on removing the freelists from ints and floats, but not the >>small int sharing optimization >> >> +1 on focusing on improving pymalloc to handle int and float >>object allocations even bette

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> Problem is, we don't have an 'rfe' keyword anymore :) >>> >> Shall we grow one again? > > What's wrong with the rfe type? Why does it have to be a keyword? It must have changed since I last looked at a feature request on the tracker - using a type rather than keyword i

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Quentin Gallet-Gilles
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > What's wrong with the rfe type? Why does it have to be a keyword? > > For one it's the name. Personally I didn't know the meaning of RFE until > I googled it. > I agree, the name is a bit con