Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote: > > Now will I'll start verifying, adding tests, updating or closing as > needed the recently changed old issues, until I've taken a good look > at these. Then, if there's still time left before Saturday, I'll focus > on verifying/flaggi

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Jim Baker wrote: +1 on the cleanup: reading the bug description of http://bugs.python.org/issue1533164, this will also help Jython. Now I know why we see scenarios of package with setup.cfg with optimize=1: Indeed, this is a well-known issue. Many packages put an "optimize=1" in their setup.cf

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Jim Baker
+1 on the cleanup: reading the bug description of http://bugs.python.org/issue1533164, this will also help Jython. Now I know why we see scenarios of package with setup.cfg with optimize=1: Indeed, this is a well-known issue. Many packages put an "optimize=1" in their setup.cfg in order to solve i

Re: [Python-Dev] python seg faults

2009-02-11 Thread Aahz
One more thing: There's a mailing list specifically for help with C extensions, c...@python.org -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that c

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Brett Cannon
2009/2/11 Daniel (ajax) Diniz > Hi, > > Here's a status report about the digging. Thanks Benjamin, Antoine, > Martin, Raymond, Guilherme, Georg, Brett, Mark and everyone else for > helping :) > > Good: > Many requested assignments: >Thanks everyone that asked for bugs. If anyone else wants

[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1 planned for this Friday, Feb 13

2009-02-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A quick reminder that I am planning to release Python 3.0.1 this Friday, February 13. Thanks to y'all's hard work, we have no showstopper bugs at the moment. The 3.0 buildbots look mostly clean and green. If we can keep it this way for about

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Daniel (ajax) Diniz] Now will I'll start verifying, adding tests, updating or closing as needed the recently changed old issues, until I've taken a good look at these. Then, if there's still time left before Saturday, I'll focus on verifying/flagging more ancient ones. Thanks for your effort

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Hi, Here's a status report about the digging. Thanks Benjamin, Antoine, Martin, Raymond, Guilherme, Georg, Brett, Mark and everyone else for helping :) Good: Many requested assignments: Thanks everyone that asked for bugs. If anyone else wants more, just let me know :) Old issues closed

Re: [Python-Dev] python seg faults

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Coghlan
Sushant Sinha wrote: > I am running Python 2.5.4 compiled with gcc (Gentoo 4.3.2-r2 p1.5, > pie-10.1.5) 4.3.2 > > My program uses python interface to two C modules namely libnids > (pynids) and adns (adns-python). My program is written all in python. > When I run my program it aborts. As Martin s

Re: [Python-Dev] python seg faults

2009-02-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> So I am not sure where the error is. Any clue on where the bug possibly > may be: adns-python, pynids or python? Or how I should I go about > debugging this? This is out of scope for python-dev, but I give some clues anyway: - try finding out what kind of object is being released. Is it a good

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> At least IA32 and AMD64 have specific addressing modes where > it's possibile to use a multiplying factor of 1, 2, 4 or 8 for the > index register. > > I hope that compilers were smart enough to already used them. For x86, certainly (at least GCC does). For Thumb, certainly not: the compiler ca

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Martin v. Löwis v.loewis.de> writes: >> - efficient array indexing: they give shift-and-index back to >> Thumb mode, for a shift by 2, allowing to index arrays with >> 4-byte elements in a single instruction (rather than requiring >> a separate multipy-by-four). Again

Re: [Python-Dev] IDLE reading IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP on restart

2009-02-11 Thread Raghuram Devarakonda
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mitchell L Model wrote: > I have a patch for IDLE, but I've never submitted a patch before and not > quite sure of the procedure, despite reading the guidelines at > http://www.python.org/dev/patches/. But I'll be brave and persevere. The > question I have at the m

Re: [Python-Dev] Daily documentation builds

2009-02-11 Thread Neal Norwitz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:24 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:16:48PM -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote: >> I ran 2.6, 3.0, and 3.1 manually. 2.7 should get picked up on the >> next run. The problem is that regrtest.py -R hangs from time to time >> which caused the machine to run ou

[Python-Dev] python seg faults

2009-02-11 Thread Sushant Sinha
I am running Python 2.5.4 compiled with gcc (Gentoo 4.3.2-r2 p1.5, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.2 My program uses python interface to two C modules namely libnids (pynids) and adns (adns-python). My program is written all in python. When I run my program it aborts. Here is the stack when that happens: #0 0x0

[Python-Dev] IDLE reading IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP on restart

2009-02-11 Thread Mitchell L Model
I have a patch for IDLE, but I've never submitted a patch before and not quite sure of the procedure, despite reading the guidelines at http://www.python.org/dev/patches/. But I'll be brave and persevere. The question I have at the moment is should I only submit the patch vs. 3.1 or also for 3.

Re: [Python-Dev] Daily documentation builds

2009-02-11 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:16:48PM -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote: > I ran 2.6, 3.0, and 3.1 manually. 2.7 should get picked up on the > next run. The problem is that regrtest.py -R hangs from time to time > which caused the machine to run out of memory. Does anyone else have > regrtest.py -R hang fo

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Cesare Di Mauro
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Martin v. Löwis v.loewis.de> writes: >> - efficient array indexing: they give shift-and-index back to >> Thumb mode, for a shift by 2, allowing to index arrays with >> 4-byte elements in a single instruction (rather than requiring >> a separate multipy-by-four). Aga

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Martin v. Löwis v.loewis.de> writes: > - efficient array indexing: they give shift-and-index back to > Thumb mode, for a shift by 2, allowing to index arrays with > 4-byte elements in a single instruction (rather than requiring > a separate multipy-by-four). Again useful for JIT of array >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Coghlan
Cesare Di Mauro wrote: > It's not useful for CPython, since it's based on a loop which evaluates a > bytecode > at the time. > > You have to rewrite the virtual machine implementing a JIT compiler that > generates Thumb-EE instructions. But it's a big effort, since ceval.c works > in a > complet

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-acceleration instructions on ARM

2009-02-11 Thread Cesare Di Mauro
On Feb, 11 2009 at 04:11:AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 18:45, Benjamin Schwartz >> wrote: >> > ... >>> According to ARM [4]: >>> >>> """Jazelle RCT can be used to significantly reduce the code bloat >>> associated >>> with AOT and JIT compilatio

Re: [Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

2009-02-11 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Stephen Thorne wrote: > On 2009-02-10, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Daniel (ajax) Diniz >> wrote: >> >> > >> > If anyone is interested in being added as nosy for any category of >> > bugs, let me know and I'll do that as I scan the trac