Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone against having a loop option for regrtest?

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Jesse Noller writes: > >  > Any thoughts? Does anyone hate this idea with the power of a thousand suns? > > If somebody has the power of 1000 Suns at their disposal, maybe they > can contribute a few buildbots? > > Wishful-thinking-is-t

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone against having a loop option for regrtest?

2009-06-29 Thread Collin Winter
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > Something that's been helping me squirrel out "wacky" and "fun" bugs > in multiprocessing is running the tests in a loop - sometimes hundreds > of times. Right now, I hack this up with a bash script, but I'm > sitting here wondering if adding a

[Python-Dev] Anyone against having a loop option for regrtest?

2009-06-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jesse Noller writes: > Any thoughts? Does anyone hate this idea with the power of a thousand suns? If somebody has the power of 1000 Suns at their disposal, maybe they can contribute a few buildbots? Wishful-thinking-is-the-order-of-the-day-ly y'rs,

[Python-Dev] Anyone against having a loop option for regrtest?

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Noller
Something that's been helping me squirrel out "wacky" and "fun" bugs in multiprocessing is running the tests in a loop - sometimes hundreds of times. Right now, I hack this up with a bash script, but I'm sitting here wondering if adding a "loop for x iterations" option to regrtest.py would be usefu

Re: [Python-Dev] pthread sem PyThread_acquire_lock

2009-06-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> AFAIK, ignoring EINTR doesn't preclude the calling of signal handlers. This is my understanding as well - so I don't think Python actually "swallows" the signal. > A great example is reading from a socket. Whether or not it can be > interrupted depends on the platform, so catching Ctrl+C often

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376

2009-06-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> If no one objects, I'd like to push PEP 376 in the "accepted" status > and go ahead with its implementation, > with continuous feedback at Distutils-SIG as we did to build it. I think this isn't quite the process. In the past, every PEP required BDFL pronouncement, which you should now seek. Re

Re: [Python-Dev] pthread sem PyThread_acquire_lock

2009-06-29 Thread Phillip Sitbon
I'll do my best to try and explain/contribute, but please feel free to correct anything I get wrong. I believe the "swallowing" he's referring to is the ignoring of errno EINTR. I don't think that's the correct place to handle signals to begin with- why not just use the signal module to deal with

[Python-Dev] PEP 376

2009-06-29 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello, If no one objects, I'd like to push PEP 376 in the "accepted" status and go ahead with its implementation, with continuous feedback at Distutils-SIG as we did to build it. The next PEPs that are being discussed at Distutils-SIG are : - the new version of PEP 345 for the inclusion of field

Re: [Python-Dev] ndPython: I NEED TO TALK WITH ONE OF THE PYTHON CORE

2009-06-29 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090626 22:29], Terry Reedy (tjre...@udel.edu) wrote: >If you were running on a PC with what is now considered to be very small >memory, I would hypothesize that you had filled memory so that the >interpreter or parts thereof were being swapped in and out of memory >from and to disk. Is an

[Python-Dev] 2.4.7: Final 2.4 release

2009-06-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Python 2.4 will become 5 years old this November. I plan to make the final security release this month or next month. If you want to see additional patches in Python 2.4, please let us now, or commit them yourself if you can. Remember that only security fixes can be considered for inclusion, and p