Re: [Python-Dev] www/svn python.org status update

2009-08-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The following sites are up again on a new machine I'd like to thank the people who have helped getting the temporary machine up: Thomas Wouters spent much of his day at XS4ALL, where he was helped by Gerben Schepers (who also provided the hardware). Sean Reifschneider provided the backups (from

Re: [Python-Dev] www/svn python.org status update

2009-08-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What's the last revision supposed to be? I keep a somewhat regularly > updated full sync of the Python repo. We don't know exactly; python-checkins has recorded r74352. If anybody has a more recent checkout (svn info .), please speak up. Regards, Martin _

Re: [Python-Dev] www/svn python.org status update

2009-08-08 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:22, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > svn.python.org was deliberately not brought up again.  The backups > were a few hours behind and missing the ~10 most recent commits.  Not > disastrous, but it could probably mess up people's SVN trees, so after > some IRC discussion, the decisio

[Python-Dev] www/svn python.org status update

2009-08-08 Thread A.M. Kuchling
The following sites are up again on a new machine, but cannot be updated through SVN hooks or whatever mechanism: www.python.org docs.python.org www.jython.org planet.python.org planet.jython.org svn.python.org was deliberately not brought up again. The backups were a few hours behind and missin

Re: [Python-Dev] (try-except) conditional expression similar to (if-else) conditional (PEP 308)

2009-08-08 Thread Xavier Morel
On 8 Aug 2009, at 08:02 , Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:22:14 pm Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: Unless I am very much mistaken, this is the approach Ruby takes. Everything is an expression. For example, the value of a block is the value of The last expression in the block. Copyi

Re: [Python-Dev] (try-except) conditional expression similar to (if-else) conditional (PEP 308)

2009-08-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steven D'Aprano writes: > It's not immediately obvious to me why the last expression should be > given that privileged rule. Why not the first expression? Or the second, for that matter. So find a large body of Lisp code and run "grep -r prog1 | wc", "grep -r prog2 | wc", and "grep -r progn |

Re: [Python-Dev] expy: an expressway to extend Python

2009-08-08 Thread Stefan Behnel
Yingjie Lan wrote: > This is to announce the initial release of expy 0.1.0. > > More details at http://expy.sourceforge.net/ I'm clearly biased, but my main concern here is that expy requires C code to be written inside of strings. There isn't any good editor support for that, so I doubt that exp