Re: [Python-Dev] request for comments - standardization of python's purelib and platlib

Hi Jan, It's not impossible, but you have some dependencies. If you can patch distutils within Suse, then it mightn't be so difficult. Distutils is not much more than a file copier. Inside distutils, a lot of the paths that you are talking about are hardcoded. > One, python depends on the "lib

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.1.1 Release Candidate

On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the first release candidate of Python 3.1.1. This bug fix release fixes many normal bugs and several critical ones including potential data corruption in the io library. The final version should be out within the next week. Python

[Python-Dev] PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals

Yup! It's that time again, I'm encouraging anyone involved in core development, or wanting to talk about core development - or python-core internals to submit talk proposals. Lots of people have expressed interest in such talks. -jesse Call for proposals -- PyCon 2010 --

Re: [Python-Dev] request for comments - standardization of python's purelib and platlib

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:23, Jan Matejek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm cross-posting this to distributi...@freedesktop and python-dev, > because the topic is relevant to both groups and should be solved in > cooperation. > > The issue: > > In Python's default configuration (on linux), both purelib (l

Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

Christian Heimes writes: > Steve Holden wrote: >> I sent fourteen requests for licenses in to Microsoft. I've asked them >> to let me know which they grant (since they may choose to limit the >> number) and will inform you all personally when I hear their decision. > > I've received my MSDN subsc

[Python-Dev] request for comments - standardization of python's purelib and platlib

Hello, I'm cross-posting this to distributi...@freedesktop and python-dev, because the topic is relevant to both groups and should be solved in cooperation. The issue: In Python's default configuration (on linux), both purelib (location for pure python modules) and platlib (location for platform

Re: [Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken?

Nick Coghlan schrieb: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> >>> If python-dev was more interested, we would have a policy for this. *cough* >>> >> >> PEP 5 isn't enough? (I'll grant that PEP could probably do with >> mentioning the use of warnings.warn(DeprecationWarning) explici

Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

Steve Holden wrote: I sent fourteen requests for licenses in to Microsoft. I've asked them to let me know which they grant (since they may choose to limit the number) and will inform you all personally when I hear their decision. I've received my MSDN subscription today. Everybody watch out for

Re: [Python-Dev] [issue6673] Py3.1 hangs in coroutine and eats up all memory

Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Stefan Behnel behnel.de> writes: >> IMHO, that's pretty far from obvious when you look at the code. > > A "yield" wrapped in a list comprehension looks far from obvious IMO anyway, > whether in 2.x or 3.x. It's this kind of "smart" writing tricks people find > that > only