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

2009-08-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Antoine Pitrou wrote: Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Heimes
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

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

2009-08-13 Thread Georg Brandl
Nick Coghlan schrieb: Nick Coghlan wrote: Benjamin Peterson wrote: rant If python-dev was more interested, we would have a policy for this. *cough* /rant PEP 5 isn't enough? (I'll grant that PEP could probably do with mentioning the use of warnings.warn(DeprecationWarning) explicitly, but

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jan Matejek
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft MSDN

2009-08-13 Thread David Bolen
Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de 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

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

2009-08-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:23, Jan Matejek jan.mate...@novell.com 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),

[Python-Dev] PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals

2009-08-13 Thread Jesse Noller
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 -- http://us.pycon.org/2010/

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

2009-08-13 Thread Benjamin Peterson
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.