Re: [Python-Dev] Add const to python API - issue 6952

2009-10-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I suggest following POSIX's lead and omitted the const in these cases. Thanks, that sounds reasonable. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread Steven Bethard
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Paul Moore wrote: >> 2009/10/20 Chris Withers : >> There are many (I believe) Windows users for whom bdist_wininst is >> just what they want. For those people, where's the incentive to switch >> in what yo

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread David Cournapeau
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/10/20 Chris Withers : >> I wouldn't have a problem if integrating with the windows package manager >> was an optional extra, but I think it's one of many types of package >> management that need to be worried about, so might be easier to ge

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/10/20 Stefan Krah : >> Hi, >> >> as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision >> C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module: >> >> http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html >> http://www.bytereef.org/fa

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:49:42 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > Can I repeat that in big letters? The key is a SINGLE DISTRIBUTION FORMAT. ok - but that pretty much exists.. > If you can persuade everyone to accept a format which ignores clearly > stated user requirements, go for it. But if you can't,

Re: [Python-Dev] Add const to python API - issue 6952

2009-10-20 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Barry Scott wrote: > Checking my patch I have two functions that need to > have output params changed to const to avoid casting. > >PyOS_strtoul- ptr >PyLong_FromString - pend > This is a no-win situation. If the string

Re: [Python-Dev] Add const to python API - issue 6952

2009-10-20 Thread Barry Scott
On 20 Oct 2009, at 04:35, Martin v. Löwis wrote: The patch I developed for comment only adds const to the input parameters and used casts to allow output parameters to stay without the const. What specific APIs are you talking about here? Checking my patch I have two functions that need to

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Moore
2009/10/20 Stefan Krah : > Hi, > > as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision > C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module: > > http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html > http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.html > > > Both the library and the module have been te

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:57, Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > >> The code was working a few months ago (with all Decimal tests > >> passing), but there have been some changes and bugfixes since > >> then. I might try to resurrect that code, dropping

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Moore
2009/10/20 Chris Withers : > I wouldn't have a problem if integrating with the windows package manager > was an optional extra, but I think it's one of many types of package > management that need to be worried about, so might be easier to get the > others working and let anyone who wants anything

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Eric Smith wrote: >> The code was working a few months ago (with all Decimal tests >> passing), but there have been some changes and bugfixes since >> then.  I might try to resurrect that code, dropping the _Decimal type and >> just concentrating on Deccoeff. > > M

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Eric Smith
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Mark Dickinson wrote: >>> This high-precision inefficiency could easily be fixed by >>> using a dedicated 'decimal natural number' extension >>> type for the Decimal coefficient, stored internally in base >>> a suitable power of 10. [...]

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:55, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why used this list. python-ideas: This list is to

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Withers
Chris Withers wrote: [following up on distutils-sig] ...FAIL, sorry for the noise. Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Withers
[following up on distutils-sig] Michael Foord wrote: Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst binaries. ...and many users may not be ;-) I know I'd be extremely unhappy if that were the case as I

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why used this list. python-ideas: This list is to contain discussion of speculative language ideas for

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread Stefan Krah
sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why used this list. Stefan Krah ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:27, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? IMO this question is appropriate for python-dev, not python-ideas. --David ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread sstein...@gmail.com
Shouldn't this be on python-ideas? S On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Krah wrote: Hi, as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module: http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.ht

[Python-Dev] Interest in integrating C decimal module into Python?

2009-10-20 Thread Stefan Krah
Hi, as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module: http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.html Both the library and the module have been tested extensively. Fastdec currently diffe

[Python-Dev] Volunteer needed to organize summits

2009-10-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
I'd like to turn over the organization of the VM and Python Language Summits at PyCon 2010 to someone else, one or two people. (The same person doesn't need to organize both of them.) Why: in November PyCon will be three months away, so the guest list needs to be finalized and the invitations nee

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: >> This high-precision inefficiency could easily be fixed by >> using a dedicated 'decimal natural number' extension >> type for the Decimal coefficient, stored internally in base >> a suitable power of 10. [...] > > Did

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc2

2009-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: I'm getting this warning. It seems nothing is actually broken, but the fix is pretty easy. gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unico

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
Mark Dickinson wrote: > This high-precision inefficiency could easily be fixed by > using a dedicated 'decimal natural number' extension > type for the Decimal coefficient, stored internally in base > a suitable power of 10. I think this may be worth > considering seriously. I'm not proposing this

Re: [Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c

2009-10-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Tim Peters wrote: > Don't want to hijack this thread, but this is the kind of use case > justifying keeping the 3-argument pow in the decimal module.  People > "playing" with number theory questions can learn a bag of tricks to > worm around that non-decimal arithm