On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:32:55 +, Floris Bruynooghe
wrote:
> If I write a shared library under C I am expected to install it under
> one of the default locations if I don't want to require people to have
> to tweak things before they can use it. I see no difference with
> python modules or pac
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> [..]
>>> I've refactored distutils/ and site.py so they work with this new
>>> module, and added deprecation warnings in distutils.sysconfig.
>>
>> I think we really need to do something about these kinds of
>> deprecati
Tarek wrote:
> How would you use it when a list is returned ? Can you provide a few
> examples where
> the code wants to know the default architecture for the current platform ?
> etc.
The consumer could enumerate over it and then do whatever they were doing
w/ the platform multiple times. If an
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
>> If argparse doesn't do this, then I think at least it should give good
>> error messages for all cases where these optparse-isms remain. For
>> instance, now if you include %prog in your usage you get: ValueError:
>> unsu
/me starting a new thread because this goes beyond argparse itself
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Steven Bethard gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Because people are continuing this discussion, I'll say again that
>> argparse already supports this:
>
> Well I think the point is
Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM, sstein...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>>> Although I am of the people who think working modules shouldn't be
>>> deprecated, I also don't think adding compatibility aliases is a good
>>> idea. They only make the APIs more bloated and maintenance more t
Michael Foord wrote:
> On 15/12/2009 11:23, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Karen Tracey wrote:
>>
>>> In testing some existing code with the 2.7 alpha release, I've run into:
>>>
>>> TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
>>>
>>> when the existing code tries to pass unicode obje
On 15/12/2009 11:23, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Karen Tracey wrote:
In testing some existing code with the 2.7 alpha release, I've run into:
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
when the existing code tries to pass unicode objects to hashlib.sha1 and
hashlib.md5. This
Karen Tracey wrote:
> In testing some existing code with the 2.7 alpha release, I've run into:
>
> TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
>
> when the existing code tries to pass unicode objects to hashlib.sha1 and
> hashlib.md5. This is, I believe, due to changes made for
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
[..]
>
>> > I don't think they belong in this PEP; they are a property of the OS
>> > install/version, not of the specific Python install/version.
>
> I think the “sysconfig” specification should allow for *extension*,
> without needing a modified
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Dino Viehland wrote:
[..]
> How would you know what other architectures would be valid to pass in
> here? Returning a list would let the implementation say that it knows
> a certain set of architectural binaries are valid.
How would you use it when a list is retu
Steven Bethard gmail.com> writes:
>
> Because people are continuing this discussion, I'll say again that
> argparse already supports this:
Well I think the point is that if there is a default, the default should be
sensible and not run against expectations.
It would probably be fine not to have
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:39:02PM -0500, David Lyon wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:36 +1100, Mark Hammond
>
> wrote:
> But under windows, an application developer might (as in probably
> would) like to install an application in \Program Files\someapp
> rather than hidden in the
Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Sure; I guess that would work too, especially if there's a preference
> for hg over
> svn. It might be nice to have the commit history in the official
> repository, though.
Using an SVN branch also means the checkins can be reviewed as they go
by on python-checkins. I'll
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