Ian Bicking writes:
> Just for perspective, I don't know if I've ever wanted to deal with a URL
> like that.
Ditto, I do many times a day for Japanese media sites and Wikipedia.
> I know how it is supposed to work, and I know what a browser does
> with that, but so many tools will clean that
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
> Benjamin fixed the UserDict and ABC problem earlier today in r82155.
> It is now the same as it was in Py2.6.
Thanks, Benjamin!
-Fred
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Bill Janssen wrote:
> Considering that we've just released 2.7rc2, there are an awful lot of
> red buildbots for 2.7. In fact, I don't remember having seen a green
> buildbot for OS X and 2.7. Shouldn't these be fixed?
Thanks to some action by Ronald, my two PPC OS X buildbots are now
showing
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz
wrote:
> I can also appreciate what's been said in this thread a bunch of times: to my
> knowledge, nobody has actually shown a profile of an application where
> encoding is significant overhead. I believe that encoding _will_ be a
> significan
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
> This reminds me of the optimization ElementTree and lxml made in Python 2
> (not sure what they do in Python 3?) where they use str when a string is
> ASCII to avoid the memory and performance overhead of unicode.
An optimization that forces
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 15:32, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 6/22/2010 9:24 AM, Michael Urman wrote:
>> These are trivial functions;
>> I just don't fully understand why the capability isn't baked in.
>
> Possible reasons: They are special purpose functions easily built on the
> basic functions provided
On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
> This is a place where bytes+encoding might also have some benefit. XML is
> someplace where you might load a bunch of data but only touch a little bit of
> it, and the amount of data is frequently large enough that the efficiencies
> are impor
On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:07 PM, James Y Knight wrote:
> Yeah. This is a real issue I have with the direction Python3 went: it pushes
> you into decoding everything to unicode early, even when you don't care --
> all you really wanted to do is pass it from one API to another, with some
> well-defi
On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>>
>> This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a
>> string, it kinda worked most of the time
At 07:41 AM 6/23/2010 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Then my example above could be made polymorphic (for ASCII compatible
encodings) by writing:
[x for x in seq if x.endswith(x.coerce("b"))]
I'm trying to see downsides to this idea, and I'm not really seeing
any (well, other than 2.7 being almos
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> (2) Data sources.
>
> These can be functions that produce new data from non-string data,
> e.g. str(), read it from a named file, etc. An example is read()
> vs. write(): it's easy to create a (hypothetical) polymorphic stream
> object t
On 22/06/2010 19:07, James Y Knight wrote:
On Jun 22, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Similarly I'd expect (from experience) that a programmer using Python
to want to take the same approach, sticking with unencoded data in
nearly all situations.
Yeah. This is a real issue I have with th
On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> On 23/06/2010 00:03, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> IIRC this was because UserDict tries to be a MutableMapping but abcs
>>> require new style classes.
>>
>> Are there any use cases for UserList and UserDict in new
>> cod
On 22/06/2010 22:40, Robert Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
return constant.encode('utf-8')
So now you can write x.split(literal_as('&', x)).
This polymorphism is what we used in Python2 a lot to write
code that works for both Unico
On 23/06/2010 00:03, Greg Ewing wrote:
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
IIRC this was because UserDict tries to be a MutableMapping but abcs
require new style classes.
Are there any use cases for UserList and UserDict in new
code, now that list and dict can be subclassed?
Inheriting from list or di
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
IIRC this was because UserDict tries to be a MutableMapping but abcs
require new style classes.
Are there any use cases for UserList and UserDict in new
code, now that list and dict can be subclassed?
If not, I don't think it would be a big problem if they
were left o
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> It would be great if we could have something like the above as
> builtin method:
>
> x.split('&'.as(x))
As per my other message, another possible (and reasonably intuitive)
spelling would be:
x.split(x.coerce('&'))
Writing it as a helper
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> (1) Literals.
>
> If you write something like x.split('&') you are implicitly assuming x
> is text. I don't see a very clean way to overcome this; you'll have to
> implement some kind of type check e.g.
>
> x.split('&') if isinstance(x,
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> Never have externally maintained packages.
Seriously! I concur with this.
Fortunately, it's not a real problem in this case.
There's the (maintained) simplejson package, and the unmaintained json
package. And simplejson works with o
This effectively substitutes getgrouplist called on the current user
for getgroups. In 3.x, I believe the correct action will be to
provide direct access to getgrouplist which is while not POSIX (yet?),
is widely available.
As a policy, adding non-POSIX functions to the posix module is perfectl
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> return constant.encode('utf-8')
>>
>> So now you can write x.split(literal_as('&', x)).
>
> This polymorphism is what we used in Python2 a lot to write
> code that works for both Unicode and 8-bit strings.
>
> Unfortunately, this
Craig Younkins wrote:
> cgi.escape never escapes single quote characters, which can easily lead to a
> Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This seems to be known by many,
> but a quick search reveals many are using cgi.escape for HTML attribute
> escaping.
Did you file a bug report?
Bill
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Any "turdiness" (which I am *not* arguing for) is a natural consequence
> of the kinds of backward incompatibilities which were *not* ruled out
> for Python 3, along with the (early, now waning) "build it and they will
> come" optimism about a
Tres, I am a Python3 enthusiast and realist. I did not expect major
adoption for about 3 years (more optimistic than the 5 years of some).
If you are feeling pressured to 'move' to Python3, it is not from me. I
am sure you will do so on your own, perhaps even with enthusiasm, when
it will be g
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, James Y Knight wrote:
> The surrogateescape method is a nice workaround for this, but I can't help
> thinking that it might've been better to just treat stuff as
> possibly-invalid-but-probably-utf8 byte-strings from input, through
> processing, to output. It seem
Hello,
The method in question: http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html#cgi.escape
http://svn.python.org/view/python/tags/r265/Lib/cgi.py?view=markup # at
the bottom
"Convert the characters '&', '<' and '>' in string s to HTML-safe sequences.
Use this if you need to display text that might conta
On 6/22/2010 6:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:27 am Terry Reedy wrote:
3. Unicode disclaims direct representation of glyphic variants
(though again, exceptions were made for asian acceptance). For
example, in English, mechanically printed 'a' and 'g' are different
from m
On 6/22/2010 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a
string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you n
On 6/22/2010 9:24 AM, Michael Urman wrote:
By idempotent-when-possible, I mean to_bytes(str_or_bytes, encoding,
errors) that would pass an instance of bytes through, or encode an
instance of str. And of course a to_str that performs similarly,
passing str through and decoding bytes. While bytes(
On 6/22/2010 1:22 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
The thing that I have heard in passing from a couple of folks with
experience in this area is that some older software in asia would
present characters differently if they were originally encoded in a
"japanese" encoding versus a "chinese" encoding, e
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Brett Cannon wrote:
> [cc'ing Bob on his gmail address; didn't have any other address handy
> so I don't know if this will actually get to him]
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:54, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> It looks like simplejson 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 have been released:
>>
>
[cc'ing Bob on his gmail address; didn't have any other address handy
so I don't know if this will actually get to him]
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:54, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> It looks like simplejson 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 have been released:
>
> http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2010/03/10/simplejson-
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:24:28AM -0500, Michael Urman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 00:28, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Michael Urman writes:
> >
> > > It is somewhat troublesome that there doesn't appear to be an obvious
> > > built-in idempotent-when-possible function that gives back th
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [Just addressing one little issue here; generally I'm just happy that
> we're discussing this issue in such detail from so many points of
> view.]
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> [...] Would urljoin(b_base, b_subdir) => bytes and
>> urljoi
On Jun 22, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Similarly I'd expect (from experience) that a programmer using
Python to want to take the same approach, sticking with unencoded
data in nearly all situations.
Yeah. This is a real issue I have with the direction Python3 went: it
pushes you
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> Michael Urman writes:
>
> > It is somewhat troublesome that there doesn't appear to be an obvious
> > built-in idempotent-when-possible function that gives back the
> > provided bytes/str,
>
> If you want something idempotent, it's
On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> . There was a typo in
> abc.py which prevented it from raising errors when non new-style class
> objects were passed in.
For 2.x, that was probably a good thing, a happy accident
that made it possible to register existing mapping classes
as
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>
> This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a
> string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep
> track of text too and the func
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:31:13PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi writes:
> > unicode handling redesign. I'm stating my reading of the RFC not to defend
> > the use case Philip has, but because I think that the outlook that non-text
> > uris (before being percentencoded) ar
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> ..
> > Though, isn't that behavior of urllib.proxy_bypass another bug?
>
> I don't know. Ask Ronald.
Hmmm. I brought up the System Preferences panel on my Mac, and sure
enough, there's a checkbox, "Exclude s
2010/6/22 Raymond Hettinger :
>
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
>> 2010/6/22 Raymond Hettinger :
>>> There's an entry in whatsnew for 2.7 to the effect of "The UserDict class is
>>> now a new-style class".
>>> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Ronald Oussoren
wrote:
..
> Both are valid fixes, both have both advantages and disadvantages.
>
> Your proposal:
> * Reverts to the behavior in 2.6
> * Ensures that posix.getgroups and posix.setgroups are internally consistent
>
It is also very simple and since p
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi writes:
>
> > I'll definitely buy that. Would urljoin(b_base, b_subdir) => bytes and
> > urljoin(u_base, u_subdir) => unicode be acceptable though?
>
> Probably.
>
> But it doesn't matter what I say, since Guido has d
On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2010/6/22 Raymond Hettinger :
>> There's an entry in whatsnew for 2.7 to the effect of "The UserDict class is
>> now a new-style class".
>> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing
>> classes from old-style to
2010/6/22 Dirkjan Ochtman :
> I guess we can't put these changes into 2.7 anymore? How can we make
> this better next time?
Never have externally maintained packages.
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It looks like simplejson 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 have been released:
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2010/03/10/simplejson-210/
http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2010/03/31/simplejson-211/
It looks like any changes that didn't come from the Python tree didn't
go into the Python tree, either.
I guess w
On 22 Jun, 2010, at 3:38, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:16 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> The test_posix failure is a regression from 2.6 (but it only shows up on
>>> some machines - it is caused by a fairly braindead implementation of a
>>> couple of posix apis by Ap
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Jesse Noller wrote:
>
> On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> Nothing is set in stone; if something is incredibly painful, or worse
>>> yet broken, then someone needs to file a bug, bring it to this list,
>>> or bring up a patch.
>> O
[Just addressing one little issue here; generally I'm just happy that
we're discussing this issue in such detail from so many points of
view.]
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>[...] Would urljoin(b_base, b_subdir) => bytes and
> urljoin(u_base, u_subdir) => unicode be acc
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 00:28, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Michael Urman writes:
>
> > It is somewhat troublesome that there doesn't appear to be an obvious
> > built-in idempotent-when-possible function that gives back the
> > provided bytes/str,
>
> If you want something idempotent, it's alr
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raymond Hettinger
> wrote:
>> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing
>> classes from old-style to new-style.
>
> I thought so as well. Changing any class from old-style to new-s
2010/6/22 Raymond Hettinger :
> There's an entry in whatsnew for 2.7 to the effect of "The UserDict class is
> now a new-style class".
> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing
> classes from old-style to new-style. IIRC, Martin had championed this idea
> and had re
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raymond Hettinger
wrote:
> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing
> classes from old-style to new-style.
I thought so as well. Changing any class from old-style to new-style
risks breaking applications in obscure & mysterious ways
Nick Coghlan writes:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
> > > Which works if and only if your outputs are truly unicode-able.
> >
> > With PEP 383, they always are, as long as you allow Unicode to be
> > decoded to the same garbage your bytes-based program woul
Toshio Kuratomi writes:
> I'll definitely buy that. Would urljoin(b_base, b_subdir) => bytes and
> urljoin(u_base, u_subdir) => unicode be acceptable though?
Probably.
But it doesn't matter what I say, since Guido has defined that as
"polymorphism" and approved it in principle.
> (I think
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:27 am Terry Reedy wrote:
> 3. Unicode disclaims direct representation of glyphic variants
> (though again, exceptions were made for asian acceptance). For
> example, in English, mechanically printed 'a' and 'g' are different
> from manually printed 'a' and 'g'. Representin
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Which works if and only if your outputs are truly unicode-able.
>
> With PEP 383, they always are, as long as you allow Unicode to be
> decoded to the same garbage your bytes-based program would have
> produced anyway.
Could it be t
> how can i simply add new functions to module after its initialization
> (Py_InitModule())? I'm missing something like
> PyModule_AddCFunction().
This type of question really belongs to python-list aka
comp.lang.python which I CC-d now. Please keep the discussion on that
list.
Cheers,
Daniel
hello,
how can i simply add new functions to module after its initialization
(Py_InitModule())? I'm missing something like
PyModule_AddCFunction().
thank you
L.
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Glyph Lefkowitz writes:
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Note also that the "complete solution" argument cuts both ways. Eg, a
> > "complete" solution should implement UTS 39 "confusables detection"[1]
> > and IDNA[2]. Good luck doing that with bytes!
>
> And
P.J. Eby writes:
> I know, it's a hard thing to wrap one's head around, since on the
> surface it sounds like unicode is the programmer's savior.
I don't need to wrap my head around it. It's been deeply embedded,
point first, and the nasty barbs ensure that I have no desire to pull
it back out
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a string,
> it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep track of
> text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer do.
Thanks Glyph
On 21 Jun, 2010, at 22:25, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 21:13 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit :
>>
>> If OS X is a supported and important platform for Python then fixing all
>> problems that it reveals (or being willing to) should definitely not be
>> a pre-requisite of provid
There's an entry in whatsnew for 2.7 to the effect of "The UserDict class is
now a new-style class".
I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing classes
from old-style to new-style. IIRC, Martin had championed this idea and had
rejected all of proposals to make exis
Michael Urman writes:
> It is somewhat troublesome that there doesn't appear to be an obvious
> built-in idempotent-when-possible function that gives back the
> provided bytes/str,
If you want something idempotent, it's already the case that
bytes(b'abc') => b'abc'. What might be desirable is
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> The RFC says that URIs are text, and therefore they can (and IMO
> should) be operated on as text in the stdlib.
No, *blue* is the best color for a shed.
Oops, wait, let me try that again.
While I broadly agree with this statement, it
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:58:57AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi writes:
>
> > One comment here -- you can also have uri's that aren't decodable into
> their
> > true textual meaning using a single encoding.
> >
> > Apache will happily serve out uris that have utf-8, sh
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