Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:07, Doug Hellmann doug.hellm...@gmail.com wrote: Several of the PSF blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform are experiencing issues as fallout from the recent maintenance problems they had. We have already had to recreate at least one of the translations for

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 16:07, Doug Hellmann doug.hellm...@gmail.com wrote: Several of the PSF blogs hosted on Google's Blogger platform are experiencing issues as fallout from the recent maintenance problems they had. We

[Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Tim Golden
There's a thread on python-list at the moment: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-May/1272505.html which is discussing the validity of os.access results on Windows. Now we've been here before: I raised issue2528 for a previous enquiry some years ago and proffered a patch which

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.x and bytes

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: This behavior matches what I was imagining for having b'a' == 97.  They compare equal, yet remain distinct objects for all other purposes. If anybody has a link to or an explanation why equal values must be equal hashes

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
With respect to Google Blogger, I don't see a good reason to use it as the platform for the blog. As with any infrastructure, there is a reasonably high cost in changing, as people have become used to a certain way of doing things, and porting the contents from the old system to the new one

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: With respect to Google Blogger, I don't see a good reason to use it as the platform for the blog. As with any infrastructure, there is a reasonably high cost in changing, as people have become used to a certain way of

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden tim.gol...@cbsoutdoor.co.ukwrote: There's a thread on python-list at the moment: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-May/1272505.html which is discussing the validity of os.access results on Windows. Now we've been here before: I

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Tim Golden
On 20/05/2011 16:21, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden tim.gol...@cbsoutdoor.co.uk (Sorry about that; I had no idea I'd sent that from my work account) I think we should tread lightly in the documentation area. We already have two note boxes, and adding a third

Re: [Python-Dev] packaging landed in stdlib

2011-05-20 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Georg Brandl g.bra...@gmx.net wrote: On 19.05.2011 13:35, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hey I've pushed packaging in stdlib. There are a few buildbots errors we're fixing right now. We will continue our work in their directly for now on. Rock on! Thanks :) Still

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Eli Bendersky
There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another hosted by someone else site is probably not a good idea, but our hands may be forced if google/blogger can

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: Has the Python insider blog really accumulated enough history and cruft to make this move problematic? It's a fairly new blog, with not much content in it. From my blogging experience, Blogger has other limitations which

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another hosted by someone else site is probably

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/2011 11:35 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another hosted by someone

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-05-20 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-05-13 - 2011-05-20) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open2794 (+10) closed 21115 (+46) total 23909 (+56) Open issues

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On May 20, 2011 8:30 AM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 20/05/2011 16:21, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:38, Tim Golden tim.gol...@cbsoutdoor.co.uk (Sorry about that; I had no idea I'd sent that from my work account) I think we should tread lightly in the

[Python-Dev] Hello!

2011-05-20 Thread Charles-François Natali
Hi, My name is Charles-François Natali, I've been using Python for a couple years, and I've recently been granted commit priviledge. I just wanted to say hi to everyone on this list, and let you know that I'm really happy and proud of joining this great community. Cheers, cf

[Python-Dev] in latest Py3k site.py: configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'posix_prefix'

2011-05-20 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, since May 19, I get the exception below in the latest py3k site.py when trying to run a distutils build with it (building Cython). The changelog since the previous (working) CPython build is here: https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/py3k-hg/374/ The failing build is here:

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Georg Brandl
On 20.05.2011 17:35, Eli Bendersky wrote: There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another hosted by someone else site is probably not a good idea, but our

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
As Jesse has said, there is an RFP in development to improve python.org to the point where we can self-host blogs and the like and deal with the associated user account administration appropriately. To run a blog on www.python.org, a PEP is not needed. If anybody would volunteer to set this

Re: [Python-Dev] os.access on Windows

2011-05-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
TBH I think the less attractive we can make os.access() look the better. It uses the real uid instead of the effective uid, it encourages LBYL behavior, the outcome may be incorrect, it doesn't work on Windows... The ONLY reason to ever use it is in a setuid() program. But who writes those

Re: [Python-Dev] looking for a contact at Google on the Blogger team

2011-05-20 Thread Doug Hellmann
On May 20, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: As Jesse has said, there is an RFP in development to improve python.org to the point where we can self-host blogs and the like and deal with the associated user account administration appropriately. To run a blog on www.python.org, a PEP

[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.7 release candidate 2 now available

2011-05-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hello to all you Pythoneers and Pythonistas, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 2.6.7 release candidate 2. Release candidate 1 was not widely announced due to a mismatch between the Mercurial and Subversion branches. Barring any unforeseen issues, this will be the last release

Re: [Python-Dev] in latest Py3k site.py: configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'posix_prefix'

2011-05-20 Thread Ned Deily
In article ir6e0i$hn6$1...@dough.gmane.org, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: since May 19, I get the exception below in the latest py3k site.py when trying to run a distutils build with it (building Cython). The changelog since the previous (working) CPython build is here:

Re: [Python-Dev] Hello!

2011-05-20 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 19:01 +0200, Charles-François Natali wrote: Hi, My name is Charles-François Natali, I've been using Python for a couple years, and I've recently been granted commit priviledge. I just wanted to say hi to everyone on this list, and let you know that I'm really happy and