[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-10-28 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-10-21 - 2011-10-28) 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: open3108 (+13) closed 21961 (+34) total 25069 (+47) Open issues

[Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello python-dev, As has been discussed here previously, Vinay Sajip and I are working on a PEP for making virtual Python environments a la virtualenv [1] a built-in feature of Python 3.3. This idea was first proposed on python-dev by Ian Bicking in

[Python-Dev] Emit a BytesWarning on bytes filenames on Windows

2011-10-28 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I am not more conviced that raising a UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable characters is the right fix for the issue #13247. The problem with this solution is that you have to wait until an user get a UnicodeEncodeError. I have yet another proposition: emit a warning when a bytes filename is

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-28 Thread Chris McDonough
This is really very comprehensive, thank you! Why not modify sys.prefix? - -- As discussed above under `Backwards Compatibility`_, this PEP proposes to add ``sys.site_prefix`` as the prefix relative to which site-package directories are found. This maintains

Re: [Python-Dev] draft PEP: virtual environments

2011-10-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Carl Meyer c...@oddbird.net wrote: If it is easier to review and comment on the PEP after it is published on python.org, I can submit it to the PEP editors anytime. Otherwise I'll wait until we've resolved a few more of the open questions, as it's easier for me

Re: [Python-Dev] Emit a BytesWarning on bytes filenames on Windows

2011-10-28 Thread Mark Hammond
On 29/10/2011 9:52 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: Hi, I am not more conviced that raising a UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable characters is the right fix for the issue #13247. The problem with this solution is that you have to wait until an user get a UnicodeEncodeError. I have yet another