Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 380

2011-11-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Mea culpa for not keeping track, but what's the status of PEP 380? I > really want this in Python 3.3! There are two relevant tracker issues (both with me for the moment). The main tracker issue for PEP 380 is here: http://bugs.python.o

[Python-Dev] PEP 380

2011-11-23 Thread Guido van Rossum
Mea culpa for not keeping track, but what's the status of PEP 380? I really want this in Python 3.3! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscri

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot

2011-11-23 Thread Philip Jenvey
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > 2011/11/22 Philip Jenvey > One reason to target 3.2 for now is it's not a moving target. There's > overhead involved in managing modifications to the pure python standard lib > needed for PyPy, tracking 3.3 changes as they happen as w

Re: [Python-Dev] PyUnicode_Resize

2011-11-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> In Python 3.2, PyUnicode_Resize() expects a number of Py_UNICODE units, > whereas Python 3.3 expects a number of characters. Is that really the case? If the string is not ready (i.e. the kind is WCHAR_KIND), then it does count Py_UNICODE units, no? Callers are supposed to call PyUnicode_Resize

Re: [Python-Dev] Promoting Python 3 [was: PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot]

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dirkjan Ochtman writes: > I'm sorry for the lack of response in the past. I looked at Gentoo's > Bugzilla and didn't find any related bugs you reported or were CC'ed > on, can you name some of them? This isn't about my bugs; I've been able to work through them satisfactorily. It's about what

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 Release Manager

2011-11-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 22, 2011, at 07:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: >I've volunteered to be the Release Manager for Python 3.4. The FLUFL has >already given it his Sloppy Wet Kiss Of Approval, I think you mistook that for my slackjaw droolings when you repeatedly ignored my warnings to run as far from it as pos

Re: [Python-Dev] Promoting Python 3 [was: PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot]

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ned Deily writes: > In article <87fwhfqywr@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>, > "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > > I haven't had the nerve to do this on MacPorts because "port" is such > > a flaky thing (not so much port itself, but so many ports assume that > > the port maintainer's local config

Re: [Python-Dev] Promoting Python 3 [was: PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot]

2011-11-23 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 13:21, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >  > Problems like what? > > Like those I explained later in the post, which you cut.  But I'll They were in a later post, I didn't cut them. :) >  > Please create a connection to your distro by filing bugs as you >  > encounter them? > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Promoting Python 3 [was: PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot]

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dirkjan Ochtman writes: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 17:41, Stephen J. Turnbull > wrote: > > This is still a big mess in Gentoo and MacPorts, though.  MacPorts > > hasn't done anything about ceating a transition infrastructure AFAICT. > > Gentoo has its "eselect python set VERSION" stuff, but i

Re: [Python-Dev] Promoting Python 3 [was: PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot]

2011-11-23 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 17:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > This is still a big mess in Gentoo and MacPorts, though.  MacPorts > hasn't done anything about ceating a transition infrastructure AFAICT. > Gentoo has its "eselect python set VERSION" stuff, but it's very > dangerous to set to a Python

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: fix compiler warning by implementing this more cleverly

2011-11-23 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Mercredi 23 Novembre 2011 01:49:28 Terry Reedy a écrit : > The one-liner could be followed by >assert(kind==1 || kind==2 || kind==4) > which would also serve to remind the reader of the possibilities. For a ready string, kind must be 1, 2 or 4. We might rename "kind" to "charsize" because

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 Release Manager

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:27:24 -0800 > Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > > > > But look! I'm already practicing: NO YOU CAN'T CHECK THAT IN. How's > > > that? Needs work? > > > > You could try a more positive leadership style: THAT LOOKS GREAT, I'M > > SURE THE

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 Release Manager

2011-11-23 Thread Simon Cross
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > That's cool.  But just my thought, wouldn't it be better for someone > who regularly commits, fixes bugs and feature requests be better for a > RM role? Once a developer gets bored with those and wants more, could > take up RM role. Is ther