Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed PEP on concurrent programming support

2012-01-11 Thread Matt Joiner
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:07:27 -0500 > PJ Eby wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: >> > A suite is marked >> > as a `transaction`, and then when an unlocked object is modified, >> > instead of indicating an error, a lock

Re: [Python-Dev] Python as a Metro-style App

2012-01-11 Thread Dino Viehland
Martin wrote: > See the start of the thread: I tried to create a "WinRT Component DLL", and > that failed, as VS would refuse to compile any C file in such a project. Not > sure whether this is triggered by defining WINAPI_FAMILY=2, or any other > compiler setting. > > I'd really love to use WINA

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed PEP on concurrent programming support

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:07:27 -0500 PJ Eby wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > > A suite is marked > > as a `transaction`, and then when an unlocked object is modified, > > instead of indicating an error, a locked copy of it is created to be > > used through the rest of th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python as a Metro-style App

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Win 8 is practically a new OS target - the nt module may need to be >> replaced with a metro module to handle it well. > > No, it's not. Everything continues to work just fine on Windows 8, > as long as we keep developing desktop apps. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python C API: Problem sending tuple to a method of a python Class

2012-01-11 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 03:52:07PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:09:02 +0100 > "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > b) suggests that people are not too tired in actually typing in > >this message every now and then. > > I suspect one of them doesn't actually *type* the message

Re: [Python-Dev] os.walk() with followlinks=False

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:25:46 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > When discussing http://bugs.python.org/issue13734, Charles-François > noted that when os.walk() is called with "followlinks=False", symlinks > to directories are still included in the "subdirs" list rather than > the "files" list. > > This

Re: [Python-Dev] Python C API: Problem sending tuple to a method of a python Class

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:09:02 +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 10.01.2012 18:15, schrieb Matt Joiner: > > I suspect it actually would fix the confusion. "dev" usually means > > development, not "core implementation development". People float past > > looking for dev help... python-dev. Python-l

Re: [Python-Dev] Python as a Metro-style App

2012-01-11 Thread martin
Let me see if I can try this. Hopefully I still have my VM w/ this all setup and I can see if I can get it building this way. I can always ping some people on the C++ team and ask them for help if I run into issues. I'll give it a shot tomorrow and get back to you. Hi Dino, I reported

[Python-Dev] shutil.copy() and hard links

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Heimes
Hello, here is another fun fact about links, this time hard links and the shutil.copy() function. The shutil.copy() functions behaves like the Unix cp(1) command. Both don't unlink the destination file if it already exists. As a consequence all hard links point to the updated file data. This beha