Re: [Python-Dev] VS 11 Express is Metro only.

2012-05-24 Thread martin
The free Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 (still in beta) will produce both 32 and 64 bit binaries and allow multiple languages but will only produce Metro apps. For desktop apps, either the paid Visual Studio versions or the free 2010 Express releases are required. https://www.microso

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 11 Express is Metro only.

2012-05-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > The free Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 (still in beta) will produce > both 32 and 64 bit binaries and allow multiple languages but will only > produce Metro apps. For desktop apps, either the paid Visual Studio versions > or the free 2

[Python-Dev] VS 11 Express is Metro only.

2012-05-24 Thread Terry Reedy
The free Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 (still in beta) will produce both 32 and 64 bit binaries and allow multiple languages but will only produce Metro apps. For desktop apps, either the paid Visual Studio versions or the free 2010 Express releases are required. https://www.microsoft.

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Daniel Farina wrote: >> Furthermore, if this is a hand-compiled Python, you could reconfigure >> it --with-pydebug, so as to enable more assertions in the interpreter >> core (this will make it quite a bit slower too :-)). > > Yes, this is my next step, although I

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/24/2012 4:20 PM, Daniel Farina wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: Please submit a report to the tracker for this. (Add me to the nosy list if you can) http://bugs.python.org/issue14903 However, I cannot add you to the nosy list, as you do not show up in the sea

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 > Daniel Farina wrote: >> >> Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time >> running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application quite >> frequently: it suddenly star

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 25, 2012, at 06:07 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on >the hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python >would have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) I do not think the hash randomization patch has

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: > Please submit a report to the tracker for this. > (Add me to the nosy list if you can) http://bugs.python.org/issue14903 However, I cannot add you to the nosy list, as you do not show up in the search. -- fdr _

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 Daniel Farina wrote: > > Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time > running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application quite > frequently: it suddenly started cropping up a little while ago (maybe > a few weeks). Do y

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on the > hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python would > have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) I do not think so; I do not see in in the

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Added examples.

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On May 24, 2012 11:29 PM, "Eric V. Smith" wrote: > > Possibly I am being too tricky here by modifying parent.__path__, and I > should just modify sys.path again, as you suggest. But I was trying to > show that modifying parent.__path__ will also work. Modifying namespace package __path__ attribut

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale

2012-05-24 Thread Eric Snow
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I've reviewed the updates to the PEP and have accepted it. Congrats all! Congrats! -eric ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Un

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
If it only started happening recently, suspicion would naturally fall on the hash randomisation security fix (as I assume a new version of Python would have been pushed for 10.04 with that update) Cheers, Nick. -- Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :) __

Re: [Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Shannon
Daniel Farina wrote: Hello all. I seem to be encountering somewhat rare an infinite loop in hash table probing while importing _socket, as triggered by init_socket.c in Python 2.6, as seen/patched shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The problem only reproduces on 32 bit machines, on both -O2 and -O

[Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Farina
Hello all. I seem to be encountering somewhat rare an infinite loop in hash table probing while importing _socket, as triggered by init_socket.c in Python 2.6, as seen/patched shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The problem only reproduces on 32 bit machines, on both -O2 and -O0 builds (which is how I

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale

2012-05-24 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 5/24/2012 2:33 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I've reviewed the updates to the PEP and have accepted it. Congrats all! Thanks to the many people who helped: Martin, Barry, Guido, Jason, Nick, PJE, and others. I'm sure I've offended someone by leaving them out, and I apologize in advance. But sp

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale

2012-05-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
I've reviewed the updates to the PEP and have accepted it. Congrats all! I know the implementation is lagging behind a bit, that's not a problem. Just get it into the next 3.3 alpha release! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) ___ Python-Dev mail

Re: [Python-Dev] possible bug in distutils (Mingw32CCompiler)?

2012-05-24 Thread R. David Murray
On Thu, 24 May 2012 08:45:30 -0500, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > > > > Mingw32CCompiler in cygwincompiler.py emits the symbol -mno-cygwin. > > > > This is used to make Cygwin's gcc behave as mingw. As of gcc 4.6 it is not > > recognized by the ming

Re: [Python-Dev] possible bug in distutils (Mingw32CCompiler)?

2012-05-24 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > > Mingw32CCompiler in cygwincompiler.py emits the symbol -mno-cygwin. > > This is used to make Cygwin's gcc behave as mingw. As of gcc 4.6 it is not > recognized by the mingw gcc compiler itself, and causes as crash. It should > be removed be

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Added examples.

2012-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:10 PM, eric.smith wrote: > +   Lib/test/namspace_pkgs Typo: s/namspace/namespace/ > +Here we add the parent directories to ``sys.path``, and show that the > +portions are correctly found:: > + > +    >>> import sys > +    >>> sys.path += ['Lib/test/namespace_pkgs/parent

[Python-Dev] possible bug in distutils (Mingw32CCompiler)?

2012-05-24 Thread Sturla Molden
Mingw32CCompiler in cygwincompiler.py emits the symbol -mno-cygwin. This is used to make Cygwin's gcc behave as mingw. As of gcc 4.6 it is not recognized by the mingw gcc compiler itself, and causes as crash. It should be removed because it is never needed for mingw (in any version), only for