Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 beta 1

2012-06-26 Thread Larry Hastings
On 06/26/2012 11:10 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Python 3.3.0. I <3 <3.<3 Thanks Georg! And everybody who contributed. Stoked, //arry/ ___ Python-Dev mailing lis

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 beta 1

2012-06-26 Thread Georg Brandl
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Python 3.3.0. This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in production settings. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-26 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
2012/6/27 Cameron Simpson : > On 27Jun2012 01:49, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > | I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems: > | > | giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os; > | print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" > | True > | giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ sudo su > |

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27Jun2012 01:49, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: | I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems: | | giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os; | print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" | True | giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ sudo su | root@ubuntu:~# python -c "import os; | prin

[Python-Dev] os.path.exists() / os.path.isdir() inconsistency when dealing with gvfs directories

2012-06-26 Thread Giampaolo Rodolà
I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems: giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os; print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" True giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ sudo su root@ubuntu:~# python -c "import os; print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))" False This is du

Re: [Python-Dev] Poking about issue 1677

2012-06-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/26/2012 6:51 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: The issue is that sometimes, if you press ctrl-c on Windows, instead of raising a KeyboardInterrupt, Python will exit completely. Because of this, any program that relies on ctrl-c/KeyboardInterrupt is not guaranteed to work on windows. Also, working

Re: [Python-Dev] Poking about issue 1677

2012-06-26 Thread Tim Golden
On 26/06/2012 11:59, Tim Golden wrote: > On 26/06/2012 11:51, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I just wanted to bring some more attention to issue #1677 , because I >> feel it's important and misunderstood. See: >> http://bugs.python.org/issue1677 >> >> The issue is that sometimes, if you

Re: [Python-Dev] Poking about issue 1677

2012-06-26 Thread martin
I just wanted to bring some more attention to issue #1677 , because I feel it's important and misunderstood. Please consider working even more on a solution then. If I had time to work on this, I'd run Python in a debugger, and see what happens. Finding out in what state Python is when it stops

Re: [Python-Dev] Poking about issue 1677

2012-06-26 Thread Tim Golden
On 26/06/2012 11:51, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just wanted to bring some more attention to issue #1677 , because I > feel it's important and misunderstood. See: > http://bugs.python.org/issue1677 > > The issue is that sometimes, if you press ctrl-c on Windows, instead > of raising

[Python-Dev] Poking about issue 1677

2012-06-26 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
Hi guys, I just wanted to bring some more attention to issue #1677 , because I feel it's important and misunderstood. See: http://bugs.python.org/issue1677 The issue is that sometimes, if you press ctrl-c on Windows, instead of raising a KeyboardInterrupt, Python will exit completely. Because of

[Python-Dev] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

2012-06-26 Thread anatoly techtonik
Now that Python 3 is all about iterators (which is a user killer feature for Python according to StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python) would it be nice to introduce more first class functions to work with them? One function to be exact to split string into chunks. i

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Added tag v3.3.0b1 for changeset e15c554cd43e

2012-06-26 Thread Georg Brandl
It is done -- the beta is tagged. Thanks to everyone for your hard work, especially to the intrepid devs on IRC. Georg On 26.06.2012 09:43, georg.brandl wrote: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fadcc985010b changeset: 77802:fadcc985010b user:Georg Brandl date:Tue Jun 26 09:43