[Python-Dev] new Plan 9 (and family) port of v2.7.5

2013-06-10 Thread Jeff Sickel
I have a set of patches I've developed based on the 2.7 branch that provides a working port of Python 2.7.5 to Plan 9 386 and amd64 builds (an arm version is mostly working, but will need a few more updates before being hauled off on the wagon). Most of the changes, including mkfiles, are local

[Python-Dev] Python 3 metaclasses, doctest, and unittest

2013-06-10 Thread Ethan Furman
I just wanted to take a minute and say THANK YOU to everyone involved in getting Python 3 to where it is today. It is so much easier to use, especially metaclasses (nearly pulled my hair out trying to get Enum working on Py2!). Also a big thank you to the doctest folks as it was invaluable in

Re: [Python-Dev] Ordering keyword dicts

2013-06-10 Thread Ron Adam
On 06/09/2013 10:13 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Guido van Rossum mailto:gu...@python.org>> wrote: I'm slow at warming up to the idea. My main concern is speed -- since most code doesn't need it and function calls are already slow (and obviously