Re: [Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

2014-06-16 Thread Tim Golden
On 17/06/2014 04:08, Zachary Ware wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: Hi, I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

2014-06-16 Thread Zachary Ware
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or > not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in > April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an hack to use > Windows upgrades on the

Re: [Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

2014-06-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 17 Jun 2014 03:42, "Chris Barker" wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > >> >> > > 1. It hampers interactive mode - instead of short and easy to type >> > > execfile("file.py") one needs to use exec(open("file.py").read()). >> >> > >> > If the amount of typing is

[Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

2014-06-16 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an hack to use Windows upgrades on the desktop flavor using the embedded flavor (by changing a key in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

2014-06-16 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/16/2014 10:40 AM, Chris Barker wrote: My conclusions: 1) runfile() is not really very usefull, it's fine to hve removed it. s/runfile/execfile -- ~Ethan~ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > > 1. It hampers interactive mode - instead of short and easy to type > > > execfile("file.py") one needs to use exec(open("file.py").read()). > > > If the amount of typing is the problem, that's easy to solve: > > > > # do this once >