Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-12 Thread Jeff Allen
On 12/09/2014 04:28, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Jeff Allen writes: A welcome article. One correction should be made, I believe: the area of code point space used for the smuggling of bytes under PEP-383 is not a Unicode Private Use Area, but a portion of the trailing surrogate

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:54:56 +0100 Jeff Allen ja...@farowl.co.uk wrote: Simply having a block for private use seems to create an unmanaged space for conflict, reminiscent of the other 128 characters in bilingual programming. I wondered if the way to respect use by applications might be to

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-12 Thread Jim J. Jewett
On September 11, 2014, Jeff Allen wrote: ... the area of code point space used for the smuggling of bytes under PEP-383 is not a Unicode Private Use Area, but a portion of the trailing surrogate range. This is a code violation, which I imagine is why surrogateescape is an error

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2014-09-12 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2014-09-05 - 2014-09-12) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open4652 (+12) closed 29509 (+38) total 34161 (+50) Open issues

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jeff Allen writes: Simply having a block for private use seems to create an unmanaged space for conflict, No. The uncharted range of human language (including recently- invented nonsense like emoticons and the annual design a character contest run by a newpaper in Taipei, with the grand

Re: [Python-Dev] Multilingual programming article on the Red Hat Developer blog

2014-09-12 Thread Jeff Allen
Jim, Stephen: It seems like we're off topic here, but to answer all as briefly as possible: 1. Java does not really have a Unicode type, therefore not one that validates. It has a String type that is a sequence of UTF-16 code units. There are some String methods and Character methods that

[Python-Dev] new hg.python.org server

2014-09-12 Thread Benjamin Peterson
I just switched hg.python.org from a OSUOSL VM to a Rackspace VM. The new VM is a bit beefier and has what I think is better network connectivity, so hopefully that will improving the speed of repository operations. We also now support HTTPS for repository browsing and cloning, so update all your

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] new hg.python.org server

2014-09-12 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Sep 12, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org wrote: The new VM is a bit beefier and has what I think is better network connectivity, so hopefully that will improving the speed of repository operations. Thanks Benjamin, the repo is noticeably faster. Raymond

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] new hg.python.org server

2014-09-12 Thread Shorya Raj
Just wondering - are there any sys-adminy sort of tasks that could be completed? I mean, I have some (note, some) experience doing this, and I wouldn't mind helping out (I inquired in the buildbot thread as well, but there wasn't much of a response). Thanks Shorya Raj On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] new hg.python.org server

2014-09-12 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014, at 21:52, Shorya Raj wrote: Just wondering - are there any sys-adminy sort of tasks that could be completed? I mean, I have some (note, some) experience doing this, and I wouldn't mind helping out (I inquired in the buildbot thread as well, but there wasn't much of a