[Python-Dev] ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2015-11-20 - 2015-11-27)

2015-11-27 Thread Laura Creighton
My mailer just barfed trying to read that summary. The problem is that the mail comes out with the encoding: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" but then wants to print 'http://bugs.python.org/issue25709 opened by Árpád Kósa' Can we change the encoding to utf-8 ? Laura _

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2015-11-27 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2015-11-20 - 2015-11-27) 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: open5263 ( +3) closed 32238 (+57) total 37501 (+60) Open issues wit

Re: [Python-Dev] The AttributeError/__getattr__ mechanism

2015-11-27 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, As R. David Murray wrote on the issue, the python-ideas mailing list is better suited to start such discussion ;-) Victor 2015-11-27 9:40 GMT+01:00 王珺 : > Hello everyone: > > I'm suggesting a modification to the AttributeError/__getattr__ mechanism, > see issue25634: > http://bugs.python.org

[Python-Dev] The AttributeError/__getattr__ mechanism

2015-11-27 Thread 王珺
Hello everyone: I'm suggesting a modification to the AttributeError/__getattr__ mechanism, see issue25634: http://bugs.python.org/issue25634 I used __getattr__ sometimes, and *descriptor* especially *property* is so widely used. I wonder whether someone had encountered the same problem with me.

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

2015-11-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 November 2015 at 18:47, Cory Benfield wrote: > Perhaps I missed this, Nick, but what happens if multiple third party > libraries apply updates to call this function in incompatible ways? For > example, if you depend on libfoo which calls > ssl._verify_https_certificates(False) and libbar

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

2015-11-27 Thread Cory Benfield
> On 27 Nov 2015, at 06:04, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Feature: Configuration API > == > > This change is proposed for inclusion in CPython 2.7.12 and later CPython > 2.7.x > releases. It consists of a new ``ssl._verify_https_certificates()`` to specify > the default handl

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for pronouncement on PEP 493 (HTTPS verification backport guidance)

2015-11-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nick Coghlan writes: > This is a significant rewrite that switches the PEP to a Standards > Track PEP proposing two new features for 2.7.12+: an > "ssl._verify_https_certificates()" configuration function, and a > "PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY" environment variable (although writing them > together like