Re: [Python-Dev] OpenIndiana and Solaris support

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 at 15:38 Guido van Rossum wrote: > Thanks for the reality check Trent! I think if enough people with core > committer bits want to keep supporting Solaris / Illumos / OpenIndiana > / other variants that's fine, but I don't think that just having some > VMs

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

Yeah, that should work. The implementation is something like a byte offset to the start of a line plus a character count, plus some misc flags. I found this implementation in the 2.6 code (the last version where it was pure Python code): def _pack_cookie(self, position, dec_flags=0,

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

Ben Leslie wrote: But the idea of transmitting these offsets outside of a running process is not something that I had anticipated. It got me thinking: is there a guarantee that these opaque values returned from tell() is stable across different versions of Python? Are they even guaranteed to

Re: [Python-Dev] OpenIndiana and Solaris support

Thanks for the reality check Trent! I think if enough people with core committer bits want to keep supporting Solaris / Illumos / OpenIndiana / other variants that's fine, but I don't think that just having some VMs to test on is enough -- we also need people who can fix problems if those

Re: [Python-Dev] OpenIndiana and Solaris support

I work for Joyent (joyent.com) now, which employs a number of devs that work on illumos (illumos.org). We also provide cloud infrastructure. Would it help if we offered one or more instances (VMs) on which to run buildbot slaves (and on which volunteers for bug fixing could hack)? I know a lot of

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.6.0 Beta Phase Development

The issue tracker is your friend! On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Michael Felt wrote: > > On 13/09/2016 02:15, Ned Deily wrote: >> >> the challenge is to put the finishing touches on the features and >> documentation, squash bugs, and test test test. The next preview

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.6.0 Beta Phase Development

On 13/09/2016 02:15, Ned Deily wrote: the challenge is to put the finishing touches on the features and documentation, squash bugs, and test test test. The next preview release will be 3.6.0b2 Found one typo in Modules/_io/_iomodule.h on line 156 - #endif^L rather than #endif (posted as

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016, at 05:30, Ben Leslie wrote: > I think the case of JSON or SQL database is even more important though. > > tell/seek can return 129-bit integers (maybe even more? my maths might > be off here). > > The very large integers that can be returned by tell() will break >

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

It was pointed out in private email that technically JSON can represent very large integers even if ECMAScript itself can't. But the idea of transmitting these offsets outside of a running process is not something that I had anticipated. It got me thinking: is there a guarantee that these opaque

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

I think the case of JSON or SQL database is even more important though. tell/seek can return 129-bit integers (maybe even more? my maths might be off here). The very large integers that can be returned by tell() will break serialization to JSON, and storing in a SQL database (at least for most

Re: [Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

On 25 September 2016 at 17:21, MRAB wrote: > On 2016-09-26 00:21, Ben Leslie wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I recently shot myself in the foot by assuming that TextIO.tell >> returned integers rather than opaque cookies. Specifically I was >> adding an offset to the value