Re: [Python-Dev] Snap Python for simple distribution across multiple Linux distros

2017-05-22 Thread Matt Billenstein
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:31:42AM +0100, Martin Wimpress wrote: > Is there someone here who'd be interested in doing the same for Python? Do snaps support Windows and/or MacOS? m -- Matt Billenstein m...@vazor.com http://www.vazor.com/ ___ Python-Dev

[Python-Dev] Python is Bae

2017-05-22 Thread Victor Njunu
Dear Python, My name is Victor Mshindi and I am a student at United States International University - Africa(USIU - Africa) studying Information Systems Technology and also a member of the growing tech community. I've been working with python for 2 years now, currently using it for machine lear

Re: [Python-Dev] Snap Python for simple distribution across multiple Linux distros

2017-05-22 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 08:08 Martin Wimpress wrote: > Hi all, > > I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team developing Ubuntu > and Snapcraft [1] and I'm a long time Python fan :-) > > We've created snaps, a platform that enables projects to directly > control delivery of software updat

Re: [Python-Dev] Outdated GitHub clone of the old svn repository

2017-05-22 Thread Victor Stinner
Thank you Guido for taking take of that. So I fon't have to ask the same question over again (since I always forget what I did yesterday :-)). Happy hacking at the CPython sprint now on GitHub!!! Victor Le 22 mai 2017 2:48 PM, "Guido van Rossum" a écrit : > This story has a happy ending. I sen

Re: [Python-Dev] Outdated GitHub clone of the old svn repository

2017-05-22 Thread Guido van Rossum
This story has a happy ending. I sent a request to GitHub user support, who forwarded a message from me to the owner of the repo, who responded with apologies and then deleted the repo! Click for yourself: https://github.com/python-git/python/ is now a 404. Yay! On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Gui

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Moore
On 22 May 2017 at 19:17, Steve Dower wrote: > One of the main reasons we are stuck with an old libffi fork in CPython is > because the newer versions do not support protection from calling functions > with too few/many arguments: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html?highlight=ctypes#c

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows

2017-05-22 Thread Guido van Rossum
Sounds good to me. On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > One of the main reasons we are stuck with an old libffi fork in CPython is > because the newer versions do not support protection from calling functions > with too few/many arguments: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/

[Python-Dev] Deprecate invalid ctypes call protection on Windows

2017-05-22 Thread Steve Dower
One of the main reasons we are stuck with an old libffi fork in CPython is because the newer versions do not support protection from calling functions with too few/many arguments: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html?highlight=ctypes#calling-functions There are a number of caveats her