Re: [Python-Dev] Should r53624 be applied to release branches?

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Bingham
anned. > We will only be supporting 2.4 for a few months more, so as far as we are concerned a backport to 2.5 would be sufficient. Thanks, -- Aaron Bingham Senior Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49 (0)351 4173-146 Fax +49 (0)351 4173-109 Cenix BioScience GmbH Tatz

[Python-Dev] Should r53624 be applied to release branches?

2007-07-10 Thread Aaron Bingham
://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2007-February/058421.html Thanks, -- Aaron Bingham Senior Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49 (0)351 4173-146 Fax +49 (0)351 4173-109 Cenix BioScience GmbH Tatzberg 47 01307 Dresden, Germany www.cenix-bioscience.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

2007-03-21 Thread Aaron Bingham
Georg Brandl wrote: > Aaron Bingham schrieb: > >> Georg Brandl wrote: >> >>> Greg Ewing schrieb: >>> >>> >>>> Scott Dial wrote: >>>> >>>> A tangential question -- why are TemporaryFile an

Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

2007-03-21 Thread Aaron Bingham
eClass) True >>> fntllc = FunctionNamedToLookLikeClass() >>> isinstance(fntllc, FunctionNamedToLookLikeClass) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: isinstance() arg 2 must be a class, type, or tuple of classes and types That'

Re: [Python-Dev] User's complaints

2006-07-13 Thread Aaron Bingham
Aaron Bingham wrote: >Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > > >>Why not simply: >> >> def __main__(): >> ... >> >>or even pass in the command-line arguments: >> >> def __main__(*args): >> ... >> >>Having to &

Re: [Python-Dev] User's complaints

2006-07-13 Thread Aaron Bingham
gt; >Having to 'import sys' to get at the command-line arguments always >seemed awkward to me. 'import sys' feels like it should be a >privileged operation (access to interpreter internals), and getting >the command-

Re: [Python-Dev] The path module PEP

2006-01-26 Thread Aaron Bingham
absolute path (possibly the cwd). * You can't join two absolute paths, but you can join a relative path to another relative path, or to an absolute path. Cheers, Aaron -------- Aa