Re: [Python-Dev] Python-3 transition in Arch Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Devin Cook
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > I also agree with the "NO ARCH" topic at the moment. I was fairly surprised > so many people went to #python for help given we had made news posts and had > a topic in our IRC channel pointing to how to start fixing issues. > > Allan I don't re

Re: [Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

2010-09-15 Thread Devin Cook
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: > You need people with the time and willingness to download, install and > run production code on the releases. This might be getting off-topic, but maybe not as many people as you think. How many projects in pypi provide unittests? That's at

Re: [Python-Dev] evolving the SSL module API

2009-09-10 Thread Devin Cook
module (httplib, etc.) wouldn't have to write their own (and it isn't very straightforward... lots of different RFCs involved). Just my 2 cents. -Devin On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > There's also the patch to httplib that Devin Cook has been working on >

Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing File Modes

2009-07-29 Thread Devin Cook
Hmm... can't you do this? if encryptionEnabled: p = subprocess.Popen(["gpg", "--decrypt", "supersecret.html.gpg"], stdin = subprocess.PIPE) fileobj = p.stdin else: fileobj = open("notsosecret.html") I think that works. Is there something this way won't work for? You can also do the sa

Re: [Python-Dev] SSL Certificate Validation

2009-06-17 Thread Devin Cook
Ok, thanks for all the feedback. Just for clarity, I'll summarize everything as I understand it: * OpenSSL does the all validation of the certificate itself. (http://openssl.org/docs/apps/verify.html) * httplib should have a way to enable validation of the certificate. * httplib should have a way

Re: [Python-Dev] SSL Certificate Validation

2009-06-16 Thread Devin Cook
> But I really do believe that this is what he need to do next: > familiarize himself with OpenSSL. There is a lot of APIs in that > library, and it takes a while (i.e.: several months) to get > productive, in particular since OpenSSL doesn't have the most > intuitive API. Well, I realized this as

[Python-Dev] SSL Certificate Validation

2009-06-16 Thread Devin Cook
to be part of certificate validation in the ssl module. If it isn't yet, I'd be happy to work on a patch for it. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! -Devin Cook ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mail