[Python-Dev] Re: Recent PEP-8 change

2020-06-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] "Deprecation" of os.system in favor of subprocess?

2018-10-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
t to pieces so case closed. Goodbye. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [Python-Dev] Change in Python 3's "round" behavior

2018-10-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] SEC: Spectre variant 2: GCC: -mindirect-branch=thunk -mindirect-branch-register

2018-09-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Tone it down on Twitter?

2018-07-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
e reserved for morons like the current president of the USA. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
so we only have one year to organise the 25th birthday party. The exact time and place for the party will obviously have to be discussed on python-ideas, or do we need a new mailing list? :-) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: [Python-Dev] Guarantee ordered dict literals in v3.7?

2017-11-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
of questions from newbies going off of the Richter scale? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] [bpo-30421]: Pull request review

2017-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
not discussed on the bpo issue. The bulk of the work on argparse in recent years has been done by paul.j3. I have no idea whether or not he is classed as a core developer. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] 64 bit units in PyLong

2017-07-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] python docs

2017-05-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs?

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] Possible bug in class-init, lookin for mentors

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] windows installer and python list mention

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
ch engines? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.

Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
other third party modules, on pypi rather than have them tied into the Python release cycle. If YMMV so be it. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-02 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 02/11/2016 12:09, Terry Reedy wrote: On 11/2/2016 3:54 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote: On 02/11/2016 06:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: That is correct. This is clearly a feature, and 2.7 currently is accepting only security-related patches (broadly construed -- a sufficiently

Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-02 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
implement a DoS attack). Surely patches related to any bugs, not just security related ones, will be accepted until EOL in 2020? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

2016-09-13 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] Why does base64 return bytes?

2016-06-14 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
o play detective I'd suggest https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-July/008975.html -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] runtime dlls on Windows

2016-05-26 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 06/05/2016 00:06, Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 05, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote: On 05/05/2016 23:22, Stefan Krah wrote Fredrik Lundh is also affected (and might not have received any mail, same as me): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL Maybe, but then there's

Re: [Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
similar problems, in which case please say so. The rest of the community might not understand, I certainly will. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10%

2016-02-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
r bytecode in favour of a wordcode-based model (where a is word is 16 bits wide). It also implements an hybrid stack-register virtual machine, and adds a lot of other optimizations. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our lang

Re: [Python-Dev] New poll about a macro for safe reference replacing

2015-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
will let you know pretty quick if you put an integer vs a PyObject* there. Cheers, Steve Or Py_SAFEREF or SAFE_REF? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4 musings (was Re: Deleting with setting C API functions)

2015-12-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
we have a PEP on this please, otherwise there's likely to be a great deal of confusion between hand grenade style counting, and the faculty rules at the University of Walamaloo. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark

Re: [Python-Dev] "python.exe is not a valid Win32 app"

2015-12-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
stions such as this. However Python 3.5 is *NOT* supported on XP. Work has been done for 3.5.1 to improve the user experience in this scenario. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark La

Re: [Python-Dev] Should PEP 498 specify if rf'...' is valid?

2015-10-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
be unique in the programming world? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev U

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
issue3871 mingw issue is closed, it points to four other issues. In total there are around 25 mingw issues open. Maybe some of the work done on them can be tied up with the work that Carl Kleffner has done? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can

Re: [Python-Dev] My collection of Python 3.5.0 regressions

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/09/2015 06:38, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Lawrence writes: > I agree very strongly with your point here. Raising umpteen issues > over installation failures when a full release comes out strikes me > as below the belt when there have been multiple previous releases

Re: [Python-Dev] My collection of Python 3.5.0 regressions

2015-09-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
release comes out strikes me as below the belt when there have been multiple previous releases without a squeak. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] What happens of the Python 3.4 branch?

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
+) will be source code only. How's that? //arry/ Sorry but Sunday October 13th doesn't suit me, how about Sunday October 11th or Sunday October 18th? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

[Python-Dev] Issues not responded to.

2015-07-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
with in the medium to longer term, from the simple short term ones, e.g very easy typo fixes? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 13:35, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: One week == 7 days == 7 * 24 hours Two weeks = 2 * (one week) Right, and that of course is not true in actual reality. I know you are not interested in DST

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 06:21, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less. OK. In my mission critical code, which I use to predict my cashflow, I use code such as. timedelta(days=14

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 03:15, Tim Peters wrote: [Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk] To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less. I have no interest in messing about with daylight savings of 30 minutes, one hour, two hours or any other variant that I've not heard about. In my mission

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
that's not true. In my real world it is. We clearly have parallel worlds. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 16:47, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 28/07/2015 06:21, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
that this isn't actually two weeks? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Burning down the backlog.

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
time we spend assisting Cannon, Coghlan Co on the core workflow, the quicker, in the medium to long term, we put the backlog of issues to bed. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 25/07/2015 00:06, ISAAC J SCHWABACHER wrote: I got to Daylight Saving Time is a red herring, and stopped reading. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
of debacle from occurring again. +infinity -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
with. Regards Antoine. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 493: Redistributor guidance for Python 2.7 HTTPS

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
, there is very little of any substance on there nowadays. Perhaps that's because people are reading any of the 387 Python lists on gmane that are dedicated to their specific area of interest? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 493: Redistributor guidance for Python 2.7 HTTPS

2015-07-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
it ain't gonna happen would save a lot of time all around. Just my £0.02p worth. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Obtaining stack-frames from co-routine objects

2015-06-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Unable to build regex module against Python 3.5 32-bit

2015-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
libpython??.a. This http://bugs.python.org/issue24385 should interest you. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] RM for 3.6?

2015-06-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
as RM for 3.6: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ Does he know already? The suck^H^H^H^H man even volunteered! Was that volunteered as in RM or the Comfy Chair? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
further up this subthread two hours and one minute before you didn't say it :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] Emit SyntaxWarning on unrecognized backslash escapes?

2015-02-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
happen. Isn't this why users have help desks? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

2015-02-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/02/2015 18:06, Steve Dower wrote: Go ahead, make my pep. We should make a python-dev t-shirt with this on it :) I'll buy one provided pp isn't too high :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

2015-02-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] (no subject)

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 484 syntax: NONONONONONONO!

2015-02-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Compile Python on Windows (OpenSSL)

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] New Windows installer for Python 3.5

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
? I'm not sure if anything can be done about pyw.exe, perhaps you (plural) can throw some light on this for me. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] New Windows installer for Python 3.5

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
is the Rapid Environment Editor http://www.rapidee.com/en/about. I'm sure there are plenty of other choices but it does what I need. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
. Links to older versions have been pointed out on other threads, either here or python-ideas, maybe both? Or use the command line as Antoine pointed out elsewhere. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
the famous GDB debugger? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASE] Python 3.4.2 is now available

2014-10-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
of work. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] List insert at index that is well out of range - behaves like append

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
that read s[i:i+1] = [x] ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] Documenting enum types

2014-08-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
be seeing the PSF in court, on the grounds that I've just bust a gut laughing :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Reviving restricted mode?

2014-08-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
approach, but I can't find them. Any chance of giving us some context, or do I have to retrieve my crystal ball from the menders? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

[Python-Dev] PEP 3121, 384 Refactoring Issues

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
to put me on the nosy list and ask for a test run. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

[Python-Dev] Pending issues

2014-07-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] subprocess shell=True on Windows doesn't escape ^ character

2014-06-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

2014-06-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
thinking (or die laughing :) , but would it be possible to use hex digits, such that 2.7.A was the first release on Windows with the different compiler? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/06/2014 16:52, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/06/2014 16:32, Steve Dower wrote: If copying into a separate list is a problem (memory-wise), re.finditer('\\S+', string) also provides the same behaviour and gives me the sliced string, so there's no need to index for anything. Out of idle

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/06/2014 09:53, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: On 06/04/2014 05:52 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/06/2014 16:32, Steve Dower wrote: If copying into a separate list is a problem (memory-wise), re.finditer('\\S+', string) also provides the same behaviour and gives me the sliced string, so there's

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
day dull! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
this actually be implemented in the future, is the underlying C code just too complicated, or what? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection

Re: [Python-Dev] Language Summit Follow-Up

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
support is still infinitely more important than Python 3. -Mark What is the point of flogging a horse that's been dead for so long that it's already down to a skeleton? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

2014-04-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

2014-04-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Inquisition. Except those who expect Python 2.8? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2migr8

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
. Failing that, how about a play on 2 + 8 = ache? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Python-Dev] issue with itertools leads the crash

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
/ the final release of 2.7 is scheduled to be 2.7.9 in May 2015. Did you mean to say that 2.7 isn't getting new features? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because

Re: [Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Cherry-pick between Python 3.4 RC2 and final?

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 2

2014-02-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131636.html but personally I wouldn't lose any sleep whether it stays or goes. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 2

2014-02-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/02/2014 02:30, Ethan Furman wrote: +be any more of a nuisance than the already existing methdods. Typo methdods. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware

Re: [Python-Dev] python 3 niggle: None 1 raises TypeError

2014-02-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
an int. The docs don't say anything about using None, except in the equivalent to section, which is also the only place where it looks as if times can be a keyword argument. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 16:32, Ram Rachum wrote: Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? It's not needed. Is this *REALLY* relevant to this list? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
questions on the *MAIN* Python mailing list. There's yet another reason to bring back the death penalty in the UK. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3 marketing document?

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:56, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
people have written 2.x code to use format() as %f formatting is to be deprecated, they now have to change the code back to the way they may well have written it in the first place? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/01/2014 15:41, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/17/2014 07:15 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: For both options 1 and 2 surely you cannot be suggesting that after people have written 2.x code to use format() as %f formatting is to be deprecated %f formatting is not deprecated, and will not be in 3

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 Final?

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
cause problems in the future as b is used in new style formatting to mean output numbers in binary, so %B seems to me the obvious choice as it's also unused. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting to indicate when it first came into play. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
as I'd automatically associate that with ascii in the same way that I associate str with __str__ and repr with __repr__. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
can't get that to work. :-( I believe you wanted this. a='01234567890123456' len(a) 17 b = '%15.15s' % a b;len(b) '012345678901234' 15 -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

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