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

2017-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 28/08/2017 17:46, Terry Reedy wrote: On 8/28/2017 3:42 AM, Robert Schindler wrote: Hello, In May, I submitted a pull request that extends the functionality of argparse.ArgumentParser. The argparse maintainer, bethard (Peter Bethard), was not added to the nosy list.  And he does not seem t

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

2017-07-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 05/07/2017 20:05, Mark Dickinson wrote: Oh, and you'd have to rewrite the power algorithm, which currently depends on the size of a limb in bytes being a multiple of 5. :-) What is a limb, as my search foo has let me down? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you

Re: [Python-Dev] python docs

2017-05-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 10/05/2017 15:53, Ethan Furman wrote: Not sure where to ask about this, so I'm asking here. In the on-line docs, at the very bottom of a page, in fine print, is a link: _Find a bug?_ Following that link leads to a short page with some advice on how to handle it. Under the second heading [

Re: [Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs?

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 09/05/2017 18:05, Ethan Furman wrote: A comment on a recent SO answer [1] wondered why my aenum library wasn't mentioned in the docs to help guide people that needed/wanted more advanced Enum options to it. I responded that Python was not in the habit of mentioning third-party libraries in

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible bug in class-init, lookin for mentors

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 21/04/2017 16:03, Guyzmo via Python-Dev wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:47:24AM +0200, Justus Schwabedal wrote: At least I think it's a bug. Maybe it's a feature.. it's indeed a feature. I possibly found a bug in class __init__ and would like to fix it technically, it's a method. Mor

Re: [Python-Dev] windows installer and python list mention

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 10/04/2017 18:48, Nathaniel Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: Some people find it easier to follow this and other lists via gmane (http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general), a service which offers a newsgroup interface to many online mailing lists. A

Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 27/01/2017 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote: On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like dfa, nfa, thompson multiple-state simu

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
On 02/11/2016 06:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Rasmus Villemoes writes: > First, apologies if this isn't the appropriate list; I trust I'll be > nudged in the right direction. Given the relatively advanced state of patch, I doubt that this is the *wrong* list. However, you would probably be

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

2016-09-12 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 12/09/2016 23:25, Gregory P. Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:25 AM INADA Naoki wrote: So fundamental question is: Is it to so bad thing that some people write code depending on CPython and PyPy implementation? Yes. See below. I think cross-interpreter libraries can us

Re: [Python-Dev] Why does base64 return bytes?

2016-06-14 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 14/06/2016 16:51, Paul Moore wrote: On 14 June 2016 at 16:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Why does base64 encoding in Python return bytes? I seem to recall there was a debate about this around the time of the Python 3 move. (IIRC, it was related to the fact that there used to be a base64 "codec

Re: [Python-Dev] Smoothing the transition from Python 2 to 3

2016-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 10/06/2016 00:43, Brett Cannon wrote: That's not what I'm saying at all (nor what I think Nick is saying); more tooling to ease the transition is always welcomed. The point we are trying to make is 2to3 is not considered best practice anymore, and so targeting its specific output might not be

Re: [Python-Dev] runtime dlls on Windows

2016-05-26 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 26/05/2016 19:02, Brett Cannon wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2016 at 09:44 Chris Barker mailto:chris.bar...@noaa.gov>> wrote: [SNIP] Thanks Steve. Will you be at PyCon? if Nathaniel and I look at this during the sprints, maybe you could coach us a bit. Steve will be at PyCon but I don

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&#

Re: [Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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 He might be, but clearly the Python community as a whole is not impacted. From what I see the latest version of PIL that is available