Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] PEP

2012-03-08 Thread Masklinn
On 2012-03-08, at 22:08 , Mark Janssen wrote: > I just noticed something in Guido's example. Something gives me a strange > feeling that using a variable as a key doesn't smell right. Presumably > Python just hashes the variable's id, or uses the id itself as the key Python calls ``hash`` on the

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-18 Thread Masklinn
On 18 Jan 2010, at 14:57 , Michael Foord wrote: > > On 18/01/2010 13:46, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> >> On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Masklinn wrote: >> >>> On 18 Jan 2010, at 13:40 , Nick Coghlan wrote: >>>> >>>> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >&g

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

2010-01-18 Thread Masklinn
On 18 Jan 2010, at 13:40 , Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> There's one remaining external call for "zip" done if the zip module >> is not found, but I am happy to remove it and throw an exception if >> it's not found, and keep the external "zip" call on Distutils side, so >> shutil s

Re: [Python-Dev] standard libraries don't behave like standard 'libraries'

2009-11-13 Thread Masklinn
On 13 Nov 2009, at 11:36 , Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > I think the recent postings on "CPAN for Python" in this list also stems > from similar thoughts. No. The CPAN for Python messages (in and out of the list) are about third-party packages and a better way to manage (and a better experie

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 13 Nov 2009, at 00:37 , Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Users (which includes e.g. language users) tend to be lazy, rather than >> stupid. > Then they likely won't comment on PyPI. To do so, they have to setup an > account (which most don't have). They can't post comments without an > account. Fair p

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 13 Nov 2009, at 00:15 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Masklinn masklinn.net> writes: >> >> On 13 Nov 2009, at 00:00 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> >>> Then why not simply add a sentence or two before the comment form warning > that >>> the comment

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 13 Nov 2009, at 00:00 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Then why not simply add a sentence or two before the comment form warning that > the comment system is not meant to ask for help, support or debugging about > the > package? Because users don't read warnings. The warning will therefore be promp

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 12 Nov 2009, at 23:44 , James Y Knight wrote: > On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Masklinn wrote: >> On 12 Nov 2009, at 22:53 , James Y Knight wrote: >>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >>>> I think Jesse's point (or, if he's not willing to cl

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 12 Nov 2009, at 22:53 , James Y Knight wrote: > On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> I think Jesse's point (or, if he's not willing to claim it, my point) is >> that, compared to the mandatory comment system, it makes much *more* >> sense to have a mandatory field for “URL to the BT

Re: [Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

2009-11-12 Thread Masklinn
On 12 Nov 2009, at 17:31 , Jesse Noller wrote: > > But before we even did those; why not have mandatory links for entries > to bug trackers, mailing lists, source repositories, etc? I'm saying > saying this doesn't seem well thought out, and the current > implementation is broken by design. Of cou

Re: [Python-Dev] Top-posting on this list

2009-10-11 Thread Masklinn
On 11 Oct 2009, at 13:36 , Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: Trimming can be a PITA if you're using a crummy MUA How so? It merely requires the ability to navigate up and down by lines, and to select and delete text. I've

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-08 Thread Masklinn
On 8 Oct 2009, at 19:22 , David Cournapeau wrote: This is not true - stow solves the problem in a more general way (in the sense that it is not restricted to python), at least on platforms which support softlink. I was, of course, talking about "pure" Python solutions (but I should indeed have

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-08 Thread Masklinn
On 8 Oct 2009, at 18:17 , Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This is not at all how I use virtualenv. For me virtualenv is a sandbox so that I don't have to become root whenever I need to install a Python package for testing purposes This is needing to install multiple versions and use the newly insta

Re: [Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)

2009-10-08 Thread Masklinn
On 8 Oct 2009, at 18:17 , Toshio Kuratomi wrote: This is not at all how I use virtualenv. For me virtualenv is a sandbox so that I don't have to become root whenever I need to install a Python package for testing purposes This is needing to install multiple versions and use the newly ins