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

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Sparks
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > "Martin v. Löwis" writes: > >> > Why can't we just disable it until we can come up with a better >> > system that finds a balance between the rights of maintainers, and >> > those of the user? >> >> Because I want to wait for the outcome of th

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

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: ... > Frankly, I agree with him. As implemented, I *and others* think this > is broken. I've taken the stance of not publishing things to PyPi > until A> I find the time to contribute to make it better or B> It > changes. Ditto, but maybe for d

Re: [Python-Dev] People want CPAN :-)

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Sparks
[ I'm posting this comment in reply to seeing this thread: * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/11359 Which has been reposted around - and I've read that thread. I lurk on this list, in case anything comes up that I'd hope to be able to say something useful to. I don't kn

Re: [Python-Dev] Backport new float repr to Python 2.7?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Sparks
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Michael Sparks gmail.com> writes: >> >> I know it's the upteen-thousandth time it's been discussed, but >> removal of the GIL in 3.x would probably be pretty big carrots for >> some. I know th

Re: [Python-Dev] Backport new float repr to Python 2.7?

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Sparks
On Sunday 11 October 2009 21:00:41 Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > with all the > dependency-migration issues 3.x could definitely use some carrots. .. > everybody's favorate bugaboo, multicore parallelism. I know it's the upteen-thousandth time it's been discussed, but removal of the GIL in 3.x would pr

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 30XZ: Simplified Parsing

2007-05-03 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thursday 03 May 2007 15:40, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Teaching Python-based extraction tools about it isn't hard, just make > sure that you slurp in the whole argument, and eval it. We generate our component documentation based on going through the AST generated by compiler.ast, finding doc

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-10 Thread Michael Sparks
process boundaries though, but that's for the system composer to deal with, not the components). Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digital Media Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Development Kingswoo

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Sparks
On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:05, Josiah Carlson wrote: [ simplistic, informal benchmark of a test optimised versioned of the system, based on bouncing scaing rotating sprites around the screen. ] > Single process?  Multi-process single machine?  Multiprocess multiple > machine? SIngle process,

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:06, Bruce Eckel wrote: > So yes indeed, this is quite high on my list to research. Looks like > people there have been doing some interesting work. > > Right now I'm just trying to cast a net, so that people can put in > ideas, for when the Java book is done and I can

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Sparks
r. BTW, I hope it's clear that I'm not saying concurrency is easy per se (noting your previous post ;-) but rather than it /should/ be made as simple as is humanly possible. Thanks! Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digital Media Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamae

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Sparks
d for a "message passing"/"tuple space"/"IPC" library. Sounds interesting. I'll try and find some time to have a look and have a play. FWIW, we're also missing a prioritisation mechanism right now. Though currently I have SImon Wittber's latest re

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Sparks
a linda approach - since they're orthoganal approaches. Best Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digital Media Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Development Kingswood Warren, Surrey KT20 6NP T

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Sparks
cient. However, the way we're beginning to refer to the project is to refer to just the component aspect rather than concurrency - for one simple reason - we're getting to stage where we can ignore /most/ concurrency issues(not all). If you have any time for feed

Re: [Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency - cooperative MT

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Sparks
rl.com/dp8n7 (This really feels like this more of a comp.lang.python discussion really though, because AFAICT, python already has everything we need for this. I might revisit that thought when we've looked at shared memory issues though. IMHO though that would be largely stuff for the standa

Re: [Python-Dev] Active Objects in Python

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Sparks
On Friday 30 September 2005 22:13, Michael Sparks (home address) wrote: > I wrote a white paper based on my Python UK talk, which is here: >     * http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp11.shtml Oops that URL isn't right. It should be: * http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp113.s

Re: [Python-Dev] Active Objects in Python

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Sparks (home address)
hedskin will mitigate /our/ need to do that translation manually :-) If anyone's interested further, I'm happy to talk more (I'm going to Euro OSCON is anyone wants to discuss this there), but this feels like spamming the list so I'll leave things at that. However, so far we

Re: [Python-Dev] Information request; Keywords: compiler compiler, EBNF, python, ISO 14977

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Sparks
ng.python instead. Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digital Media Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Development Kingswood Warren, Surrey KT20 6NP This e-mail may contain personal views which are not the vie

Re: [Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Sparks
er ? (Assumption: That the word guarantee in this case matches that of the intent) If you just call the with statement a "resource manager" I suspect that people will more /naturally/ think just along the idea of resources, rather than also along the lines of things that need guara

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding Python-Native Threads

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Sparks
hy) that you revisit greenlets - they probably do what you want. Mainly replying to say "-1", Best Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digital Media Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Develo

Re: [Python-Dev] Withdrawn PEP 288 and thoughts on PEP 342

2005-06-17 Thread Michael Sparks
ps if you're taking the approach for generator composition if you're using twisted.flow (though I'll defer a good example for that to someone else since although I've been asked for a comparison in the past, I don't think I'm sufficiently twisted to do so!). Michael.

Re: [Python-Dev] Combining the best of PEP 288 and PEP 325: generator exceptions and cleanup

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Sparks
If you need a volunteer to code this - should it go through, I'm willing to have a go at this. (I can't do this though for 3 weeks or so though due to a crunch at work, and I might be in over my head in offering this.) Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior R&D Engineer, Digit

Re: [Python-Dev] anonymous blocks

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Sparks
xpr_33.p * L-System definition: http://www.cerenity.org/SWP/progs/expr_34.p * SML-like: http://www.cerenity.org/SWP/progs/expr_35.p * Amiga E/Algol like: http://www.cerenity.org/SWP/progs/expr_37.p Needs the modified version of PLY installed first, and the tests can be run using