Re: [Python-Dev] features i'd like [Python 3000] ... #3: fix super()

2007-01-06 Thread Robey Pointer
On 4 Dec 2006, at 3:13, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Ben Wing wrote: >> i don't like the current super() at all. having to type super(Foo, >> self).__init__(...) is messy, hard to remember, and error-prone. > > Yup. > >> it >> also introduces an unfortunate dependency in that the name of the >> clas

Re: [Python-Dev] [Doc-SIG] that library reference, again

2006-01-26 Thread Robey Pointer
On 30 Dec 2005, at 18:29, Christopher Armstrong wrote: > On 12/30/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity (really -- not trying to jump into the flames) >> why not just use epydoc? If it's good enough for 3rd-party python >&

Re: [Python-Dev] [Doc-SIG] that library reference, again

2006-01-26 Thread Robey Pointer
On 29 Dec 2005, at 23:13, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Robey Pointer wrote: >>> [Fredrik Lundh] >>>> Really? >>> >>> Yes, really. >> >> Just out of curiosity (really -- not trying to jump into the flames) >> why not just use epydoc? If it

Re: [Python-Dev] [Doc-SIG] that library reference, again

2005-12-29 Thread Robey Pointer
On 29 Dec 2005, at 18:58, David Goodger wrote: > [Fredrik Lundh] I'm beginning to fear that I've wasted my time on a project that nobody's interested in. > > [David Goodger] >>> Could be. I don't see HTML+PythonDoc as a significant improvement >>> over LaTeX. > > [Fredrik Lundh] >> Real

Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-23 Thread Robey Pointer
On 23 Dec 2005, at 0:53, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Robey Pointer wrote: >> On 22 Dec 2005, at 3:51, Michael Hudson wrote: >> >>> "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> Checked the python-list archives lately? I

Re: [Python-Dev] status of development documentation

2005-12-22 Thread Robey Pointer
On 22 Dec 2005, at 3:51, Michael Hudson wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Checked the python-list archives lately? If you google c.l.python >> for the >> word "documentation", you'll find recent megathreads with subjects >> like >> "bitching about the documentation",

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-10-10 Thread Robey Pointer
On 29 Sep 2005, at 12:06, Steven Bethard wrote: > On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: >> >> http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html >> >> says: >&

[Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread Robey Pointer
Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html says: Py_UNICODE This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which is used by Python internally as basis for holding Unicode ordinals. On platforms where wcha

Re: [Python-Dev] Open issues for 2.4.1

2005-03-12 Thread Robey Pointer
Anthony Baxter wrote: So here's a list of open items I'm thinking about for the 2.4.1 release. - os.access handling unicode filenames I'm still thinking over whether this is going to cause more problems for people who find it works for some Python 2.4 and not others. I'm leaning towards s

Re: [Python-Dev] Exceptions *must*? be old-style classes?

2005-01-16 Thread Robey Pointer
Guido van Rossum wrote: The base of the Exception hierarchy happens to be a classic class. But why are they "required" to be classic? More to the point, is this a bug, a missing feature, or just a bug in the documentation for not mentioning the restriction? It's an unfortunate feature; it shou