Re: [Python-Dev] Information about how cpython in benchmarked

2011-03-29 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
e: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg > > wrote: > >> PyPy maintains http://speed.pypy.org/, which provides very clear > information > >> about the relative performance of PyPy trunk against some version of > cpython > >> (presumabl

[Python-Dev] Information about how cpython in benchmarked

2011-03-29 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi all, Apologies for emailing this list with such an apparently trivial question. Is there some source of documentation or information on how Python is benchmarked? I am aware of the Python regression testing module, regrtest.py, which I presume, if profiled, would good be a good baseline test.

Re: [Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

2009-05-12 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real > featureful > > schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense > to > > tighten future release planning a little? > > Do you have any speci

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 69, Issue 143

2009-04-16 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
iling list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/tleeuwenburg%40gmail.com > -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ &

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-16 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
My thoughts on balance regarding monthdeltas: -- Month operations are useful, people will want to do them -- I think having a monthdelta object rather than a method makes sense to me -- I think the documentation is severely underdone. The functionality is not intuitive and therefore the

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-16 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
p > functionality provided by monthmod is important to ensure that > monthdeltas are "first-class" objects. > > Please let me know what you think of the idea and/or its execution. > > thanks, > Jess Austin > _______ > Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
ng/committing fixes > > 2x "keyring package" -- see > > http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/ > . > The poorer one of these will probably be axed unless Tarek gives it > strong support. > > -- > >

Re: [Python-Dev] http://bugs.python.org/issue2240

2009-04-08 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven < asmo...@in-nomine.org> wrote: > -On [20090408 05:24], Tennessee Leeuwenburg (tleeuwenb...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >It seems like the bug relates only to an older version of a 'weird' > >operating

[Python-Dev] slightly inconsistent set/list pop behaviour

2009-04-07 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Now, I know that sets aren't ordered, but... foo = set([1,2,3,4,5]) bar = [1,2,3,4,5] foo.pop() will reliably return 1 while bar.pop() will return 5 discuss :) Cheers, -T ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Python-Dev] http://bugs.python.org/issue2240

2009-04-07 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Guilherme Polo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg > wrote: > > This issue has been largely resolved, but there is an outstanding bug > where > > the (reviewed and committed) solution does not work on certain vers

[Python-Dev] http://bugs.python.org/issue2240

2009-04-07 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
with regards to supporting dependencies like this? Should I set this issue to 'pending' seeing as no-one is currently working on a patch for this? Or is leaving this open and hanging around exactly the right thing to do? Cheers, -T -- ---------- T

[Python-Dev] Is there an issue with bugs.python.org currently

2009-04-07 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Sadly, my work firewall/proxy often handles things badly, so I can't actually tell. Is bugs.python.org accepting changes at the moment (I'm trying to update the Stage of an issue)? Cheers, -T -- -- Tennessee Leeuwe

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
| > Ben Finney > > ___ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

2009-03-25 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
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Re: [Python-Dev] tracker status options

2009-03-24 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi Ron, Good flowchart. Cheers, -T On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ron Adam wrote: > > > Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm continuing to (slowly) work through issues. I have been looking >> particularly at a lot of the open issues re

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker status options

2009-03-23 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > That would be great. It occurs to me that if we wanted to use > > "Stage" settings, it would be easy to search for issues which are > > not closed by literally searching for 'not closed' rather than > > 'open'. I think

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker status options

2009-03-22 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
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[Python-Dev] tracker status options

2009-03-18 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi all, I'm continuing to (slowly) work through issues. I have been looking particularly at a lot of the open issues regarding strftime. It would be great to put in some of those extra status options that were discussed recently... "Open/New" "Needs help / Chatting" "Under development"

[Python-Dev] Capability to alter issue metadata

2009-03-12 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
http://bugs.python.org/issue4535 should probably be set to "pending feedback" I'd be happy to do this kind of thing if people are happy for me to do so... -T -- ------ Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don'

[Python-Dev] Approaches to argument type-checking

2009-03-11 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
the exception to occur deeper in the code? Are there performance issues surrounding defensive programming? Regards, -Tennessee -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" ___

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Addition of further status options to tracker

2009-03-10 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
suggestions etc) then they won't need to spend as much time on simple maintenance. Cheers, -T -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of further status options to tracker

2009-03-09 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> > I don't mind what approach is taken -- I'm happy to work within the >> current infrastructure if someone can suggest a good way. I really just want >> to be able to start distinguishing between issues that are essentially new >> and under debate versus issues that most people agree are a "Good

[Python-Dev] Review of Issue http://bugs.python.org/issue2706, timedelta operators

2009-03-09 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
ould make the changes more atomic and the code patch simpler. -T -- ------ Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of further status options to tracker

2009-03-09 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 20:25, Tennessee Leeuwenburg < > tleeuwenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am beginning reviewing some more issues in the tracker. I think it would >> be use

[Python-Dev] Addition of further status options to tracker

2009-03-09 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
process... Comments welcome! Crocker's rules, but please keep it constructive... -T -- ---------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" __

[Python-Dev] reviewing patches

2009-03-09 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
re that a formal or semi-formal approval process would make anything better, I think it would be good if there were some kind of 'executive review' process by which an issue could be marked as being a good thing or not. Regards, -Tennessee -- ------

Re: [Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() and Queue.full()

2009-03-06 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
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Re: [Python-Dev] draft 3.1 release schedule

2009-03-06 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> Well, that happens. An alternative to withdrawing entirely, would be > increasing the price (eg, to ten patches as you originally suggested). > Or specifying windows in your calendar when the offer is open. Eg, > avoid doubling up on release times when you need make time to build > installers e

Re: [Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() and Queue.full()

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
y -- I am aware that some people take a great deal of personal ownership of their works, while others are impatient with a soft approach. Regards, -Tennessee On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, wrote: > Yup, I'd need to remove support in multiprocessing too. > > > On Mar 4, 2009 8

[Python-Dev] forgive my patch submission

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
stage. Regards, -Tennessee -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

[Python-Dev] What to do about failing tests

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
On my local checkout I notice a number of failing tests (test_fileio test_grp test_io test_urllib2_localnet). Is there anything that I should attempt to do regarding these? -Tennessee ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() and Queue.full()

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
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Re: [Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() and Queue.full()

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
tinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/tleeuwenburg%40gmail.com > -- -- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think" _

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections ready for pronouncement

2009-03-04 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hello all, First a comment on-thread: I can't wait to get an ordered dictionary in the stdlib! The discussion regarding suggestions for the name appears to be ongoing. What about the name 'orderdict' instead of 'ordereddict'?. It doesn't contain the double-d, is slightly shorter, and I think a l

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing the GIL (Me, not you!)

2007-09-13 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Pardon me for talking with no experience in such matters, but... Okay, incrementing a reference counter is atomic, therefore the cheapest possible operation. Is it possible to keep reference counting atomic in a multi-thread model? Could you do the following... let's consider two threads, "A" and

[Python-Dev] Compiling Python 2.5 and settinf UCS2 flag

2007-09-10 Thread Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Hi all, I have an unusual use case in which some software I work on compiles a version of Python for distribution. I'm not 100% across this as it's not at all my area of responsibility, but I have been having some issues lately. My hand-compiled version of Python 2.5 works just fine, and in turn