Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 10:56 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:44:32 + > Tim Wintle wrote: > > > > 2.5 apps are the speed-critical ones. Our tests showed the performance > > was different enough between 2.5 and 2.6 for me to not update. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Wintle
r many years, but porting the 2.6 and 2.4 code to either pypy or python3 in the not too distant future. I believe we're most likely to choose python3 for apps with heavy use of Unicode (and pick a version after the changes to internal unicode format landed). Tim Wintle

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries

2011-12-10 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 19:39 +0100, Xavier Morel wrote: > On 2011-12-09, at 19:15 , Bill Janssen wrote: > > I use ElementTree for parsing valid XML, but minidom for producing it. > Could you expand on your reasons to use minidom for producing XML? To throw my 2c in here: I personally normally use

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu

2011-04-01 Thread Tim Wintle
pdate to 11.04 in a few months) - so this will directly affect me. I'm fairly sure that others will be in the same situation. Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the same library paths), their development environments will. As a res

Re: [Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

2010-07-12 Thread Tim Wintle
oretical bounds on cases that were (in my code at least) unusual. The really good use case for RE2 is for applications where users can write regular expressions as input (exactly what RE2 was designed for) - but I'm not sure how common those applications are. Tim Wintle

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-28 Thread Tim Wintle
tly without a large (funded) core team focusing on code generation. Personally, picking up the (current) python code, I was able to comfortably start modifying it within a few hours - with the V8 codebase I still haven't got a clue what's going on where, to be honest. Tim Wintl