Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecate `from __future__ import unicode_literals`?

2016-12-16 Thread Xavier Combelle
I personally used it when I was forced to use python 2 and working mainly with unicode processing (It is particularly handy when working with json for example) Le 16/12/2016 à 20:24, Guido van Rossum a écrit : > I am beginning to think that `from __future__ import unicode_literals` > does more ha

Re: [Python-Dev] Someons's put a "Python 2.8" on GitHub

2016-12-10 Thread Xavier Combelle
> I believe that this 'derived work' is both a trademark and a license > violation. Clause 7 of the PSF License V. 2, as displayed by '>>> > license()', explicitly denies permission to make derivative works that > violate PSF Trademarks. Perhaps Github and Infoworld should be > informed also, bu

Re: [Python-Dev] Review request: issue 27350, compact ordered dict

2016-08-14 Thread Xavier Combelle
On 10/08/2016 17:06, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > * there are nice speedups > in this blog post https://morepypy.blogspot.fr/2015/01/faster-more-memory-efficient-and-more.html it is mentioned big speedup only on microbenchmark and small speedups on pypy benchmark. is it what you call nice speedups

Re: [Python-Dev] Profile Guided Optimization active by-default

2015-08-25 Thread Xavier Combelle
Pardon me if I'm not in the right place to ask the following naive question. (say me if it's the case) Does Profile Guided Optimization performance improvements are specific to the chip where the built is done or the performance is better on a larger set of chips? _

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 492 documentation

2015-08-02 Thread Xavier Combelle
Shouldn't at least ayncio doc https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/asyncio.html be updated accordingly ? for example https://docs.python.org/3.5/search.html?q=await&check_keywords=yes&area=default doesn't mention https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/asyncio.html 2015-08-02 16:21 GMT+02:00 Yury Seliv

Re: [Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

2015-05-31 Thread Xavier Combelle
> +1. The new embeddable Python distribution for Windows is a great step > forward for this. It's not single-file, but it's easy to produce a > single-directory self-contained application with it. I don't know if > there's anything equivalent for Linux/OSX - maybe it's something we > should look at

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP or formal description of Python module structure

2012-10-15 Thread Xavier Combelle
Le 15/10/2012 09:43, anatoly techtonik a écrit : Hi, I am trying to figure out what Python module is internally (WIP http://wiki.python.org/moin/techtonik)? Is there already a good piece of documentation that I missed that can answer all these questions already? ...what properties do you get in