[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
While I have not been involved in the release process for like 15 years or more, I would like to point out that breaking changes mean the distros are less likely to ship them, and be less likely to trust updates. Trying to get RH &c to stop shipping 1.5.2 was a huge effort. Always, any time when

[Python-Dev] Suggestion About Python Syntax

2021-03-03 Thread Anthony Farino
. You don’t need to worry about indentation, and you can indent whenever you want. I hope that you consider these issues and fix them in Python 4 (if you ever make it). Sincerely, Anthony, age 10. -- mmm# ## m mm mm#mm # mmmmm m mm m m

Re: [Python-Dev] Call for prudence about PEP-572

2018-07-09 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
earch(pattern, line)    if match is not None:        name = match.group(1)        if name and validate(name):          return name    else:    # No valid case    else:        # No Match case Best, Matěj -- -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@Tony

Re: [Python-Dev] Hashes in Python3.5 for tuples and frozensets

2018-05-17 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
on the speed of that operation; without consideration of how often that operation is used. On 17/05/18 09:16, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Anthony Flury via Python-Dev wrote: Victor, Thanks for the link, but to be honest it will just confuse people - neither the link

Re: [Python-Dev] Hashes in Python3.5 for tuples and frozensets

2018-05-17 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
d. The denial of service is more likely to occur with strings as keys, than with integers. See the following link for more information: http://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/cve-2012-1150_hash_dos.html Victor 2018-05-16 17:48 GMT-04:00 Anthony Flury via Python-Dev : This may be known but I w

[Python-Dev] Hashes in Python3.5 for tuples and frozensets

2018-05-16 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
frequently as hash keys - but I would think that tuples are regularly used. Since that their hashes are not salted does the vulnerability still exist in some form ?. -- -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@TonyFlury <https://twitter.com/TonyFlury/>* __

[Python-Dev] Review of Pull Request 5974 please

2018-04-29 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
ode under test which uses a pythonic code structure can't be fully tested fully using the standard library. -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@TonyFlury <https://twitter.com/TonyFlury/>* ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] assignment expressions: an alternative proposal

2018-04-24 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
x27;t overload parens in my opinion - we should have a separate operator - doing this avoids needing to exclude rebinding, and makes such expressions considerably more useful. -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@TonyFlury <https://twitter.com/TonyFlury/>

Re: [Python-Dev] assignment expressions: an alternative proposal

2018-04-24 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
t operator for assignments which return values avoids the messy potentially multiple level brackets, and means that the semantics of an operator depends only on that operator and not on syntax elements before and after it. -- -- Anthony Flury email

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

2018-04-21 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
level - for a beginner the comprehension may well be baffling where as someone with more skills would  understand it - almost intuitively; as an example: I have been using Python for 7 years - and comprehensions with more than one for loop still are not intuitive for me, I can't read them without a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

2018-04-21 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
on, and keeping track of which x is which (especially which x is being used in the conditional clause) : surely this would be better : [x_item for x_item in x if x_item] Your 2nd example makes no sense to me as to the intention of the code - the re-use of the name x is confusing at best.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions

2018-04-20 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
nge(5) for y in [f(x)]]                 can become : stuff = [[y := f(x), x/y] for x in range(5)] So - overall from me a conditional +1 - conditions as above; if they are not possible then -1 from me. -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@TonyFlury <https:

Re: [Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-06 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
Py2.7 change does not need to be rolled forward to Python3 documentation The two Py3.8 fixes could/should/can ? be backported to earlier versions These are all trivial with no conflicts with their target branch (or at least there wasn't when I made the requests). -- Anthony Flury

[Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-05 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
a open bug report) into 2.7, and I am keen to understand the planned time-line for those too. -- Anthony Flury email : *anthony.fl...@btinternet.com* Twitter : *@TonyFlury <https://twitter.com/TonyFlury/>* ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

[Python-Dev] Git hub : CLA Not Signed label

2018-03-10 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
All, I submitted two Pull Requests last Sunday, only a few hours after I signed the CLA. I understand why the 'Knights who say ni' marked the Pull request as 'CLA Not Signed' Label at the time I submitted the Pull requests, but I was wondering when the Labels get reset. How often (if at all

[Python-Dev] Looking for review on small argparse patch

2017-09-05 Thread Anthony Sottile
26510 Thanks in advance, Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 6 May 2014 07:51, "Paul Moore" wrote: > > > > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga > wrote: > > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained >

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
Thanks. I think I can live with that restriction. :-) I do not read/write to the same zip file in the same process. Anthony On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Anthony Tuininga < > anthony.tuini...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 5 May 2014 22:32, Anthony Tuininga wrote: > > So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has > remained > > in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. > &g

[Python-Dev] Existence of pythonNN.zip in sys.path

2014-05-05 Thread Anthony Tuininga
ion simply says that it is an installation default and doesn't specify what that default is. So my question is: can I safely make use of this "feature"? It has remained in place since at least Python 2.6 but I don't want to assume anything. P

Re: [Python-Dev] devguide: Backporting is obsolete. Add details that I had to learn.

2012-01-10 Thread Anthony Kong
I don't find 'major' and 'minor' confusing too. Maybe because it is the designation used in linux community for years. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Rob Cliffe wrote: > But "minor version" and "major version" are readily understandable to the > general reader, e.g. me, whereas "feature relea

Re: [Python-Dev] 3.2.1 encoding surprise

2011-07-18 Thread Anthony Kong
Similar outcome as Paul's. $ python3 t32enc.py $ python t32enc.py File "t32enc.py", line 1 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file t32enc.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details $ python3 -V Python 3.2.1a0 $ python -V Python 2.6.1

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Scopatz
ith Jesse, and we shouldn't heap on more TODOs than already exist. As people have mentioned here, it will be easy to add Cython support once the system is up and running. Be Well Anthony > > > > Stefan > > > > _

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Michael Foord > wrote: > > On 08/04/2011 00:36, Anthony Scopatz wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Foord > > > wrote: > >> > >> On 07/

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
marks already exist. If the point of the GSoC is to port the PyPy benchmarks to Python 3, under "Point (3) Porting", might I suggest a slight revision of the proposal ;)? Be Well Anthony > > All the best, > > Michael > > > I actually agree with Micheal. I think th

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
I actually agree with Micheal. I think the onus of getting the benchmarks working on every platform is the onus of that interpreter's community. The benchmarking framework that is being developed as part of GSoC should be agile enough to add and drop projects over time and be able to make

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
day (summer). Thanks for your consideration. Be Well Anthony > 2. Implementing the benchmark suite. Based on the prior agreed upon > definition, the suite will be implemented, which means that the > benchmarks will be merged into a single mercurial repository on > Bitbucket[5]. > > 3. P

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
I strongly urge another release candidate. But then, I am not doing the work, so take that advice for what it is... On Oct 14, 2009 10:18 AM, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I always thought that the idea of a release ... No, but let's do one anyway!

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 -> 3000 code transition?

2008-08-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
e to > what need fixing up going from beta to beta to rc. > > Oh and I'm not going to try and make a version of PyCXX that works > on 2.x and 3.x as the changes are too fundamental. > > Barry > > ___ > Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 -> 3000 code transition?

2008-08-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
o turn the slides into a series of articles. Right now, there's the What's New In Python 3.0, and the PEPs. The former isn't complete yet (obviously) and isn't all that detailed. The latter is a whole pile of text, some relevant and some not so much. Anthony On Wed, Aug 13,

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 -> 3000 code transition?

2008-07-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
consider using ctypes. So yes, collecting this information, even if it's just in a wiki page, would be a good and popular thing. Anthony (*) slides: http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/tech/talks/OSCON2008/porting3.pdf On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-25 Thread Anthony Roy
ow paid sys admin type roles, or are based in London. Cheers, -- Anthony Roy ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Alpha/Tru64 buildbot and SSL compile

2007-09-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
; Neal Norwitz and Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve have access to that > machine. Neal's on leave all this month, I believe. -- Anthony Baxter, ekit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (03) 9674 7015 Level 3 The Teahouse, 28 Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne Australia 3205

Re: [Python-Dev] summaries not arriving

2007-09-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Monday 10 September 2007, Paul Dubois wrote: > As a small boy I once knew wrote, I must not use bad words. (:-> It's OK to use them about Barry, though, surely? *wave* Hi Barry. -- Anthony Baxter, ekit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (03) 9674 7015 Level 3 The Teahouse, 28 Claren

Re: [Python-Dev] Need Survey Answers from Core Developers

2007-05-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
f>-- cPython, > not such much. We don't break down "major" or "minor" features, but according to the What's New In Python 2.5 doc: > A search through the > SVN change logs finds there were 353 patches applied and 458 bugs > fixed between Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-05-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
, I > am entirely opposed to any use of JavaScript. What about flash, instead, then? /ducks -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Official version support statement

2007-05-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
fix releases - only one maintenance branch (most recent) for the bugfix releases - the last bugfix release of the previous release after a new major release. I'm OK with these being formalised - but any additional requirements I'd like to discuss first :-) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

[Python-Dev] best practices stdlib: purging xrange

2007-05-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
tions? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailma

[Python-Dev] 2.5 branch unfrozen

2007-04-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ok, things seem to be OK. So the release25-maint branch is unfrozen. Go crazy. Well, a little bit crazy. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5.1, FINAL

2007-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
clude: Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 150 have been fixed. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.5) are available from the Python 2.5 page, at http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Re

Re: [Python-Dev] my 2.5 checkins

2007-04-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
x27;t strike me as critical enough to need that - and I'm not happy to do the release and just hope. I'll roll them all back. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5.1, release candidate 1

2007-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
g/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5.1 release candidate

2007-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
blem, > > eliminating some segfaults, and fixing some exception code)? > > No, the release binaries are all produced, and just await upload. Apologies for the delay in the uploading - some stuff came up over the Easter break, and then the website wouldn't rebuild (David and A

[Python-Dev] branch is frozen for release of 2.5.1c1 (and 2.5.1)

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
n! Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ 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] A Survey on Defect Management Practices in Free/Open Source Software

2007-04-03 Thread Anthony Baxter
addressed (well, to "Python Contributors"), which is a step ahead of most of them. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://m

Re: [Python-Dev] Standard Image and Sound classes (was: SoC proposal: multimedia library)

2007-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
of the data for each transfer. > > I agree. I withdrew my original "multimedia library" idea and > submitted a proposal for the creation of two standard Image and > Sound classes. Ideally you'd hook this into the standard library's existing sound file handli

[Python-Dev] 2.5.1, buildbots and my availability

2007-03-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm moving house today and tomorrow, and don't expect to have internet access connected up at home til sometime next week. In the meantime, if there's urgent 2.5.1 related issues, bear with me, as I'll only be on email during the working day. cc Neal (hi Neal :) is the best bet. Also, the cygwi

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

2007-03-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
this, I can't remember if you were one of these). My standard response to this is that people who really feel like this are welcome to pick a release, say, 2.3, and take on the process of backporting the relevant bugfixes back to that release, and cutting new releases, &c. -- Anthon

Re: [Python-Dev] Backports of standard library modules

2007-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
ink anyone would mind. There is (as Martin also stated) zero chance that I will do this additional work. It scratches no itches for me, and has the potential to add an enormous amount to my workload of doing a new release. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

2007-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
x in any way shape or form. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] version-specific PYTHONPATH env var

2007-03-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
e specific version this problem would go away. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] Encouraging developers

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
quot; but hell, there's a lot of different components that make up Python. That would be a maintenance and management nightmare. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing l

Re: [Python-Dev] Wrapping up 'dynamic attribute' discussion

2007-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
pen as a possibility for a future PEP. A good first step would be to contribute something like this to the Python Cookbook, if it isn't already there. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary: rejection of 'dynamic attribute' syntax

2007-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:48, Steve Holden wrote: > Greg Ewing wrote: > > Steve Holden wrote: > >> A further data point is that modern machines seem to give > >> timing variabilities due to CPU temperature variations even if > >> you always eat exactly the same thing. > > > > Oh, great. Now w

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of "dynamic attribute access" discussion

2007-02-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
s()/items(). The globals() and locals() builtins also provide an alternate view with "different notation to access it". Since you're creating the view explicitly, I really don't see the problem - any more than say, creating a set from a list, or a dict from a list, or the like.

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of "dynamic attribute access" discussion

2007-02-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
t, either, but it's there for people who need it. I again ask for examples of other compelling uses that wouldn't be better solved by using a dictionary with keys rather than an object with attributes. Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing l

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of "dynamic attribute access" discussion

2007-02-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
turn in performance on a very > > marginal feature. > > The performance question is important, certainly. Initial > reaction on python-ideas was that a 1% cost would not count as > substantial I'd disagree. Those 1% losses add up, and it takes a heck of a lot of work to

Re: [Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

2007-02-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
ax that currently causes this problem the most) is with webpages and with printed books with code. Sure, everyone can pick a font for coding that they can read, but that's not the only way you read code. This is my issue with the foo.(bar) syntax. The period is far far too small and easy

Re: [Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

2007-02-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Monday 12 February 2007 18:38, Neil Toronto wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > I have to say that I'm not that impressed by either the 1-arg > > or 2-arg versions. Someone coming across this syntax for the > > first time will not have any hints as to what it means - an

Re: [Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

2007-02-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
I have to say that I'm not that impressed by either the 1-arg or 2-arg versions. Someone coming across this syntax for the first time will not have any hints as to what it means - and worse, it looks like a syntax error to me. -1 from me. ___ Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python/Python-ast.c need to be checked in?

2007-02-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
.py script that builds the releases does a "touch" on the relevant files to make sure that make gets the build right. We had bugs opened at one point because the timestamps meant you needed a python interpreter to build python. I'm not _too_ stressed i

Re: [Python-Dev] Floor division

2007-01-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
can always make 2.6 warn about the floatobject's __mod__ function being called if the -W py3k option is on, that gets us part of the way there. And if we have a "-3" option or the like that also turns on maximum 3.x compat, that will enable true division, producing the warning.

Re: [Python-Dev] syntax misfeature (exception)

2007-01-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
add "except a as b" to 2.6 - we're just not ripping out the old way of doing it. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] The bytes type

2007-01-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:52, James Y Knight wrote: > Yes, this is it. As a refinement: if the New Way can easily be > backported to 2.5, Um - 2.5 is _done_. Released. In maintenance mode. New features will not be getting backported to a 2.5.x release. Anthony -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
idea (in another email) of trying to look up globals would probably cause a horrible performance issue, but it may be possible to do _something_ clever. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
on't see a path forward that doesn't involve something painful, so long as 3.0 is going to be the clean break. As I mentioned, though, I'd like as far as possible to make it so that 2.6 (with a flag) can be at least vaguely compatible with 3.0. Anthony -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
de does not have to entail dulling the trusty old blade. I completely disagree here. We cannot simply ignore 3.0 in the 2.x series. We need to provide (as much as possible) an upgrade path for people who write and use code in the language. Anthony -- Antho

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
changed raise A, B into raise A(B) applied to the trunk. This makes it much easier to apply patches to both the 3.0 branch and the trunk. Similar changes should be applied to remove, for instance, use of <> and dict.has_key from the stdlib. Simply put, I'd like the stdlib between 2 and 3

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
ad. Checking a single C global int is hardly going to make a huge impact at all. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:48, Thomas Wouters wrote: > They serve a different purpose, and it isn't taking any time away > from me (or Anthony, I can confidently guess) working on 2to3. Correct. Note that checking for something like dict.has_key is going to be far far more re

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
C code modules use the same functions. There's other changes that are probably too hard to warn about, because there's not an easy replacement - the exec and print statements come to mind here. Comments? What else should get warnings? Anthony ___

Re: [Python-Dev] kill the cbsoutdoor.co.uk autoresponder

2007-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 05 January 2007 17:40, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > Whoever is subscribed to python-dev with a broken corporate > autoresponder that sends everyone who posts to the list this > useless response multiple times please unsubscribe yourself. Its > highly annoying and entirely useless since its

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for python SIP and MGCP stacks

2006-12-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
otocol > stacks before which can be leveraged from. This should go to python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python), not this list. This list is for development _of_ python, not development _in_ python. Thanks, Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:19, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Of course, if the project management decide that even the EMX > support should be removed from the official tree - so be it; I > will just have to maintain the port outside the official tree. I feel that so long as there's an active maint

[Python-Dev] fileinput module tests

2006-12-09 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I have a patch for the fileinput.FileInput class, adding a parameter to the __init__ method called write_mode in order to specify the write mode when using the class with the inplace parameter set to True. Before I submit the patch, I've added a test to the test module, and noticed that t

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
LSB, > actually. Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. __

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
hon. It's worth noting that the entirety of the Python stdlib is a required package, so it doesn't cause issues.) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
or 2.6. note that read I agree that a warning seems best. If someone (for whatever reason) is flinging floats around where they actually meant to have ints, going straight to an error from silently truncating and accepting it seems a little bit harsh. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL P

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 10 November 2006 13:45, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > OK, I'll backport it; thanks! > > (It's not fixing a frequent data-loss problem -- the patch just > assures that when flush() or close() returns, data is more likely to > have been written to disk and be safe after a subsequent system > crash

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
ails. I'm happy for it to go into release25-maint (particularly because the consequences of the bug are so dire). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

2006-11-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
uilding is a tiny part of the problem... or am I missing something? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] __dir__, part 2

2006-11-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
completely appropriate, too. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, FINAL

2006-11-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: [Python-Dev] build bots, log output

2006-10-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
. This solution doesn't require changes to the buildslave code at all - only to the buildmaster and to regrtest. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Py

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52482 - in python/branches/release25-maint: Lib/urllib.py Lib/urllib2.py Misc/NEWS

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
rity related bugs) will get a new release, and then only with the serious bugfixes applied. One active maintenance branch is quite enough to deal with, IMHO. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, release candidate 1

2006-10-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
ease notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

2006-10-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
Thanks to the folks involved in this prcocess - I'm looking forward to getting the hell away from SF's bug tracker. :-) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscr

[Python-Dev] state of the maintenance branches

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
tion becomes better understood. Anyway, all of the above is open to disagreement or other opinions - if you have them, let me know. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev maili

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.4, Final.

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpHQFKzDQCYF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
he http version that was down) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:59, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > FYI -- can't do svn checkouts/updates from the trunk at this point. > > starting svn operation > svn update --revision HEAD > in dir /home/twistbot/pybot/trunk.gheorghiu-x86/build (timeout 1200 secs) > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/pr

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE release24-maint, Wed 18th Oct, 00:00UTC

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
edge wants to review that it can be checked in. It _should_ be good, and probably needs to be applied to release25-maint and the trunk as well. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
u're willing to > coordinate, is there anything we can do to help? Less than a normal release, since I'm not going to worry about changing the docs, the windows installers or the mac installers. I'll look at it next week, once 2.4.4 final is done. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:54, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Martin v. L�wis wrote: > > In 2.3.6, there wouldn't just be that change, but also a few other > > changes that have been collected, some relevant for Windows as well > > why not just do a "2.3.5+security" source release, and leave the rest to

Re: [Python-Dev] os.utime on directories: bug fix or new feature?

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
releases having new capabilities. Since it wasn't possible in earlier than 2.5 either, I'd say it's on the edge of being a bugfix. Let's be conservative and not backport it, since it's also a pretty marginal feature. Anthony --

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
such as the release > >>team by allowing everything necessary to be generated from a simple set > >>of data that wouldn't be difficult to maintain. Anthony has enough on > >>his plate without having to fight the web server too ... > > > > There is alw

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
ne, macteagle. For some reason builds fail on it right now - Ronald might be able to supply more details as to why. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
have to have an overall infrastructure that lets you make > incremental tweaks to the tool chain, so things can get a little better > all the time. Pyramid obviously isn't such a system. I can't disagree with this. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It'

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
ry, as an HTML fragment. click "save" to publish. > > 3) mail out an announcement when everything looks good. > > Maybe I should offer Anthony to do the releases via effbot.org instead? First off - I'm not going to be posting 10M or 16M files through a web-browser. That&#x

Re: [Python-Dev] Why spawnvp not implemented on Windows?

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
> portable code at all. "One" might say that. I wouldn't. It stays out until 2.6. Sorry Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

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