[Python-Dev] "make test" routinely fails to terminate

2018-05-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
back (most recent call last): File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/unittest/mock.py", line 1191, in patched return func(*args, **keywargs) File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_unix_events.py", line 219, in test_remove_signal_handler_erro

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] bpo-33522: Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services (GH-6865) (GH-6925)

2018-05-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
de that some of the changes will be improvements, but I think such changes belong in separate PRs. Even if that means you have to postpone the core bits of this change until they are merged. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python

Re: [Python-Dev] (Looking for) A Retrospective on the Move to Python 3

2018-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
> I have found 2to3 conversion to be remarkably easy and painless. > And the whole Unicode thing is much easier. The intersection of bytes, str and unicode has been the only pain point for me. Everything else I've encountered has been pretty trivial.

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?

2018-05-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
itself being deprecated, then removed, from the stdlib. I believe it was the sole persistent key/value store for most of the early years. So, bugs or not (& fixable or not) it's not like we haven't encountered this kind of case before. Skip ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?

2018-05-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
: * submit some bug reports * review patches related to the problems, assuming there are some * write some patches for the documentation adding warnings about sketchy bits Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

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

2018-04-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
in Python, the syntax motto might better be stated, "We will ship no syntax before its time." (With apologies to Ernest and Julio Gallo.) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev U

Re: [Python-Dev] Trying to build from source, test-poplib fails

2018-04-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Do you have ca-certificates installed? It seems so: % apt search ca-certificates | grep installed ca-certificates/artful,artful,now 20170717 all [installed] ca-certificates-mono/artful,artful,now 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 all [installed,automatic] liblwp-protocol-https-perl/artful,artful,now

[Python-Dev] Trying to build from source, test-poplib fails

2018-04-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
: test_stls_context (__main__.TestPOP3Class) ... Exception in thread Thread-16: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/skip/src/python/cpython/Lib/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "Lib/test/test_poplib.py", line 227, in run asyncore.loop(

[Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

2018-04-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
"no" as I don't see a patch.) Skip ___ 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] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Modifying GitHub Labels is only available to people with commit privs and, > IIRC, Skip asked to drop his commit privs a few years ago (although I'm sure > we would all be happy to welcome him back!). Alas, then I would feel some obligation to be semi-responsive to buggy things in ar

Re: [Python-Dev] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
from special-purpose > patch branches, as described in the devguide. Thanks. I clearly need to brush up on workflow and etiquette. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsu

Re: [Python-Dev] gdb support could use some love

2018-04-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
tation for the user-defined commands). Unfortunately, it's been so long since I contributed, I don't quite understand the ins and outs of the workflow anymore. In particular, I could find no way to add the "skip news" label. I'm afraid someone might have to intervene here: https://github.co

Re: [Python-Dev] [ssl] The weird case of IDNA

2017-12-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Guido wrote: This being a security issue I think it's okay to break 3.6. might even backport to 3.5 if it's easy? Is it also a security issue with 2.x? If so, should a fix to 2.7 be contemplated? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Support of the Android platform

2017-12-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
I'm not familiar with software development on/for Android, but wouldn't official support also involve suitable package creation or does that just fall out for free from the build-for-emulator PR? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

2017-11-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
than dateutil.parser.parse. This makes sense, as the latter tries to figure out what you've given it (you never give it a format string), while in the absence of a format string, arrow.get assumes you have an ISO-8601 date/time, with only a few small variations allowed. Skip On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2

Re: [Python-Dev] iso8601 parsing

2017-11-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> arrow.get('2017-10-20T08:20:08.986166+00:00') >>> arrow.get('2017-10-20T08:20:08.986166+00:00').datetime datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 20, 8, 20, 8, 986166, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, 0)) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python

Re: [Python-Dev] Partial support of a platform

2017-11-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
latform on this Git branch: https://github.com/python/Butterfly * MothOS - Skip Montanaro (skip.montan...@gmail.com) is working to add CPython support for this platform on this Git branch: https://github.com/smontanaro/Moth Interested parties would be directed to contact the pilots of tho

Re: [Python-Dev] Why aren't decorators just expressions?

2017-09-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
might have been the most significant driving force in the development of decorators, which, I believe, were always just thought if as nothing more than syntactic sugar for existing common use cases. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@p

Re: [Python-Dev] A reminder for PEP owners

2017-09-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
> But someone has to > review and accept all those PEPs, and I can't do it all by myself. An alternate definition for BDFL is "Benevolent Delegator For Life." :-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.py

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Python programming language vulnerabilities

2017-09-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
This popped up on python-list. It actually seems to me like it might be interesting to the core developers. Apologies if I've missed my guess. Skip -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Michell <stephen.mich...@maurya.on.ca> Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:34 PM Subject:

Re: [Python-Dev] Python startup time

2017-07-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
that support it. I've been using Emacs far longer than Python. I remember having to invoke temacs on something. Still, if I didn't know better, I could be convinced you were referring to the GIL. :-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] Extracting python bytecode from a linux core dump?

2017-06-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
pt in memory. So, how do I find the memory holding the > compiled byte-code ? Correct. The module level bytecode is executed once at import time, then discarded, at least that used to be how it was done. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 7 and braces { .... } on if

2017-06-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
alid_escape) < 0) { > Py_DECREF(result); > return NULL; > } > > What other core developers think about this? Wow, this discussion takes me back. Glad I don't have to check out comp.lang.c to get my brace placement fix. Skip _

Re: [Python-Dev] Exact date of Python 2 EOL?

2017-03-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
focuses. This could very well be a useful gauge for potential users. Skip ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] GDB macros in Misc/gdbinit are broken

2017-02-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
ing for me on a debug build of Python 2.7.13 (I ran strings over my GDB executable first to see if it knew anything about Python, and it did). Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: [Python-Dev] GDB macros in Misc/gdbinit are broken

2017-02-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
.) I'm a simple man. I need the kind of stuff Misc/gdbinit provides (smart stack traces and variable printing), but I most frequently use the pyo user-defined command to print the contents of PyObject pointers. When they are working () pystack and pyframe are also useful. Skip On Tue, Feb 28, 2017

Re: [Python-Dev] GDB macros in Misc/gdbinit are broken

2017-02-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
ope it's better now. I added a comment to Alexander's bug report. Skip ___ 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%40m

[Python-Dev] Why is PyDateTimeAPI not initialized by datetime module import?

2017-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
their for ages, so there must have been a good reason at one time. Is that reason still valid today? (I haven't programmed at the C API level for a good long while, or I'm sure I'd have encountered this before.) Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 branch in Mercurial?

2016-11-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
Cool, thanks to Ned and Zach. Hg never gets allocated very many neurons in my brain. Then there's the whole brain-in-neutral aspect of things which makes me fail to consider there might be help and/or closed branches which aren't displayed... Sorry for the distraction. Skip

[Python-Dev] 2.6 branch in Mercurial?

2016-10-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing li

Re: [Python-Dev] Have I got my hg dependencies correct?

2016-10-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
hg up -C solved my problem, but I'm still a bit confused (nothing new, in addition to which I only use hg for my Python repositories)... Why didn't a plain "hg up" tell me it couldn't update some files because of changes? Or, like git (I think), attempt to incorporate the upstream changes

Re: [Python-Dev] Have I got my hg dependencies correct?

2016-10-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
ld my world, doing the necessary work to update and build each branch. Skip ___ 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] Have I got my hg dependencies correct?

2016-10-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible that the fix wasn't propagated to > the 2.7 branch? Or perhaps I've fouled up my hg repo relationships? Either way, I went ahead and opened a ticket: http://bugs.python.org/i

[Python-Dev] Have I got my hg dependencies correct?

2016-10-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
8.0 installed. Any suggestions? Skip ___ 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] Missing PY_ prefixes in structmember.h

2016-10-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
one of that set of flags does have a "PY_" prefix. Why didn't these flags (and the T_* flags in structmember.h) get swept up in all the hubbub around the grand renaming. Skip On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-10-03

[Python-Dev] Missing PY_ prefixes in structmember.h

2016-10-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
hon-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/great-or-grand-renaming.html>. Looking at the documentation on defining new types, I saw no mention of these peculiarly named constants, though they are clearly documented. Thanks, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pyth

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

2015-08-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
? whatever happened to wink?-ly, y'rs, Skip ___ 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] Where are bugs with the web site reported?

2015-07-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
It's a known issue -- which I thought was fixed recently. I would have responded sooner, but I couldn't remember where website bugs are to be reported and figured someone would chime in with the link. I *don't* think it's bugs.python.org, though I could be wrong. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Tighten-up code in the set iterator to use an entry pointer rather than

2015-07-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
. Might a segfault provide enough output to debug? Skip ___ 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] Is it a Python bug that the main thread of a process created in a daemon thread is a daemon itself?

2015-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
*. All resources of the parent are inherited by the child process. *Note that safely forking a multithreaded process is problematic*. So, even if you get past this particular problem, the conventional wisdom is, don't do that. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] RM for 3.6?

2015-06-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote: I thought I was volunteering to get a pony. I was misinformed. Ned, Not to worry. I'm sure that by the time 3.6a0 is due, the PSF will be able to scrape together the funds for a pony, perhaps even one with super powers: Skip

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

2015-05-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
to gain some performance in a bugfix release. One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this retort: Although practicality beats purity, but I won't. :-) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

2015-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
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[Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

2015-05-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
tests which listen for network connections should also mention that, at least on Macs? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 492: What is the real goal?

2015-04-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
science graduates will be familiar with the textbook definition. If your use of coroutine matches the textbook definition of the term, I think you should continue to use it instead of inventing new names which will just confuse people new to Python. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] typeshed for 3rd party packages

2015-04-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
that the stub no longer matches the version of yourmod I am using, and must ignore it. Does that suggest the typeshed needs some sort of structure which allows all versions of stubs for the same package to be gathered together? My apologies if I'm following along way behind the curve. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Tunning binary insertion sort algorithm in Timsort.

2015-03-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
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Re: [Python-Dev] Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?

2015-01-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
was going to attempt a port of Python to a new platform, I would still choose to port Python 3. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

[Python-Dev] Undefined reference to dlopen (was: Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?)

2015-01-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
here (as well as pydoc) are all pure Python modules. I don't think any of them would have directly triggered a dlopen error. Do you have a traceback? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Any grammar experts?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: So which is it? Precisely... S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] Pydoc Replacement for Python's help()?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
help() all the time from the interpreter prompt and never get a GUI. IMO you should be able to strip out the gui() function (or even just comment out the Tkinter import). Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Any grammar experts?

2015-01-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
, the status quo) to fly by silently, but start to chirp when people use the facility in all its baroque glory as enabled by the PEP. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] How do I ensure that my code is being executed?

2015-01-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
for your question? One last thing. Are you working on Python itself (python-dev@python.org is the right place to ask questions) or using Python to develop an application (python-dev is not the right place, try python-l...@python.org)? Skip ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
to accept a precision (defaulting to 6), or add %N in a manner similar (or identical) to Ruby's semantics. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
While he doesn't explicitly say so, I got the distinct impression reading his recent blog post that he supports one source, not forked sources. In the absence to evidence to the contrary, I think of Brett as the most expert developer in the porting space. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

2014-12-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Marko Rauhamaa ma...@pacujo.net wrote: How about run 3to2 at installation time? In theory, yes, but that's not a fork either. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
around. It seems like %N isn't used. Skip ___ 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] datetime nanosecond support (ctd?)

2014-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
generated by other applications which has nanosecond resolution. Unless those values are stored as epoch seconds, you're going to need to parse them. It's not clear to me why you'd give people only half the solution they need. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

2014-11-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
the solutions I find (which often turn out to be on stackoverflow). Skip ___ 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] Dinamically set __call__ method

2014-11-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
with 3.4. My guess is this causes the different behavior between versions. You might also find it useful to print A.__call__ and print a.__call__ with different class statements. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] performance delta with .py presence v.s. only pyc on python 2.7.x?

2014-10-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
possibilities before trying the .pyc. OTOH, if the .py is present, it might be found early in the search, then as an optimization, look for a .pyc file it can use rather than compiling the .py file. How long is sys.path? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing 2.7.x

2014-10-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
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Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (3.4): Issue #22295: Adopt 'python -m pip' as the preferred invocation

2014-09-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
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Re: [Python-Dev] cpython (3.4): Issue #22295: Adopt 'python -m pip' as the preferred invocation

2014-09-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
, it doesn't appear this will be resolved until 1.7 at the earliest. Skip ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] https:bugs.python.org -- Untrusted Connection (Firefox)

2014-09-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
I got the same in Chrome on my Mac. Skip On Sep 1, 2014 8:00 PM, John Wong gokoproj...@gmail.com wrote: As of today I still am getting untrusted cert thought I would re-ping to see if there is an ETA. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 8/21/2014 7:25

Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
the --upgrade flag it tries to uninstall the global version. Skip ___ 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] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
be great if there was a way for it to tell me where on my system it found outdated package X. The --verbose flag tells me all sorts of other stuff I'm not really interested in, but not the installed location of the outdated package. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] pip enhancement

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Ian Cordasco graffatcolmin...@gmail.com wrote: Also, isn't this discussion better suited for Distutils-SIG? I started up a thread there. I'd post an archive link, but it hasn't yet turned up in the distutils-sig archive. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Reviving restricted mode?

2014-08-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:42 PM, matsjoyce matsjo...@gmail.com wrote: There maybe some holes in my approach, but I can't find them. There's the rub. Given time, I suspect someone will discover a hole or two. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Bluetooth 4.0 support in socket module

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Tim Tisdall tisd...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some online documentation with guidelines on how to contribute? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=contribute+to+python Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] Bluetooth 4.0 support in socket module

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
a beer. Skip ___ 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] Python Job Board

2014-07-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
. A better place to comment about the job board (and perhaps volunteer to help with the current effort) is j...@python.org. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

2014-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Aye, in this case, I'm in the officially deprecate the feature camp. Definitely preferable to the suggestion to remove the configure flag. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Fix Unicode-disabled build of Python 2.7

2014-06-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
I can't see any reason to make a backwards-incompatible change to Python 2 to only support Unicode. You're bound to break somebody's setup. Wouldn't it be better to fix bugs as Serhiy has done? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Criticism of execfile() removal in Python3

2014-06-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
to check around to see how other people use interactive mode. Skip ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
for this. If failing, such buildbots wouldn't block a release, but would still provide tools for people to track down the source of breakage. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Brett Cannon bcan...@gmail.com wrote: I view stable buildbots as staying up and testing critical platforms. Would supported and unsupported (or critical and optional?) make more sense? Unstable suggests broken to me, not we don't really care about these. S

Re: [Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

2014-05-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
just the unstable category. What do those two categories have to do with supported and unsupported? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

2014-05-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
I wonder if one or more people who maintain unofficial forks on minority platforms (OS/2, VMS, etc) could create an informational PEP about the process (benefits and pitfalls) of that kind of effort? Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Fix broken link to Skip's optimizer paper, update bug link

2014-05-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
? Zach, That's as a good a link as I know of. (Lot of water under the bridge since then!) Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

Re: [Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

2014-04-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
that sleeping dog lie. I have better things to do with my life. New stuff I write tends to be much more pep8-ish. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

2014-04-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
more work to read mixedCase names. Given Guido's background, I suspect these studies might have been done at CWI in the context of the ABC language. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

[Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

2014-04-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
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Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

2014-04-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
much. Skip ___ 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] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

2014-04-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink If you blink, you've missed Python 2.7 startup on a relatively modern machine. wink Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup

2014-04-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
python -c 'import tradelink.snake.v11_2 ; raise SystemExit' real 0m0.671s user 0m0.405s sys 0m0.044s % time python -c 'raise SystemExit' real 0m0.022s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.009s Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] Python 4?

2014-04-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
, actually, a Phython3) directory. WTH is Python 4? Skip -- Forwarded message -- From: C. Reese care...@vcu.org Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:03 AM Subject: Updated phython To: webmas...@python.org just updated to Python 4. (installed to C: drive) ... now i notice there are separate

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4?

2014-04-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
that an April Fool's prank went so far as to put a tarted up version of Python 3.x out in the wild where unsuspecting folks would find and install it. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative timedelta strings

2014-04-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
, you wind up with situations where shorter months can be skipped altogether. Is there a way to talk in terms of months but not have short months get skipped? Thx, Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

[Python-Dev] ISO 8601 durations and datetime.timedelta

2014-03-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
years and months args in their constructors. This is why I said this deserved a separate topic. Probably on python-ideas. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative timedelta strings

2014-03-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
sees fit. That would support the ISO 8601 syntax (*), and anything else the programmer things is better than the status quo. Skip (*) As an aside (that is, this belongs in a separate thread if you want to discuss it), in my opinion, attempting to support ISO 8601 formatting is pointless without

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

2014-03-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
this thing (whatever it turns out to be) 2.8? Is this pledge and its rationale written down in a PEP somewhere, so I can study the reasons behind what appears at this point to be blind adherence? Did someone administer a blood oath at a recent PyCon? Pledge-be-damned-ly y'rs, Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

2014-03-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
will have to make some changes to take advantage of these updated security bits. Is there some path forward that really makes everything a drop-in improvement, requiring no change to application code, and breaking nothing that already works? Skip ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 466: Proposed policy change for handling network security enhancements

2014-03-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
what you call it. Why not be transparent about it? Skip ___ 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] Start writing inlines rather than macros?

2014-02-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
conditions they might not? It might still be necessary to maintain macros for those platforms. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Start writing inlines rather than macros?

2014-02-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Well, if we must maintain macros, let's maintain them everywhere and avoid the burden of two different implementations for the same thing. Would it be possible to generate the macro versions from the inline/static

Re: [Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

2014-01-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
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Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed: The Great Argument Clinic Conversion Derby

2014-01-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
derby because of that. My first thought was that this exercise falls into the realm of fixing things which aren't broken. Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Python-Dev] Sort error in Misc/ACKS

2013-12-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
We could always run random.shuffle() on the current list so new additions don't look out of place ;) Wouldn't that bloat the repository with diffs and make merges more difficult? wink Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https

Re: [Python-Dev] A small patch.

2013-11-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
a value of 2013. Just knowing it's out of range isn't really enough. Skip ___ 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

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