Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

2007-03-18 Thread Georg Brandl
Greg Ewing schrieb: > I've just discovered the hard way that NamedTemporaryFile > automatically deletes the file when you close it. That > doesn't seem very useful to me, since surely the reason > you're using NamedTemporaryFile instead of TemporaryFile > is that you want to do something else with

Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

2007-03-18 Thread Damien Miller
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Greg Ewing wrote: > I've just discovered the hard way that NamedTemporaryFile > automatically deletes the file when you close it. That > doesn't seem very useful to me, since surely the reason > you're using NamedTemporaryFile instead of TemporaryFile > is that you want to do

Re: [Python-Dev] Encouraging developers

2007-03-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tony Meyer schrieb: > ISTM that there is value in submitting a patch (including tests and > documentation, and making appropriate comment in related patches), even > if that is all that is done (i.e. no follow-up). That's certainly, absolutely, true. It's also true that there are very many kind

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

2007-03-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
Now that this thread has celebrated its 100th message, I feel compelled to say something. My first observation is that this is a tempest in a teacup. My second observation is that there seems to have been a lack of people skills all around. That is perhaps to expect in a community of geeks, but g

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

2007-03-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum schrieb: > And Martin, if I decide that the change should be > rolled back, will you be okay with that? Certainly. I would wish somebody contributed a documentation patch pointing out that specific detail in the documentation (and in the process making the documentation match the

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

2007-03-18 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Guido van Rossum wrote: > If you want, I can make a decision. But I will only do that if I hear > from both sides of the debate that they are willing to accept my > choice even if it favors the other party. Can I hear agreement to > that? >From me - definitely. I put my position forward (anti th

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

2007-03-18 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: >> From me - definitely. Damned Outlook, reformatting sent emails! That statement was obviously from me ... Tim Delaney ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev U

Re: [Python-Dev] Rewrite of cmath module?

2007-03-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Mark Dickinson] > The current cmath module has some significant numerical problems, > particularly in the inverse trig and inverse hyperbolic trig > functions. IIRC, cmath was essentially whipped up over a weekend by a scientist, transcribing formulas from a math reference. Such an approach is b

Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

2007-03-18 Thread Greg Ewing
Damien Miller wrote: > That annoyed me too, so I submitted a patch[1] that was recently > committed. That looks good. Seems to me it should really be the default behaviour, but I suppose that would break code that was relying on the automatic deletion. -- Greg ___

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

2007-03-18 Thread glyph
On 18 Mar, 07:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My second observation is that there seems to have been a lack of people skills all around. That is perhaps to expect in a community of geeks, but given the length of the previous thread on this topic (before Martin checked it in) I think all the parti