Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Quentin Gallet-Gilles
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Christian Heimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: What's wrong with the rfe type? Why does it have to be a keyword? For one it's the name. Personally I didn't know the meaning of RFE until I googled it. I agree, the name is a bit confusing

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Problem is, we don't have an 'rfe' keyword anymore :) Shall we grow one again? What's wrong with the rfe type? Why does it have to be a keyword? It must have changed since I last looked at a feature request on the tracker - using a type rather than keyword is fine by

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-20 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 20 Feb, 06:08, Bill Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest using socket.dup(sslsock) to simply create a non-encrypted copy of the socket, and switch to using that copy. There's no way to unwrap an SSLSocket. It does not seem to work: File C:\python26\lib\ssl.py, line 115, in read

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Andrew MacIntyre wrote: M.-A. Lemburg wrote: If we're down to voting, here's my vote: +1 on removing the freelists from ints and floats, but not the small int sharing optimization +1 on focusing on improving pymalloc to handle int and float object allocations even better -1 on

Re: [Python-Dev] int/float freelists vs pymalloc

2008-02-20 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: I've now written up my testing and attached the write-up to issue 2039 (http://bugs.python.org/issue2039). Nice work! Too often we (generic we) don't try to re-simplify code. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *

[Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
We have a bug day this Saturday. Join us on IRC and let's see how many issues we can clear up. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay for more. There are currently 69 bugs marked as 'easy', which is probably more than enough, but if you see anything that's suitable for a new developer, please

Re: [Python-Dev] New math functions

2008-02-20 Thread Isaac Morland
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it would be useful to have a new method, float.is_integer(). This would be better than the current approach where we make the test: if x == floor(x). How common is

Re: [Python-Dev] ssl - how to switch back to a plain text socket?

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Janssen
I suggest using socket.dup(sslsock) to simply create a non-encrypted copy of the socket, and switch to using that copy. There's no way to unwrap an SSLSocket. It does not seem to work: File C:\python26\lib\ssl.py, line 115, in read return self._sslobj.read(len) ssl.SSLError:

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than request for enhancement) Also I find that, by definition, RFE and feature requests are not

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Feb 20, 2008 8:03 AM, A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a bug day this Saturday. Join us on IRC and let's see how many issues we can clear up. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay for more. There are currently 69 bugs marked as 'easy', which is probably more than

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Feb 20, 2008 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be called? (please

Re: [Python-Dev] Reminder: bug day on Saturday

2008-02-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:37:42PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: How about marking already submitted patches as easy to get help reviewing? For instance, there are a bunch of test rewrites to move old tests to unittest where it would be rather nice to have another pair of eyes make sure that the

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Raghuram Devarakonda
Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than request for enhancement) feature request? How about calling it just enhancement? ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
It must have changed since I last looked at a feature request on the tracker - using a type rather than keyword is fine by me. I'm fairly certain the rfe type was there ever since the switchover (at least that's what subversion says: the rfe type was added along with all other types in r52825,

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be called? (please try to come up with something shorter than request for enhancement)

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Guido van Rossum wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 12:39 PM, Brett Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 12:36 PM, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, the name is a bit confusing when you're not used to it. Renaming it is easy. To the native speakers reading it: What should it be

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Quentin Gallet-Gilles
I consider a feature request something like asking a factorial method ( http://bugs.python.org/issue2138). As for the RFE, (from Wikipedia) while not technically a bug, it is often tracked in the same manner as a bug as it represents a failure to meet expected behavior, or simply out of

Re: [Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

2008-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Virgil Dupras wrote: On 2/19/08, Virgil Dupras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: closed_status = db.status.lookup('chatting') Oops, replace 'chatting' with 'closed' Ok, I ran the script. It said Low activity tickets (180 days) broken down per resolution status: - no selection -547 wont fix