Re: [Python-Dev] What's New in 2.6 link wasn't what I expected

2008-09-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else. Martin How so? The first major heading in that file reads Seems more like the Misc/NEWS file to me. Correct. I was expecting Andrew's What's New document Why that? The

[Python-Dev] Python documentation

2008-09-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin points out that in the past, as part of the release process, we've built separate downloadable documentation. Do we still want to do that for Python 2.6 and 3.0, and if so, how do we go about doing that? I have this feeling that

Re: [Python-Dev] ANNOUNCE: CapPython, an object-capability subset of Python

2008-09-19 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
PyPy offers sandboxing interpreter without compromising language features itself. Here are docs: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/sandbox.html Also, are you aware of directory Lib/test/crashers (in python's svn) which contains some possible ways to segfault cpython? (which can lead to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python documentation

2008-09-19 Thread Fred Drake
On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: Martin points out that in the past, as part of the release process, we've built separate downloadable documentation. Do we still want to do that for Python 2.6 and 3.0, ...? Yes, I think so. The downloads are very useful for people who

Re: [Python-Dev] Python documentation

2008-09-19 Thread Raymond
+1. I find the offline versions to be vital. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin points out that in the past, as part of the release process, we've built separate downloadable

[Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/ is this fine? or shall I fill the bug? (the reason to ask is because a) django is relying on this b) pypy implements it differently) cheers, fijal

Re: [Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Foord
Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/ is this fine? It looks right to me. :-) In the first case the NameError is caught by the except and not re-raised (but still enters the finally after

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2008-09-19 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/12/08 - 09/19/08) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 2035 open (+36) / 13696 closed (+24) / 15731 total (+60) Open issues with patches: 652

Re: [Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Alexander Shigin
В Птн, 19/09/2008 в 17:43 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski пишет: Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/ is this fine? or shall I fill the bug? (the reason to ask is because a) django is relying on this b) pypy implements

Re: [Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hello Maciej, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/ is this fine? or shall I fill the bug? (the reason to ask is because a) django is relying on this b) pypy implements it differently) Note

[Python-Dev] Unbound methods (was: ANNOUNCE: CapPython...)

2008-09-19 Thread Mark Seaborn
Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Mark Seaborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. The renaming of im_self and im_func is good. The removal of unbound methods is a *big* problem [1]. Regards, Mark [1]

[Python-Dev] Code coverage

2008-09-19 Thread Walter Dörwald
Hello all! The code coverage site at http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ was broken for the last few months. It's fixed again now and runs the test suite once per day with regrtest.py -T -N -uurlfetch,largefile,network,decimal Servus, Walter ___

Re: [Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:26:05 +0200, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Maciej, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/ is this fine? or shall I fill the bug? (the reason to ask

Re: [Python-Dev] What this code should do?

2008-09-19 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:26:05 +0200, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Maciej, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hello, I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets:

Re: [Python-Dev] Code coverage

2008-09-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Walter Dörwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! The code coverage site at http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ was broken for the last few months. It's fixed again now and runs the test suite once per day with regrtest.py -T -N

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb tests disabled by default

2008-09-19 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett Cannon wrote: Well, 'time' says the test takes 16.09 sec user and 16.09 sec system on my MacBook, but a total execution time of almost 8 *minutes*. That is too long to be on by default. Uh... That is very strange. Under Solaris 10:

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb tests disabled by default

2008-09-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Jesus Cea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett Cannon wrote: Well, 'time' says the test takes 16.09 sec user and 16.09 sec system on my MacBook, but a total execution time of almost 8 *minutes*. That is too long to be