Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6.2

2009-04-17 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 16 Apr, 2009, at 20:58, Russell Owen wrote: I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works, except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where one would expect). That's very string. I had

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

2009-04-17 Thread glyph
On 04:56 am, p...@telecommunity.com wrote: At 03:58 AM 4/17/2009 +, gl...@divmod.com wrote: Just as a use-case: would the Java com.* namespace be an example of a pure package with no base? i.e. lots of projects are in it, but no project owns it? Er, I suppose. I was thinking more of

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-04-16 21:55, s...@pobox.com wrote: Jess If, on the other hand, one of the committers wants to toss this in Jess at some point, whether now or 3 versions down the road, the patch Jess is up at bugs.python.org (and I'm happy to make any suggested Jess

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090417 04:55], s...@pobox.com (s...@pobox.com) wrote: Again, I think it needs to bake a bit. I understand the desire and need for doing date arithmetic with months. Python is mature enough though that I don't think you can just toss this in. It should be available as a module outside

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Jess Austin jess.austin at gmail.com writes: I have worked in utility/telecom billing, and needed to examine large numbers of invoice dates, fulfillment dates, disconnection dates, payment dates, collection event dates, etc. There would often be particular rules for the relationships among

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6.2

2009-04-17 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org (BW) wrote: BW On behalf of the Python community, I'm happy to announce the availability BW of Python 2.6.2. This is the latest production-ready version in the BW Python 2.6 series. Dozens of issues have been fixed since Python 2.6.1 BW was released back in

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread skip
2rd of March on leap years, ^^^ The turd of March? Yeah, it's from a little known Shakespearean play about a benevolent dictator, Guidius van Rossumus. The name of the play escapes me at the moment, but there's this critical scene where the BDFL is in mortal danger because of

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 69, Issue 143

2009-04-17 Thread Scott David Daniels
Greg Ewing wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: it should be obvious in the same way that string concatenation is different from numerical addition: 1 + 2 = 2 + 1 '1' + '2' != '2' + '1' However, the proposed arithmetic isn't just non- commutative, it's non-associative, which is a much rarer and

Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 69, Issue 143

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org wrote: Non-associativity is what makes for floating point headaches. To my knowledge, floating point is at least commutative. Well, mostly. :-) from decimal import Decimal x, y = Decimal('NaN123'), Decimal('-NaN456')

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2009-04-17 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (04/10/09 - 04/17/09) 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. open (+37) / 15383 closed (+12) / 17605 total (+49) Open issues with patches: 852

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6.2

2009-04-17 Thread Russell Owen
On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 16 Apr, 2009, at 20:58, Russell Owen wrote: I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works, except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where

[Python-Dev] Experimental and Test Tracker instances live

2009-04-17 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Hi, As discussed before, I have put two mock Python Tracker instances online. The Test[1] instance follows bugs.python.org code, so we can test bugfixes and procedures without breaking the real tracker. The Experimental[2] one, aka the cool instance, is where new features are showcased.

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them? Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month deltas according to the proposal. I suspect many other programmers have too. Writing a month add

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

2009-04-17 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, BJ?rn Lindqvist wrote: It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them? Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month deltas according to the proposal. I suspect many

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6.2

2009-04-17 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article nad-304e10.20284516042...@news.gmane.org, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote: In article dd982bd4-02ab-4395-afee-cd3d0eeb7...@u.washington.edu, Russell Owen ro...@u.washington.edu wrote: I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works, except it still uses Apple's