Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Moore
On 24 May 2010 03:58, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: I almost am Brian's hypothetical user. I've got a FuncMultiQueue that accepts callables in synchronous and asynchronous modes for future possibly-concurrent execution, just as the futures module does. I've spent a _lot_ of time

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-24 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 24.05.2010 01:51, schrieb Greg Ewing: Brian Quinlan wrote: The good news in this case is that the same API has been used successfully in Java and C++ for years so it is unlikely that any major changes will need to be made. That doesn't follow. An API that's appropriate for Java or

[Python-Dev] urllib2/urllib incompatibility?

2010-05-24 Thread Vinay Sajip
Not top-posting, but gmane seems too finicky in this area. I encountered what seems like an incompatibility between urllib and urllib2 in the way they handle file:// URLs, is this a bug? I had a look on the bug tracker and via Google to see if there were prior reports, but perhaps my search-fu

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-24 Thread Mark Summerfield
On 2010-05-23, Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/22/2010 8:06 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Brian Quinlanbr...@sweetapp.com wrote: Rename executor = executer -1 for consistency with Java. -10 for 'executer'. As far as I can find out, it is a misspelling of

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Quinlan
On May 24, 2010, at 5:16 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: On May 23, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Brian Quinlan wrote: On May 23, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: On May 22, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Brian Quinlan wrote: Jesse, the designated pronouncer for this PEP, has decided to keep discussion

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib2/urllib incompatibility?

2010-05-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 08:49:56AM +, Vinay Sajip wrote: I encountered what seems like an incompatibility between urllib and urllib2 in the way they handle file:// URLs, is this a bug? I had a look on the bug tracker s = 'file:tmp/hello.txt' f1 = urllib.urlopen(s) The actual (and

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib2/urllib incompatibility?

2010-05-24 Thread Vinay Sajip
Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com writes: The actual (and Valid) file:// url in your case is 'file:///tmp/hello.txt' And this was fine and consistent. The extra '/' is making it in invalid url in urllib2, I think that be tracked as bug at least to show a consistent behaviour. The

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cameron Simpson writes: There's a lot to be said for a robust implementation of a well defined problem. Brian's module, had it been present and presuming it robust and debugged, would have been quite welcome. That, of course, is the consensus view, both in general and with respect to this

Re: [Python-Dev] moving issues from argparse tracker to python tracker?

2010-05-24 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 23 May 2010 20:52:19 -0700 Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com wrote: I have a few feature requests, etc. for argparse, and I was planning to just copy them over to the Python bug tracker (and close them on the Google code tracker). Yes, I think this is desireable. You should also

Re: [Python-Dev] __package__ attribute

2010-05-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 14:35, Andrew Svetlov andrew.svet...@gmail.com wrote: For me it's the real bug in standard python import machinery. I don't see any backward incompatibilities. There are very hard to write any import-depended code based on decision: was module imported in absolute or