Re: [Python-Dev] Code cleanups in stable branches?

2011-11-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: > Nick and Brett share the opinion that some code cleanups can be > considered bugfixes, whereas MvL, Barry and Raymond defend that we never > know what can get broken and it’s not worth risking it. > > I have added a comment on #13283 (removal of

Re: [Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions

2011-11-04 Thread PJ Eby
Urgh. I guess that was already answered. Guess this'll teach me not to reply to a thread before waiting for ALL the messages to download over a low-bandwidth connection... (am on the road at the moment and catching up on stuff in spare cycles - sorry for the noise) On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:24

Re: [Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions

2011-11-04 Thread PJ Eby
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 30 October 2011 18:04, Ned Deily wrote: > > Has anyone analyzed the current packages on PyPI to see how many provide > > binary distributions and in what format? > > A very quick and dirty check: > > dmg: 5 > rpm: 12 > msi: 23 > dumb: 132 >

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode exception indexing

2011-11-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/4/2011 3:39 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Is it worth the hassle? We can just port our existing error handlers, and I guess the few third-party error handlers written in C (if any) can bear the transition. That was my question exactly. As the author of PEP 393, I was leaning towards full b

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Inline the advisory text on how to use the shelve module.

2011-11-04 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 11/4/2011 4:25 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote: > On 04/11/2011 22.21, Eric V. Smith wrote: >> On 11/4/2011 4:08 PM, raymond.hettinger wrote: >> >>> - .. note:: >>> + Like file objects, shelve objects should closed explicitly to assure >>> + that the peristent data is flushed to disk. >> Missing "b

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Inline the advisory text on how to use the shelve module.

2011-11-04 Thread Ezio Melotti
On 04/11/2011 22.21, Eric V. Smith wrote: On 11/4/2011 4:08 PM, raymond.hettinger wrote: - .. note:: + Like file objects, shelve objects should closed explicitly to assure + that the peristent data is flushed to disk. Missing "be" there, I think: "should be closed". Eric. And on the n

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Inline the advisory text on how to use the shelve module.

2011-11-04 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 11/4/2011 4:08 PM, raymond.hettinger wrote: > - .. note:: > + Like file objects, shelve objects should closed explicitly to assure > + that the peristent data is flushed to disk. Missing "be" there, I think: "should be closed". Eric. ___ Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Port code page codec to Unicode API.

2011-11-04 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 4 novembre 2011 18:23:26, martin.v.loewis a écrit : > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9191f804d376 > changeset: 73353:9191f804d376 > parent: 73351:2bec7c452b39 > user:Martin v. Löwis > date:Fri Nov 04 18:23:06 2011 +0100 > summary: > Port code page codec to Un

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2011-11-04 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2011-10-28 - 2011-11-04) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open3118 (+10) closed 22006 (+45) total 25124 (+55) Open issues wit

Re: [Python-Dev] Code cleanups in stable branches?

2011-11-04 Thread Éric Araujo
Nick and Brett share the opinion that some code cleanups can be considered bugfixes, whereas MvL, Barry and Raymond defend that we never know what can get broken and it’s not worth risking it. I have added a comment on #13283 (removal of two unused variable in locale.py) to restate this policy, bu

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode exception indexing

2011-11-04 Thread Stefan Behnel
"Martin v. Löwis", 04.11.2011 08:39: Is it worth the hassle? We can just port our existing error handlers, and I guess the few third-party error handlers written in C (if any) can bear the transition. That was my question exactly. As the author of PEP 393, I was leaning towards full backwards c

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode exception indexing

2011-11-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Is it worth the hassle? We can just port our existing error handlers, > and I guess the few third-party error handlers written in C (if any) > can bear the transition. That was my question exactly. As the author of PEP 393, I was leaning towards full backwards compatibility, but you, Victor, and