Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: quote the type name for improved readability

2011-11-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel, 07.11.2011 18:46: Éric Araujo, 07.11.2011 18:24: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bbc929bc2224 user: Philip Jenveypjen...@underboss.org summary: quote the type name for improved readability files: Python/bltinmodule.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: quote the type name for improved readability

2011-11-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 09.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Stefan Behnel: Stefan Behnel, 07.11.2011 18:46: Éric Araujo, 07.11.2011 18:24: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bbc929bc2224 user: Philip Jenveypjen...@underboss.org summary: quote the type name for improved readability files: Python/bltinmodule.c | 2 +- 1

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: quote the type name for improved readability

2011-11-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:44:50 +0100 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Am 09.11.2011 09:25, schrieb Stefan Behnel: Stefan Behnel, 07.11.2011 18:46: Éric Araujo, 07.11.2011 18:24: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bbc929bc2224 user: Philip Jenveypjen...@underboss.org summary:

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Change decoders to use Unicode API instead of Py_UNICODE.

2011-11-09 Thread Victor Stinner
First of all, thanks for having upgraded this huge part (codecs) to the new Unicode API! +static int +unicode_widen(PyObject **p_unicode, int maxchar) +{ +PyObject *result; +assert(PyUnicode_IS_READY(*p_unicode)); +if (maxchar = PyUnicode_MAX_CHAR_VALUE(*p_unicode)) +

[Python-Dev] unicode_internal codec and the PEP 393

2011-11-09 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, The unicode_internal decoder doesn't decode surrogate pairs and so test_unicode.UnicodeTest.test_codecs() is failing on Windows (16-bit wchar_t). I don't know if this codec is still revelant with the PEP 393 because the internal representation is now depending on the maximum character

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: quote the type name for improved readability

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:44:50 +0100 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I recommend reverting the change. I fail to see why quoting the name improves readability. It does if the name is Throatwobbler Mangrove.

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
Nick Coghlan wrote: In reviewing Zbyszek's doc updates and comparing them against the Grammar, I discovered a gratuitous change in the implementation: it allows a bare (i.e. no parentheses) 'yield from' as an argument to a function. I'll add a new test to ensure yield from x requires

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Petri Lehtinen
Terry Reedy wrote: On 11/8/2011 10:49 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When merging from 3.2 to 3.3 Misc/NEWS always conflicts (lately). Instead of copypaste the test manually between versions, has anybody a better workflow?. If a bug is fixed in

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: I'll add a new test to ensure yield from x requires parentheses whenever yield x requires them (and fix the Grammar file on the implementation branch accordingly). Wait a minute, there's

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:51:44 -0500 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 11/8/2011 10:49 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When merging from 3.2 to 3.3 Misc/NEWS always conflicts (lately). Instead of copypaste the test manually between versions, has

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: If a bug is fixed in 3.2.latest, then it will not be new in 3.3.0, so perhaps it should not be added there. NEWS could just refer back to previous sections. Then 3.3.0 News would only be new features and the occasional

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Guido van Rossum
I see this as inevitable. By the time the parser sees 'yield' it has made its choices; the 'from' keyword cannot modify that. So whenever yield expr must be parenthesized, yield from expr must too. (And yes, there are parsing systems that don't have this restriction. But Python's does and we like

[Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Thus I propose the following. If there are no objections wink, I'll commit this taking the next available number. Cheers, -Barry PEP: 405 Title: Python 2.8 Release Schedule

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2011/11/9 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org: I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here.  Thus I propose the following.  If there are no objections wink, I'll commit this taking the next available number. Cheers, -Barry

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hi, 2011/11/9 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Do we need to designate a release manager? -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Mercredi 9 Novembre 2011 17:18:45 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc a écrit : Hi, 2011/11/9 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Do we need to designate a release manager?

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 09, 2011, at 05:18 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: 2011/11/9 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Do we need to designate a release manager? I'd happily serve as the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Ethan Furman
Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2011/11/9 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org: I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Thus I propose the following. If there are no objections wink, I'll commit this taking the next available

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 09, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: I don't know why this PEP is necessary, but I think a more appropriate title would be 2.x is in maintenance only mode. Okay, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but the practical reason is that I want it to be the top hit when someone searches

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/9/2011 6:28 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: So bug fixes should be recorded in both places - the 3.3a1 notes record the deltas against 3.2.0, not against whatever the latest release of 3.2 happens to be when 3.3 is released. OK, I see that now. Idea 2: If What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1? had

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/9/2011 11:14 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.2/ (and similar) already say: The Python 2.7 series is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before 2.x moves into an

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:14, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here. Thus I propose the following. If there are no objections wink, I'll commit this taking the next available

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:14, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: I think we should have an official pronouncement about Python 2.8, and PEPs are as official as it gets 'round here.  Thus I propose the following.  If there are no objections wink, I'll commit this taking the next available

Re: [Python-Dev] unicode_internal codec and the PEP 393

2011-11-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
The unicode_internal decoder doesn't decode surrogate pairs and so test_unicode.UnicodeTest.test_codecs() is failing on Windows (16-bit wchar_t). I don't know if this codec is still revelant with the PEP 393 because the internal representation is now depending on the maximum character

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: quote the type name for improved readability

2011-11-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I recommend reverting the change. I fail to see why quoting the name improves readability. It does if the name is Throatwobbler Mangrove. But that can't be - the type name ought to be an identifier, so it can't have spaces. It might be possible to create deliberately confusing error

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread John O'Connor
+1 for Cardinal Biggles as release manager. +1 ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 09, 2011, at 08:58 PM, Paul Moore wrote: I see why people feel that something more precise and/or formal would get the message across better, but the mildly tongue-in-cheek tone isn't really inappropriate for a language named after Monty Python :-) *Thank you* :) +1 for Cardinal Biggles

Re: [Python-Dev] unicode_internal codec and the PEP 393

2011-11-09 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mercredi 9 novembre 2011 22:03:52, vous avez écrit : Should we: * Drop this codec (public and documented, but I don't know if it is used) * Use wchar_t* (Py_UNICODE*) to provide a result similar to Python 3.2, and so fix the decoder to handle surrogate pairs * Use the

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 11/9/2011 6:28 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: So bug fixes should be recorded in both places - the 3.3a1 notes record the deltas against 3.2.0, not against whatever the latest release of 3.2 happens to be when 3.3 is released.

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
Guido van Rossum wrote: I see this as inevitable. By the time the parser sees 'yield' it has made its choices; the 'from' keyword cannot modify that. So whenever yield expr must be parenthesized, yield from expr must too. This is patently untrue, because by version of the grammar allows

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/11 19:51, Terry Reedy wrote: If a bug is fixed in 3.2.latest, then it will not be new in 3.3.0, so perhaps it should not be added there. NEWS could just refer back to previous sections. Then 3.3.0 News would only be new features and the

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/11 12:28, Nick Coghlan wrote: The 3.2.x maintenance release sections are not present in the 3.3 NEWS file - it jumps straight from 3.2 to 3.3a1. So bug fixes should be recorded in both places - the 3.3a1 notes record the deltas against

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:21:35 +0100 Jesus Cea j...@jcea.es wrote: On 08/11/11 19:51, Terry Reedy wrote: If a bug is fixed in 3.2.latest, then it will not be new in 3.3.0, so perhaps it should not be added there. NEWS could just refer back to previous sections. Then 3.3.0 News would only be

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Tim Delaney
On 10 November 2011 09:13, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: This is patently untrue, because by version of the grammar allows 'f(yield from x)', while disallowing 'f(yield x)'. I made a conscious decision to do that, and I'm a bit alarmed at this decision being overridden at the

Re: [Python-Dev] unicode_internal codec and the PEP 393

2011-11-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
After a quick search on Google codesearch (before it disappears!), I don't think that encoding a Unicode string to its internal PEP-393 representation would satisfy any program. It looks like wchar_t* is a better candidate. Ok. Making it Py_UNICODE, documenting that, and deprecating the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: +1 for Cardinal Biggles as release manager. Now you need to persuade Vinay to let you trade PEP numbers with the pyvenv PEP. Having an unrelease schedule as PEP 404 is too good an opportunity to pass up :) Getting boring for a

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Guido van Rossum wrote: I see this as inevitable. By the time the parser sees 'yield' it has made its choices; the 'from' keyword cannot modify that. So whenever yield expr must be parenthesized, yield from expr

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 10, 2011, at 08:58 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Now you need to persuade Vinay to let you trade PEP numbers with the pyvenv PEP. Having an unrelease schedule as PEP 404 is too good an opportunity to pass up :) Brilliant suggestion! Vinay? :) Getting boring for a moment, I suggest including

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
On 10/11/11 05:18, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: Do we need to designate a release manager? I nominate John Cleese. Although he's undoubtedly a busy man, this shouldn't take up too much of his time. -- Greg ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 405 (proposed): Python 2.8 Release Schedule

2011-11-09 Thread Tim Delaney
On 10 November 2011 11:05, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Nov 10, 2011, at 08:58 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Now you need to persuade Vinay to let you trade PEP numbers with the pyvenv PEP. Having an unrelease schedule as PEP 404 is too good an opportunity to pass up :) Brilliant

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
On 10/11/11 12:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: Actually it is valid, meaning yield (expr, expr) in any context where yield expr is valid Hmmm, it seems you're right. I was testing it using my patched yield-from version of Python, where it has apparently become a syntax error. I didn't mean to

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
On 10/11/11 11:43, Tim Delaney wrote: We have precedent for being more restrictive initially, and relaxing those restrictions later. I suggest that the more restrictive implementation go in now so that people can start playing with it. If the discussion comes to a consensus on more relaxed

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: FYI, Twisted has chosen a totally different approach: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ReviewProcess#Newsfiles “[...] If we just let each author add to the NEWS files on every commit, though, we would run into lots

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: On 10/11/11 11:43, Tim Delaney wrote: We have precedent for being more restrictive initially, and relaxing those restrictions later. I suggest that the more restrictive implementation go in now so that people

Re: [Python-Dev] [SPAM: 3.000] [issue11682] PEP 380 reference implementation for 3.3

2011-11-09 Thread Greg Ewing
On 10/11/11 14:50, Nick Coghlan wrote: I'd actually be amenable to making it legal to omit the extra parentheses for both yield yield from in the single argument case where there's no ambiguity... The way your patch tried to do it also allowed f(yield from x, 1) which strikes me as being far

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jesus Cea writes: A bit of discipline and, voila, automatic flawless merges! :-) Doesn't work that way, sorry. The discipline required is isomorphic to that required by threaded programs. See multiple threads on python-ideas for why that is less than automatic or flawless. :-) Antoine's

Re: [Python-Dev] Merging 3.2 to 3.3 is messy because Misc/NEWS

2011-11-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:49:48 +0900 Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: A bit of discipline and, voila, automatic flawless merges! :-) Doesn't work that way, sorry. The discipline required is isomorphic to that required by threaded programs. See multiple threads on python-ideas