Re: [Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

2014-04-12 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On 11 April 2014 19:55, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, that clarification helps a lot. Does this mean that API-mode CFFI is competing with things like swig (which is not used much these days, as far as I know) and Cython (which is used a lot in the numeric community)?

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

2014-04-12 Thread Augie Fackler
On Mar 29, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:47:59 + Brett Cannon bcan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu Mar 27 2014 at 2:42:40 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Jython Report

2014-04-12 Thread Michael Foord
Below is the Jython status update report on Jython I received from Jim Baker and summarised in the Language Summit. It comes with one addendum from Frank: Jim's list is fantastic - the one bit I'd like to add to the list: Jython now supports a buffer protocol that parallels CPython's C API

Re: [Python-Dev] Language Summit notes

2014-04-12 Thread Stefan Behnel
Guido van Rossum, 10.04.2014 03:08: - Jukka Lehtosalo gave a talk and answered questions about mypy, his design and implementation of pragmatic type annotations (no new syntax required, uses Python 3 function annotations). FWIW, signature type annotations aren't enough for a static compiler

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

2014-04-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/12/2014 11:08 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: On Mar 29, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org mailto:g...@krypto.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net mailto:solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:47:59 + Brett

[Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I've accumulated a number of patches in the issue tracker that are waiting for someone to review/commit/reject them. I'm eager to make corrections as necessary, I just need someone to look the work that I've done so far: * http://bugs.python.org/issue20951 (SSLSocket.send() returns 0 for

Re: [Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/12/2014 2:58 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I've accumulated a number of patches in the issue tracker that are waiting for someone to review/commit/reject them. I'm eager to make corrections as necessary, I just need someone to look the work that I've done so far: If I did not have several

Re: [Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 12 Apr 2014 18:08, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 4/12/2014 2:58 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I realize that core developer time is scarce, so I have started to only work on patches after I've confirmed that someone is available and interested to review them. However, it would be great

[Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
I apologize for the tone. I need to go *right* now, and can't fix that. Really, I'm sympathetic and my goal is not just to defend python-dev, but to help you get the reviews your work deserves. Please read with that in mind. Steve Nikolaus Rath writes: I've accumulated a number of patches

Re: [Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2014 08:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: it's a matter of time before the contribution is integrated. Our current backlog is bad enough that many contributions are effectively wasted: they rot on the vine before they can be merged.

Re: [Python-Dev] Appeal for reviews

2014-04-12 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014, at 17:30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: I apologize for the tone. I need to go *right* now, and can't fix that. Really, I'm sympathetic and my goal is not just to defend python-dev, but to help you get the reviews your work deserves. Please read with that in mind. I don't

[Python-Dev] static typing of input arguments in signatures (was: Language Summit notes)

2014-04-12 Thread Stefan Behnel
Stefan Behnel, 12.04.2014 19:11: Guido van Rossum, 10.04.2014 03:08: - Jukka Lehtosalo gave a talk and answered questions about mypy, his design and implementation of pragmatic type annotations (no new syntax required, uses Python 3 function annotations). FWIW, signature type annotations