Re: [Python-Dev] Soliciting comments on the future of the cmdmodule (bpo-33233)

2018-04-06 Thread Steve Dower
Better to deprecate it before it becomes broken, in my opinion. Having someone willing and able to review and merge changes is the best criteria for whether a module is still supported or not. Top-posted from my Windows phone From: Raymond Hettinger Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 18:55 To: Ned Dei

Re: [Python-Dev] Soliciting comments on the future of the cmd module (bpo-33233)

2018-04-06 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> On Apr 6, 2018, at 3:02 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > > We could be even bolder and officially deprecate "cmd" and consider closing > open enhancement issues for it on b.p.o." FWIW, the pdb module depends on the cmd module. Also, I still teach people how to use cmd and I think it still serves a u

Re: [Python-Dev] Soliciting comments on the future of the cmd module (bpo-33233)

2018-04-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:02:18PM -0400, Ned Deily wrote: > I suggest we consider at a minimum adding a "See also:" note > referencing cmd2 to the cmd documentation in the Standard Library > document, similar to what we do for the third-party "requests" module > in the "urllib.request" documen

[Python-Dev] Soliciting comments on the future of the cmd module (bpo-33233)

2018-04-06 Thread Ned Deily
In https://bugs.python.org/issue33233, I have proposed considering deprecation for the cmd module: "The cmd module in the standard library has languished for many years. In the mean time, third-party replacements for it have arisen. Perhaps the most popular is cmd2 which seems to be actively

Re: [Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

2018-04-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:17:58 -0400 Ned Deily wrote: > On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:06, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > [...] > > https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 > > [...] > > Any chance of this getting into 3.7 or will a fix have to wait for 3.8 > > at this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.)

Re: [Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

2018-04-06 Thread Ned Deily
On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:06, Skip Montanaro wrote: > [...] > https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 > [...] > Any chance of this getting into 3.7 or will a fix have to wait for 3.8 > at this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.) It seems like most commenters on the issue consider the behavi

[Python-Dev] Error embedding python

2018-04-06 Thread Chris Bryan
Hello list, I am embedding a python 3.6 environment in another executable, which is compiling and executing ok. However I get an error on Windows when I try to import any module except sys: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "args", line 1, in   File "", line 971, in _find_and_load  

Re: [Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-06 Thread Berker Peksağ
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Anthony Flury via Python-Dev wrote: > All, > > The three pull requests are : > > Python 2.7 - doc string fix : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6015 > > Python 3.8 - documentation fix : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5982 Hi Anthony, I've just review

Re: [Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-06 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
06.04.18 19:32, Anthony Flury via Python-Dev пише: The three pull requests are : Python 2.7 - doc string fix : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6015 There are several open issues for "sequence" vs "iterable" in docstrings and documentation for different functions. It would be worth to m

Re: [Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-06 Thread Anthony Flury via Python-Dev
All, The three pull requests are : Python 2.7 - doc string fix : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6015 Python 3.8 - documentation fix : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5982 Python 3.8 - Small bug fix on unittest.mock.mock_open : https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5974 The P

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2018-04-06 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2018-03-30 - 2018-04-06) Python tracker at https://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: open6568 (+25) closed 38420 (+27) total 44988 (+52) Open issues wi

[Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

2018-04-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
In Python 2 you can open the standard output and error streams in append mode, despite the fact that they aren't technically seekable. This changed somewhere along the way in (I think) io.open. There's an open bug report about this: https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 I just stumbled on it porting

Re: [Python-Dev] Timeline for Pull request reviews in 3.8

2018-04-06 Thread Eric V. Smith
Hi, Anthony. On 4/5/2018 10:57 PM, Anthony Flury via Python-Dev wrote: Can anyone enlighten me on what the expected time-line is for reviewing pull requests made on 3.8. I can give you the timeline for releases. Unfortunately, volunteer time is short for reviews. I made a few simple fixes i