Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now.

2006-03-09 Thread Giovanni Bajo
is only waiting for people to find out and merge it into python.dll -- because it's harder to maintain it as an external .pyd with the current PCbuild. That's unreasonable IMVHO. CJK codecs *ought* to be distributed as an external .pyd. -- Giovanni Bajo

Re: [Python-Dev] .len() instead of __len__() in Py3.0

2006-03-06 Thread Giovanni Bajo
that everybody must agree with it. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ 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] from __future__ import unicode_strings?

2006-02-15 Thread Giovanni Bajo
a possibility.) We do, and it's not been removed: the -U switch. It's not in the output of python -h, though. Is it secret or what? Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt

2006-02-10 Thread Giovanni Bajo
perhaps, but there's nothing really undoable. If another change has to be pursued, it is to abstract Python from CRT altogether, or at least across boundaries. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt

2006-02-08 Thread Giovanni Bajo
. Anyway, it's just a feeling, since I still don't understand which problems you are trying to solve in the first place. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Path PEP: some comments

2006-02-05 Thread Giovanni Bajo
people to explicitally name what they're asking for (either creation_time or status_change_time). In other words, if there are mistakes in the old API, this is the time to fix them. Why should we carry them over to a new API? Giovanni Bajo ___ Python

[Python-Dev] Path PEP: some comments

2006-02-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
a replacelines() method: import fileinput for L in fileinput.FileInput(foo.txt, inplace=True, backup=True): print (modified) + L, for L in Path(foo.txt).replacelines(backup=True): print (modified) + L, Thanks for working on this! -- Giovanni Bajo

Re: [Python-Dev] Path PEP: some comments

2006-02-04 Thread Giovanni Bajo
holds different results depending on the operating system. I'm fine to have different functions available for different purposes on different platforms, I'm not fine with having a single function which does different things. Do you have any other example? Giovanni Bajo

Re: [Python-Dev] any support for a methodcaller HOF?

2006-02-03 Thread Giovanni Bajo
a syntax which is not equivalent to that of immediate execution. Unless we propose to deprecate x[1] in favor of itemgetter(1)(x)... -- Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] any support for a methodcaller HOF?

2006-02-03 Thread Giovanni Bajo
with the placeholder class. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ 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] any support for a methodcaller HOF?

2006-02-03 Thread Giovanni Bajo
me well. Instead, itemgetter() and friends are going to a different direction (the expression which is later evaluated is not clearly expressed in familiar Python terms), and that's what I find inconvenient. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

2006-01-27 Thread Giovanni Bajo
not understimate previous history. There are zillions of programs out there using Autconf and *not* being GPL. -- Giovanni Bajo ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

2006-01-27 Thread Giovanni Bajo
is that the compiler is not 'bundled' with Python, it is installed separately. Giovanni Bajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's no different. If you burn a CD containing a copy of the GCC and a copy of a commercial software you are not violating any license. If you distribute an .ISO file containing a copy

Re: [Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

2006-01-27 Thread Giovanni Bajo
violation. Giovanni Bajo ___ 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

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