Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries

2011-12-10 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 19:39 +0100, Xavier Morel wrote: On 2011-12-09, at 19:15 , Bill Janssen wrote: I use ElementTree for parsing valid XML, but minidom for producing it. Could you expand on your reasons to use minidom for producing XML? To throw my 2c in here: I personally normally use

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Wintle
code to either pypy or python3 in the not too distant future. I believe we're most likely to choose python3 for apps with heavy use of Unicode (and pick a version after the changes to internal unicode format landed). Tim Wintle ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 10:56 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:44:32 + Tim Wintle timwin...@gmail.com wrote: 2.5 apps are the speed-critical ones. Our tests showed the performance was different enough between 2.5 and 2.6 for me to not update. Really? Where's

Re: [Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

2010-07-12 Thread Tim Wintle
is for applications where users can write regular expressions as input (exactly what RE2 was designed for) - but I'm not sure how common those applications are. Tim Wintle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu

2011-04-01 Thread Tim Wintle
fairly sure that others will be in the same situation. Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the same library paths), their development environments will. As a result, I'm very much +1 on integrating this patch to previous versions. Tim Wintle

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

2010-01-28 Thread Tim Wintle
the (current) python code, I was able to comfortably start modifying it within a few hours - with the V8 codebase I still haven't got a clue what's going on where, to be honest. Tim Wintle ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http