Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections

2008-06-15 Thread Alexander Schremmer
Armin Ronacher wrote: That's true, but by now there are countless of ordered dict implementations with a mostly-compatible interface and applications and libraries are using them already. Even worse, most of them are slow, i.e. show a wrong algorithmic complexity ... I have an example

[Python-Dev] sys.last_traceback - annoying pdb.pm behaviour

2007-08-18 Thread Alexander Schremmer
Hi there, when trying to use pdb, I spotted some kind of annoying behaviour of pdb: for pdb.pm, it still uses sys.last_traceback which is set by code.py This renders the function unusable in non-interactive contexts ... I suggest to change pdb.pm to use sys.exc_traceback instead. Any reasons not

[Python-Dev] sys.last_traceback - annoying pdb behaviour

2007-08-18 Thread Alexander Schremmer
Hi there, when I tried to use pdb, I spotted some kind of annoying behaviour of pdb: for pdb.pm, it still uses sys.last_traceback which is set by code.py This renders the function unusable in non-interactive contexts ... I suggest to change pdb.pm to use sys.exc_traceback instead. Any reasons

Re: [Python-Dev] sys.last_traceback - annoying pdb behaviour

2007-08-18 Thread Alexander Schremmer
Guido van Rossum wrote: On 8/18/07, Alexander Schremmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I tried to use pdb, I spotted some kind of annoying behaviour of pdb: for pdb.pm, it still uses sys.last_traceback which is set by code.py This renders the function unusable in non-interactive contexts

Re: [Python-Dev] git (Was: Encouraging developers)

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Schremmer
Hi python-dev, MvL wrote: the on-disk repository is mighty big and it doesn't work very well on non-Linux systems (at least, not last I looked.) Yes, mercurial or Bazaar do its job better on Windows etc. (and are written in Python :-) Not true. The on-disk repository is now one of the more

Re: [Python-Dev] Missing 2.5 feature

2006-07-10 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:45:05 -0700, Neal Norwitz wrote: There hasn't been much positive response (in the original thread or here). Given you forgot about it for over a year, how important can it be? :-) For me it would be very important because I often wonder where the threads are currently

Re: [Python-Dev] Source control tools

2006-06-15 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:00:09 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Op di, 13-06-2006 te 10:27 +0200, schreef Alexander Schremmer: Bazaar-NG seems to reach limits already when working on it's own code/repository. Canonical uses bzr to develop launchpad.net, which is a little bit larger dan bzr itself

Re: [Python-Dev] Source control tools

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:31:14 +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote: I did partial imports into Mercurial and Bazaar-NG, but I got interrupted and couldn't draw any conclusions -- although from looking at the implementation, I don't think they'd scale very well at the moment (but that could probably be

Re: [Python-Dev] The i string-prefix: I18n'ed strings

2006-04-07 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 20:35:51 -0400, Martin Blais wrote: This is pretty standard getttext stuff, if you used _() a lot I'm surprised you don't have a need for N_(), I always needed it when I used i18n (or maybe I misunderstood your question?). Have you thought about simply writing _ = lambda

Re: [Python-Dev] The i string-prefix: I18n'ed strings

2006-04-07 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:07:26 -0400, Martin Blais wrote: There are cases where you need N_() after initialization, so you need both, really. See the link I sent to Alex earlier (to the GNU manual example). On the page you were referring to, I cannot find a particular use case that does not

Re: [Python-Dev] Threading idea -- exposing a global thread lock

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:57:59 -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: Think of it as non-cooperative multi-threading. While this is a somewhat rough approach, it is dramatically simpler than the alternatives (i.e. wrapping locks around every access to a resource or feeding all resource requests to

Re: [Python-Dev] About Coverity Study Ranks LAMP Code Quality

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:55:52 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I can understand that position. The bugs they find include potential security flaws, for which exploits could be created if the results are freely available. On the other hand, the exploit could be crafted based on reading the SVN

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Translating docs

2006-02-26 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:50:57 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: Martin: There aren't any German docs, are there? There is e.g. http://starship.python.net/~gherman/publications/tut-de/ Kind regards, Alexander ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:13:14 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote: If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted, it would be extremely convenient to refer someone to just docs.python.org/os.path.join In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even shorter, i.e. they fallback to

Re: [Python-Dev] os.path.getmtime on Windows

2006-01-15 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:23:39 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: There are several issues involved in implementing such a patch, though. One is that you need to do it twice: once for Win9x, and once for NT+, because you have to use Unicode file names on one system, and ANSI file names on the other.

[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.4.1, release candidate 1

2005-03-12 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:38:50 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Somebody reported that it failed to update python24.dll in an update installation; not sure why this would be. Because it was in use? Kind regards, Alexander ___ Python-Dev mailing list