[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
While I have not been involved in the release process for like 15 years or more, I would like to point out that breaking changes mean the distros are less likely to ship them, and be less likely to trust updates. Trying to get RH to stop shipping 1.5.2 was a huge effort. Always, any time when

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] On track for Python 2.6.4 final this Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
I strongly urge another release candidate. But then, I am not doing the work, so take that advice for what it is... On Oct 14, 2009 10:18 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I always thought that the idea of a release ... No, but let's do

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 - 3000 code transition?

2008-08-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm planning on re-presenting it at the local google office in the next couple of weeks. I might try and arrange for it to be recorded and put online. At the moment we seem to have a real lack of concrete information for people about the transition. If I had time (ha! HA!) I'd try to turn the

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 - 3000 code transition?

2008-08-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
Last time I looked at it, the C API wasn't nailed down yet. That's why I passed over it entirely for my tutorial. The only advice I was able to give was that if your extension is just a wrapper around existing C code, you might be better off rewriting it using ctypes. That way it should work on

Re: [Python-Dev] Any PEP about 2.6 - 3000 code transition?

2008-07-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
As a data point, I just presented a tutorial here at OSCON on Python 3 Porting, and had a number of people asking about C API changes. I punted for my talk (*) because things are still in flux. Plus I only had 3 hours. I did suggest that if your extension is just glue to a C library, you should

Re: [Python-Dev] summaries not arriving

2007-09-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Monday 10 September 2007, Paul Dubois wrote: As a small boy I once knew wrote, I must not use bad words. (:- It's OK to use them about Barry, though, surely? *wave* Hi Barry. -- Anthony Baxter, ekit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (03) 9674 7015 Level 3 The Teahouse, 28 Clarendon St, Sth

Re: [Python-Dev] Alpha/Tru64 buildbot and SSL compile

2007-09-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
access to that machine. Neal's on leave all this month, I believe. -- Anthony Baxter, ekit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (03) 9674 7015 Level 3 The Teahouse, 28 Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne Australia 3205 ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Need Survey Answers from Core Developers

2007-05-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
and 2.5. (Both figures are likely to be underestimates.) The distinction between major and minor feature is pretty arbitrary, obviously. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

2007-05-16 Thread Anthony Baxter
of JavaScript. What about flash, instead, then? /ducks -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] Official version support statement

2007-05-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
(most recent) for the bugfix releases - the last bugfix release of the previous release after a new major release. I'm OK with these being formalised - but any additional requirements I'd like to discuss first :-) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have

[Python-Dev] best practices stdlib: purging xrange

2007-05-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

[Python-Dev] 2.5 branch unfrozen

2007-04-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ok, things seem to be OK. So the release25-maint branch is unfrozen. Go crazy. Well, a little bit crazy. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5.1, FINAL

2007-04-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
: Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 150 have been fixed. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.5) are available from the Python 2.5 page, at http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release

Re: [Python-Dev] my 2.5 checkins

2007-04-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
that - and I'm not happy to do the release and just hope. I'll roll them all back. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5.1 release candidate

2007-04-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
segfaults, and fixing some exception code)? No, the release binaries are all produced, and just await upload. Apologies for the delay in the uploading - some stuff came up over the Easter break, and then the website wouldn't rebuild (David and Andrew fixed the latter, yay!) Anthony -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] A Survey on Defect Management Practices in Free/Open Source Software

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
Contributors), which is a step ahead of most of them. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

[Python-Dev] branch is frozen for release of 2.5.1c1 (and 2.5.1)

2007-04-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Standard Image and Sound classes (was: SoC proposal: multimedia library)

2007-03-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
and submitted a proposal for the creation of two standard Image and Sound classes. Ideally you'd hook this into the standard library's existing sound file handling modules. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Python-Dev] 2.5.1, buildbots and my availability

2007-03-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'm moving house today and tomorrow, and don't expect to have internet access connected up at home til sometime next week. In the meantime, if there's urgent 2.5.1 related issues, bear with me, as I'll only be on email during the working day. cc Neal (hi Neal :) is the best bet. Also, the

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

2007-03-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
response to this is that people who really feel like this are welcome to pick a release, say, 2.3, and take on the process of backporting the relevant bugfixes back to that release, and cutting new releases, c. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal to revert r54204 (splitext change)

2007-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
or form. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] Backports of standard library modules

2007-03-14 Thread Anthony Baxter
) zero chance that I will do this additional work. It scratches no itches for me, and has the potential to add an enormous amount to my workload of doing a new release. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Python-Dev] version-specific PYTHONPATH env var

2007-03-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
version this problem would go away. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Encouraging developers

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
components that make up Python. That would be a maintenance and management nightmare. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary: rejection of 'dynamic attribute' syntax

2007-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:48, Steve Holden wrote: Greg Ewing wrote: Steve Holden wrote: A further data point is that modern machines seem to give timing variabilities due to CPU temperature variations even if you always eat exactly the same thing. Oh, great. Now we're going to

Re: [Python-Dev] Wrapping up 'dynamic attribute' discussion

2007-02-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
would be to contribute something like this to the Python Cookbook, if it isn't already there. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of dynamic attribute access discussion

2007-02-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:39, Aahz wrote: My point is that I suspect that general objects are not used much with getattr/setattr. Does anyone have evidence counter to that? I think that evidence should be provided before this goes much further; perhaps all that's needed is education

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of dynamic attribute access discussion

2007-02-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
also provide an alternate view with different notation to access it. Since you're creating the view explicitly, I really don't see the problem - any more than say, creating a set from a list, or a dict from a list, or the like. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late

Re: [Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

2007-02-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
causes this problem the most) is with webpages and with printed books with code. Sure, everyone can pick a font for coding that they can read, but that's not the only way you read code. This is my issue with the foo.(bar) syntax. The period is far far too small and easy to miss. -- Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Python/Python-ast.c need to be checked in?

2007-02-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Monday 12 February 2007 13:57, Brett Cannon wrote: On 2/11/07, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/11/07, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the regenerating should happen immediately after commit, as this bumps the revision number of the asdl file. This

Re: [Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

2007-02-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
I have to say that I'm not that impressed by either the 1-arg or 2-arg versions. Someone coming across this syntax for the first time will not have any hints as to what it means - and worse, it looks like a syntax error to me. -1 from me. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Floor division

2007-01-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
function being called if the -W py3k option is on, that gets us part of the way there. And if we have a -3 option or the like that also turns on maximum 3.x compat, that will enable true division, producing the warning. Like I said, it's only a slight concern... -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL

Re: [Python-Dev] syntax misfeature (exception)

2007-01-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
it. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options

Re: [Python-Dev] The bytes type

2007-01-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:52, James Y Knight wrote: Yes, this is it. As a refinement: if the New Way can easily be backported to 2.5, Um - 2.5 is _done_. Released. In maintenance mode. New features will not be getting backported to a 2.5.x release. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
is going to be the clean break. As I mentioned, though, I'd like as far as possible to make it so that 2.6 (with a flag) can be at least vaguely compatible with 3.0. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
, but it may be possible to do _something_ clever. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
of people say that this is something they would really, really like to see - the idea is both to let people migrate more easily, and provide reassurance that it won't be that bad to migrate! -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
global int is hardly going to make a huge impact at all. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Warning for 2.6 and greater

2007-01-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
cc'ing python-dev - followups should probably go there, rather than the p3yk list. So here's my latest plan: - Add a Py3KDeprecationWarning, as a subclass of DeprecationWarning (or maybe just of Warning) - Add a -W py3k shortcut, which is the same as -W once:Py3kDeprecationWarning - Add a C

Re: [Python-Dev] kill the cbsoutdoor.co.uk autoresponder

2007-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 05 January 2007 17:40, Gregory P. Smith wrote: Whoever is subscribed to python-dev with a broken corporate autoresponder that sends everyone who posts to the list this useless response multiple times please unsubscribe yourself. Its highly annoying and entirely useless since its not

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for python SIP and MGCP stacks

2006-12-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:15, Jenny Zhao (zhzhao) wrote: Hi Python developers, I am using python to write a testing tools, currently this tool only supports skinny protocol. I am planning to add SIP and MGCP support as well, wondering if you have written these protocol stacks before

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible platforms to drop in 2.6

2006-12-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:19, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: Of course, if the project management decide that even the EMX support should be removed from the official tree - so be it; I will just have to maintain the port outside the official tree. I feel that so long as there's an active

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

2006-11-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
it doesn't cause issues.) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Passing floats to file.seek

2006-11-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
(for whatever reason) is flinging floats around where they actually meant to have ints, going straight to an error from silently truncating and accepting it seems a little bit harsh. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
of the bug are so dire). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52692 - in python/trunk: Lib/mailbox.py Misc/NEWS

2006-11-09 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 10 November 2006 13:45, A.M. Kuchling wrote: OK, I'll backport it; thanks! (It's not fixing a frequent data-loss problem -- the patch just assures that when flush() or close() returns, data is more likely to have been written to disk and be safe after a subsequent system crash.)

Re: [Python-Dev] Using SCons for cross-compilation

2006-11-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
... or am I missing something? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] __dir__, part 2

2006-11-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
appropriate, too. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, FINAL

2006-11-01 Thread Anthony Baxter
://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf

Re: [Python-Dev] build bots, log output

2006-10-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
to the buildslave code at all - only to the buildmaster and to regrtest. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r52482 - in python/branches/release25-maint: Lib/urllib.py Lib/urllib2.py Misc/NEWS

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
) will get a new release, and then only with the serious bugfixes applied. One active maintenance branch is quite enough to deal with, IMHO. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.3.6, release candidate 1

2006-10-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
: http://www.python.org/2.3.6 Highlights of this new release include: - A fix for PSF-2006-001, a bug in repr() for unicode strings on UCS-4 (wide unicode) builds. - Two other, less critical, security fixes. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager

Re: [Python-Dev] PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

2006-10-22 Thread Anthony Baxter
Thanks to the folks involved in this prcocess - I'm looking forward to getting the hell away from SF's bug tracker. :-) Anthony ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.4, Final.

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
) builds. Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpHQFKzDQCYF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] state of the maintenance branches

2006-10-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
to disagreement or other opinions - if you have them, let me know. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:54, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Martin v. L�wis wrote: In 2.3.6, there wouldn't just be that change, but also a few other changes that have been collected, some relevant for Windows as well why not just do a 2.3.5+security source release, and leave the rest to the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
we can do to help? Less than a normal release, since I'm not going to worry about changing the docs, the windows installers or the mac installers. I'll look at it next week, once 2.4.4 final is done. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE release24-maint, Wed 18th Oct, 00:00UTC

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
that it can be checked in. It _should_ be good, and probably needs to be applied to release25-maint and the trunk as well. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:59, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: FYI -- can't do svn checkouts/updates from the trunk at this point. starting svn operation svn update --revision HEAD in dir /home/twistbot/pybot/trunk.gheorghiu-x86/build (timeout 1200 secs) svn: PROPFIND request failed on

Re: [Python-Dev] svn.python.org down

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ah - the svn-apache server was down. I've restarted it. We should probably put some monitoring/restarting in place for those servers - if someone wants to volunteer a script I'll add it to cron, or I'll write it myself when I get a chance. (I was testing with svn+ssh, it was the http version

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
the sidebar menu quicklinks for 2.4.4 to 2.5. There's just too many files, and the structure of pyramid's files still doesn't make sense to me. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] os.utime on directories: bug fix or new feature?

2006-10-15 Thread Anthony Baxter
2.5 either, I'd say it's on the edge of being a bugfix. Let's be conservative and not backport it, since it's also a pretty marginal feature. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
is not the tricky bit - I have a dinky little python script that generates the download table. The problems are with the other bits of the pages. I keep thinking next release, I'll automate it further, but never have time on the day. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
all the time. Pyramid obviously isn't such a system. I can't disagree with this. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
on it right now - Ronald might be able to supply more details as to why. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
I've had a couple of queries about whether PSF-2006-001 merits a 2.3.6. Personally, I lean towards no - 2.4 was nearly two years ago now. But I'm open to other opinions - I guess people see the phrase buffer overrun and they get scared. Plus once 2.4.4 final is out next week, I'll have cut 12

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.4.4, release candidate 1

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpzcYkwpfnHG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:18, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Anthony Baxter wrote: 16 releases in 12 months would just about make me go crazy. is there any way we could further automate or otherwise streamline or distribute the release process ? It's already pretty heavily automated (see

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 13 October 2006 06:25, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: Mostly it is easy for me, with the one huge caveat. As far as I know, the Mac build is a single command to run for Ronald, and the Doc build similarly for Fred. I don't know what

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.5 performance

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
of Unix - I'm happy that they are all mostly[1] sane. Anthony [1] Offer void on some versions of HP/UX, Irix, AIX wink -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 13 October 2006 05:30, Georg Brandl wrote: I'm I the only one who feels that the website is a big workflow problem? Assuming you meant Am I, then I absolutely agree with you. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
that is a major investment of time, which I also don't have. Yes, had I spent the probably 20+ hours I've spent doing website stuff I could have made it a bit better, but that's what I know _now_ :) -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.3.6 for the unicode buffer overrun

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
on a bunch of different files, then check it in all in one hit once it's done and checked. This was an issue I had with the various wiki-based proposals, I haven't seen many wikis that allow this. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Why spawnvp not implemented on Windows?

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony Baxter
2.6. Sorry Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE, release24-maint for 2.4.4c1. 00:00UTC, 11 October 2006

2006-10-10 Thread Anthony Baxter
The release24-maint branch is frozen for the 2.4.4c1 release from 00:00UTC on the 11th of October. That's about 7 hours from now. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing

Re: [Python-Dev] AST structure and maintenance branches

2006-09-28 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 29 September 2006 00:30, Jeremy Hylton wrote: On 9/23/06, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to propose that the AST format returned by passing PyCF_ONLY_AST to compile() get the same guarantee in maintenance branches as the bytecode format - that is, unless it's

[Python-Dev] 2.4.4c1 October 11, 2.4.4 final October 18

2006-09-25 Thread Anthony Baxter
The plan for 2.4.4 is to have a release candidate on October 11th, and a final release on October 18th. This is very likely to be the last ever 2.4 release, after which 2.4.4 joins 2.3.5 and earlier in the old folks home, where it can live out it's remaining life with dignity and respect. If

[Python-Dev] AST structure and maintenance branches

2006-09-23 Thread Anthony Baxter
I'd like to propose that the AST format returned by passing PyCF_ONLY_AST to compile() get the same guarantee in maintenance branches as the bytecode format - that is, unless it's absolutely necessary, we'll keep it the same. Otherwise anyone trying to write tools to manipulate the AST is in

[Python-Dev] release25-maint is UNFROZEN

2006-09-21 Thread Anthony Baxter
on python-dev first. Thanks to everyone for helping make 2.5 happen. It's been a long slog there, but I think we can all be proud of the result. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (FINAL)

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
profiling module (cProfile) was added. Extra-special thanks on behalf of the entire Python community should go out to Neal Norwitz, who's done absolutely sterling work in shepherding Python 2.5 through to it's final release. Enjoy this new release, (and Woo-HOO! It's done!) Anthony Anthony Baxter

[Python-Dev] release25-maint branch - please keep frozen for a day or two more.

2006-09-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
Could people please treat the release25-maint branch as frozen for a day or two, just in case we have to cut an ohmygodnononokillme release? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] Before 2.5 - More signed integer overflows

2006-09-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
delay the release until it's fixed. I'm strongly leaning towards (2) at this point. (1) would probably require another release candidate, while (3) would result in another release candidate and massive amount of sobbing from a lot of people (including me). -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE/IMMINENT RELEASE: Python 2.5 (final). 2006-09-19, 00:00UTC

2006-09-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
on the last few releases, I'd expect the release process to take around 18 hours (timezones are a swine). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (release candidate 2)

2006-09-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
, a new profiling module cProfile was added. Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

[Python-Dev] release is done, but release25-maint branch remains near-frozen

2006-09-13 Thread Anthony Baxter
Ok - we're looking at a final release in 7 days time. I really, really, really don't want to have to cut an rc3, so unless it's a seriously critical brown-paper-bag bug, let's hold off on the checkins. Documentation, I don't mind so much - particularly any formatting errors. -- Anthony

[Python-Dev] BRANCH FREEZE: release25-maint, 00:00UTC 12 September 2006

2006-09-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
. This is for 2.5rc2. Once this is out, I'd like to see as close to zero changes as possible for the next week or so until 2.5 final is released. My god, it's getting so close... Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime's strftime implementation: by design or bug

2006-09-11 Thread Anthony Baxter
Please log a bug - this is probably something suitable for fixing in 2.5.1. At the very least, if it's going to be limited to 127 characters, it should check that and raise a more suitable exception. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
be a *definite* for 2.5.1 and subsequent releases. Possibly. I remain unconvinced. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-08 Thread Anthony Baxter
possible that this could be considered a bugfix, but as I said right now I'm dubious. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode Imports

2006-09-07 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 08 September 2006 02:56, Kristján V. Jónsson wrote: Hello All. I just added patch 1552880 to sourceforge. It is a patch for 2.6 (and 2.5) which allows unicode paths in sys.path and uses the unicode file api on windows. This is tried and tested on 2.5, and backported to 2.3 and is

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
are an complete *nightmare* of platform-specific behaviour. I'm -1000 on trying to change this code now, _after_ the first release candidate. To say that that path lies madness is like saying Pacific Ocean large, wet, full of fish. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:05, Nick Maclaren wrote: Anthony Baxter isn't exaggerating the problem, despite what you may think from his posting. If the SF bugtracker had a better search interface, you could see why I have such a bleak view of this area of Python. What's there now *mostly

Re: [Python-Dev] Signals, threads, blocking C functions

2006-09-04 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:52, Gustavo Carneiro wrote: 3. Signals can be delivered to any thread, let's assume (because of point #1 and not others not mentioned) that we have no control over which threads receive which signals, might as well be random for all we know; Note that

Re: [Python-Dev] Py2.5 issue: decimal context manager misimplemented, misdesigned, and misdocumented

2006-09-02 Thread Anthony Baxter
go ahead and backport. I think this is suitable for 2.5. I'm thinking, though, that we need a second release candidate, given the number of changes since rc1. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood

Re: [Python-Dev] A test suite for unittest

2006-08-31 Thread Anthony Baxter
At this point, I'd say the documentation patches should go in - the other patches are probably appropriate for 2.5.1. I only want to accept critical patches between now and 2.5 final. Thanks for the patches (and particularly for the unittest! woo!) Anthony

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 08:57, Tim Peters wrote: Speaking of which, I saw no feedback on the proposed patch in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068502.html so I'll just check that in tomorrow. Fine with me! thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-29 Thread Anthony Baxter
-maint. Let me know if you can't do the backport... -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] gcc 4.2 exposes signed integer overflows

2006-08-27 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Sunday 27 August 2006 05:06, Jack Howarth wrote: I discovered that gcc 4.2 exposes a flaw with signed integer overflows in python. This bug and the necessary fix has been discussed in detail on the gcc mailing list. I have filed a detailed bug report and the recommended patch

Re: [Python-Dev] How does this help? Re: [Python-checkins] r51366 - python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py

2006-08-19 Thread Anthony Baxter
number? :-) I'd very much like to do this, but I figured this was a good first step. -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

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