Re: [Python-Dev] mingw support?

2010-08-09 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Sturla Molden stu...@molden.no wrote: Terry Reedy:    MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW.

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal - float comparisons in py3k.

2010-03-20 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Case Vanhorsen cas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal - float comparisons in py3k.

2010-03-20 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Case Vanhorsen cas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: What external modules are there that rely on existing hash behaviour

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal - float comparisons in py3k.

2010-03-19 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com wrote: Making hashes of int, float, Decimal *and* Fraction all compatible with one another, efficient for ints and floats, and not grossly inefficient

Re: [Python-Dev] Providing support files to assist 3.x extension authors

2009-12-21 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Several questions come to mind: 1) Is it reasonable to provide backward compatibility files (either as .h or .c) to provide support to new API calls to extension authors? I'm skeptical. In my experience, each

[Python-Dev] Providing support files to assist 3.x extension authors

2009-12-19 Thread Case Vanhorsen
Hello, When I ported gmpy (Python to GMP multiple precision library) to Python 3.x, I began to use PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow frequently. I found the code to slightly faster and cleaner than using PyLong_AsLong and checking for overflow. I looked at making PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow available to

Re: [Python-Dev] Removal of intobject.h in 3.1

2009-11-21 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: IMHO, that's not really a good way to encourage people to try to provide a smooth upgrade to the 3.x branch. Much to the contrary. 3.x should make it easier for developers by providing more standard helpers like the

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144: IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library

2009-08-20 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Peter Moodype...@hda3.com wrote: The pep has been updated with the excellent suggestions thus far. Are there any more? Thanks for writing the PEP. I tried a few of the common scenarios that I use at work. Disclaimer: my comments are based on my work

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr

2009-06-02 Thread Case Vanhorsen
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: We could remove it, but then what we have wouldn't really be a release candidate anymore, so the release would get delayed. How long do release candidates soak in the field before being accepted? For this release, the