[Python-Dev] class Foo(object) vs class Foo: should be clearly explained in python 2 and 3 doc

2014-08-09 Thread John Yeuk Hon Wong
Hi. Referring to my discussion on [1] and then on #python this afternoon. A little background would help people to understand where this was coming from. 1. I write Python 2 code and have done zero Python-3 specific code. 2. I have always been using class Foo(object) so I do not know the new

Re: [Python-Dev] Enable Hostname and Certificate Chain Validation

2014-01-22 Thread John Yeuk Hon Wong
On 1/22/14 8:16 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Which is exactly the way most non-web-specialists working inside the comfort of corporate and academic firewalls will react to a change that breaks their access to internal applications, where self-signed certs and improperly configured internal CAs are

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.x vs 3.x survey results

2014-01-04 Thread John Yeuk Hon Wong
On 1/4/14 10:42 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Luca Sbardella luca.sbarde...@gmail.com writes: you are my heroes but this survey is quite useless, can you include more people? The survey cohort was self-selected from those who read the forums where it was posted. I wasn't aware of it so many