[Python-Dev] Re: Recent PEP-8 change

2020-06-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
ld be regarded as neutral in any world wide debate on English. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: [Python-Dev] "Deprecation" of os.system in favor of subprocess?

2018-10-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
e been shot to pieces so case closed. Goodbye. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Python-Dev] Change in Python 3's "round" behavior

2018-10-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] SEC: Spectre variant 2: GCC: -mindirect-branch=thunk -mindirect-branch-register

2018-09-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
k not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] Tone it down on Twitter?

2018-07-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
s to be reserved for morons like the current president of the USA. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

2018-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
ar to organise the 25th birthday party. The exact time and place for the party will obviously have to be discussed on python-ideas, or do we need a new mailing list? :-) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Law

Re: [Python-Dev] Guarantee ordered dict literals in v3.7?

2017-11-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
umber of questions from newbies going off of the Richter scale? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [bpo-30421]: Pull request review

2017-08-28 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
e not discussed on the bpo issue. The bulk of the work on argparse in recent years has been done by paul.j3. I have no idea whether or not he is classed as a core developer. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Law

Re: [Python-Dev] 64 bit units in PyLong

2017-07-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
o for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] python docs

2017-05-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
be swamped. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Python-Dev] mention aenum in the Enum docs?

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
here https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible bug in class-init, lookin for mentors

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] windows installer and python list mention

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
, on pypi rather than have them tied into the Python release cycle. If YMMV so be it. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-02 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 02/11/2016 12:09, Terry Reedy wrote: On 11/2/2016 3:54 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote: On 02/11/2016 06:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: That is correct. This is clearly a feature, and 2.7 currently is accepting only security-related patches (broadly construed -- a sufficiently

Re: [Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-02 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
it could be used to implement a DoS attack). Surely patches related to any bugs, not just security related ones, will be accepted until EOL in 2020? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

2016-09-12 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
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Re: [Python-Dev] Why does base64 return bytes?

2016-06-14 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
o play detective I'd suggest https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-July/008975.html -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Smoothing the transition from Python 2 to 3

2016-06-09 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
is there a case for deprecating it? * There are 46 outstanding issues on the bug tracker. Is the above the reason for this, I don't know? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence __

Re: [Python-Dev] runtime dlls on Windows

2016-05-26 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
ke. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 06/05/2016 00:06, Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 05, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote: On 05/05/2016 23:22, Stefan Krah wrote Fredrik Lundh is also affected (and might not have received any mail, same as me): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PIL Maybe, but then there&#

Re: [Python-Dev] Yearly PyPI breakage

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
have similar problems, in which case please say so. The rest of the community might not understand, I certainly will. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10%

2016-02-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
ops support for bytecode in favour of a wordcode-based model (where a is word is 16 bits wide). It also implements an hybrid stack-register virtual machine, and adds a lot of other optimizations. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you

Re: [Python-Dev] New poll about a macro for safe reference replacing

2015-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
he compiler/IDE will let you know pretty quick if you put an integer vs a PyObject* there. Cheers, Steve Or Py_SAFEREF or SAFE_REF? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence __

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4 musings (was Re: Deleting with setting C API functions)

2015-12-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
we have a PEP on this please, otherwise there's likely to be a great deal of confusion between hand grenade style counting, and the faculty rules at the University of Walamaloo. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: [Python-Dev] "python.exe is not a valid Win32 app"

2015-12-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
stions such as this. However Python 3.5 is *NOT* supported on XP. Work has been done for 3.5.1 to improve the user experience in this scenario. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Ma

Re: [Python-Dev] Should PEP 498 specify if rf'...' is valid?

2015-10-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
cs™ be unique in the programming world? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler

2015-09-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
or anyone interested although this http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 mingw issue is closed, it points to four other issues. In total there are around 25 mingw issues open. Maybe some of the work done on them can be tied up with the work that Carl Kleffner has done? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask

Re: [Python-Dev] My collection of Python 3.5.0 regressions

2015-09-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/09/2015 06:38, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Lawrence writes: > I agree very strongly with your point here. Raising umpteen issues > over installation failures when a full release comes out strikes me > as below the belt when there have been multiple previous releases

Re: [Python-Dev] My collection of Python 3.5.0 regressions

2015-09-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
failures when a full release comes out strikes me as below the belt when there have been multiple previous releases without a squeak. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence __

Re: [Python-Dev] What happens of the Python 3.4 branch?

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
3.4.5+) will be source code only. How's that? //arry/ Sorry but Sunday October 13th doesn't suit me, how about Sunday October 11th or Sunday October 18th? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

[Python-Dev] Issues not responded to.

2015-07-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
medium to longer term, from the simple short term ones, e.g very easy typo fixes? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 16:47, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 28/07/2015 06:21, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less. In my mission critical code, which I use

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 13:35, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: One week == 7 days == 7 * 24 hours Two weeks = 2 * (one week) Right, and that of course is not true in actual reality. I know you are not interested in DST, but with a timezone that has DST, two

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
true. In my real world it is. We clearly have parallel worlds. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.py

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 06:21, Lennart Regebro wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less. OK. In my mission critical code, which I use to predict my cashflow, I use code such as. timedelta(days=14) Is somebody now going to tell

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/07/2015 03:15, Tim Peters wrote: [Mark Lawrence ] To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less. I have no interest in messing about with daylight savings of 30 minutes, one hour, two hours or any other variant that I've not heard about. In my mission critical code, which I u

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
code such as. timedelta(days=14) Is somebody now going to tell me that this isn't actually two weeks? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailin

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
n do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Burning down the backlog.

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
t the more time we spend assisting Cannon, Coghlan & Co on the core workflow, the quicker, in the medium to long term, we put the backlog of issues to bed. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you

Re: [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

2015-07-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 25/07/2015 00:06, ISAAC J SCHWABACHER wrote: I got to "Daylight Saving Time is a red herring," and stopped reading. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mar

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
can't keep discussions cordial, friendly, and on-point on this list and prevent this sort of debacle from occurring again. +infinity -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence _

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
ith. Regards Antoine. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Python-Dev] How far to go with user-friendliness

2015-07-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 493: Redistributor guidance for Python 2.7 HTTPS

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
n do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 493: Redistributor guidance for Python 2.7 HTTPS

2015-07-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
statement for some threads. Gently putting the OP down with a firm but polite "it ain't gonna happen" would save a lot of time all around. Just my £0.02p worth. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Obtaining stack-frames from co-routine objects

2015-06-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
r you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Unable to build regex module against Python 3.5 32-bit

2015-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
want libpython??.a. This http://bugs.python.org/issue24385 should interest you. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] RM for 3.6?

2015-06-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
ly as RM for 3.6: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ Does he know already? The suck^H^H^H^H man even volunteered! Was that "volunteered" as in RM or the Comfy Chair? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: [Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
repeating what Raymond said further up this subthread two hours and one minute before you didn't say it :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ P

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 489: Redesigning extension module loading

2015-03-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Emit SyntaxWarning on unrecognized backslash escapes?

2015-02-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
xt". He has no ideas what happen. Isn't this why users have help desks? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

2015-02-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/02/2015 18:06, Steve Dower wrote: "Go ahead, make my pep." We should make a python-dev t-shirt with this on it :) I'll buy one provided p&p isn't too high :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

2015-02-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
Satan. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] (no subject)

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Antoine. Highly recommended as effectively zero spam. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 484 syntax: NONONONONONONO!

2015-02-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Compile Python on Windows (OpenSSL)

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
nguage can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/arch

Re: [Python-Dev] New Windows installer for Python 3.5

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
hat's help keep me slightly sane is the Rapid Environment Editor http://www.rapidee.com/en/about. I'm sure there are plenty of other choices but it does what I need. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask wha

Re: [Python-Dev] New Windows installer for Python 3.5

2015-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
PATH so it could be 32 or 64 bit. Does this mean that the launcher could be or needs enhancing so 32 or 64 bit can be selected? I'm not sure if anything can be done about pyw.exe, perhaps you (plural) can throw some light on this for m

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
Links to older versions have been pointed out on other threads, either here or python-ideas, maybe both? Or use the command line as Antoine pointed out elsewhere. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
the famous GDB debugger? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASE] Python 3.4.2 is now available

2014-10-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
f work. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://

Re: [Python-Dev] List insert at index that is well out of range - behaves like append

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
houldn't that read s[i:i+1] = [x] ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Python-Dev] Documenting enum types

2014-08-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
ll be seeing the PSF in court, on the grounds that I've just bust a gut laughing :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] Reviving restricted mode?

2014-08-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
approach, but I can't find them. Any chance of giving us some context, or do I have to retrieve my crystal ball from the menders? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Law

[Python-Dev] PEP 3121, 384 Refactoring Issues

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
free to put me on the nosy list and ask for a test run. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avas

[Python-Dev] Pending issues

2014-07-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
d style classes are defined. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___

Re: [Python-Dev] subprocess shell=True on Windows doesn't escape ^ character

2014-06-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
an do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11

2014-06-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
w Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Python-Dev maili

Re: [Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler

2014-06-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
possible to use hex digits, such that 2.7.A was the first release on Windows with the different compiler? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/06/2014 09:53, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: On 06/04/2014 05:52 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/06/2014 16:32, Steve Dower wrote: If copying into a separate list is a problem (memory-wise), re.finditer('\\S+', string) also provides the same behaviour and gives me the sliced string, so

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/06/2014 16:52, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/06/2014 16:32, Steve Dower wrote: If copying into a separate list is a problem (memory-wise), re.finditer('\\S+', string) also provides the same behaviour and gives me the sliced string, so there's no need to index for anything.

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
view of them. Could this actually be implemented in the future, is the underlying C code just too complicated, or what? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because av

Re: [Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

2014-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
idn't make somebody's day dull! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus pro

Re: [Python-Dev] Language Summit Follow-Up

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
hon 2 support is still infinitely more important than Python 3. -Mark What is the point of flogging a horse that's been dead for so long that it's already down to a skeleton? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

2014-04-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
r our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubs

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial sluggishness (was: this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup)

2014-04-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
Antoine. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Except those who expect Python 2.8? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Ant

Re: [Python-Dev] Python "2migr8"

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
th the grate part. Failing that, how about a play on 2 + 8 = ache? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is a

Re: [Python-Dev] issue with itertools leads the crash

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
s/pep-0373/ the final release of 2.7 is scheduled to be 2.7.9 in May 2015. Did you mean to say that 2.7 isn't getting new features? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses

Re: [Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
ot what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@py

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility

2014-03-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Cherry-pick between Python 3.4 RC2 and final?

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
Will this impact on the decision http://bugs.python.org/issue20846 ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://w

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 2

2014-02-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
%a? I placed it under your nose https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131636.html but personally I wouldn't lose any sleep whether it stays or goes. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 2

2014-02-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/02/2014 02:30, Ethan Furman wrote: +be any more of a nuisance than the already existing methdods. Typo "methdods". -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses a

Re: [Python-Dev] python 3 niggle: None < 1 raises TypeError

2014-02-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
quot; in Python 3.5. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
xcept an int. The docs don't say anything about using None, except in the "equivalent to" section, which is also the only place where it looks as if times can be a keyword argument. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:56, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the

Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote: Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think python-list is a good

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3 marketing document?

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: [Python-Dev] str.rreplace

2014-01-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/01/2014 16:32, Ram Rachum wrote: Question: Why is there no str.rreplace in Python? It's not needed. Is this *REALLY* relevant to this list? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Law

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 Final?

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
could cause problems in the future as b is used in new style formatting to mean output numbers in binary, so %B seems to me the obvious choice as it's also unused. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mar

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/01/2014 15:41, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/17/2014 07:15 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: For both options 1 and 2 surely you cannot be suggesting that after people have written 2.x code to use format() as %f formatting is to be deprecated %f formatting is not deprecated, and will not be in 3

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
1 or 2. Eric. For both options 1 and 2 surely you cannot be suggesting that after people have written 2.x code to use format() as %f formatting is to be deprecated, they now have to change the code back to the way they may well have written it in the first place?

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
ious what it does. I'm against __ascii__ as I'd automatically associate that with ascii in the same way that I associate str with __str__ and repr with __repr__. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence

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