Re: [Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

2012-02-09 Thread Mike Meyer
. For those of you not watching -ideas, or ignoring the Python TIOBE -3% discussion, this would seem to be relevant to any discussion of reworking the import mechanism: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-January/059801.html mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:14:36 -0500 Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Jan 28, 2012, at 09:15 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: So I do not support the __preview__ package. I think we're better off flagging experimental modules in the docs than in

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 408 -- Standard library __preview__ package

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Le samedi 28 janvier 2012 à 10:46 -0800, Mike Meyer a écrit : Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: You will see people copying recipes found on the internet without knowing that they rely on unstable APIs. How. About doing them the way we do

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed PEP on concurrent programming support

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:07:27 -0500 PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: A suite is marked as a `transaction`, and then when an unlocked object is modified, instead of indicating an error, a locked copy of it is created

Re: [Python-Dev] A question about the subprocess implementation

2012-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
one interesting question, which will go to ideas... mike -- Mike Meyer m...@mired.org http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org import os from subprocess

Re: [Python-Dev] A question about the subprocess implementation

2012-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 02:06:33 + (UTC) Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org writes: Since the only reason they exist is so you can access your end of a pipe, setting them to anything would seem to be a bug. I'd argue that their existence is more a pola

[Python-Dev] Proposed PEP on concurrent programming support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Meyer
PEP: XXX Title: Interpreter support for concurrent programming Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Mike Meyer m...@mired.org Status: Draft Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 11-Nov-2011 Post-History: Abstract The purpose of this PEP is to explore

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:49:37 + Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: These figures can't possibly be true. No-one is using Python 3 yet. ;-) Since you brought it up. Is anyone paying people (or trying to hire people) to write Python 3? Thanks, mike -- Mike Meyer m

Re: [Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:02:35 +0100 Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: a) The stdlib documentation should help users to choose the right tool right from the start. b) cElementTree should finally loose it's special status as a separate library and disappear as an accelerator module behind

Re: [Python-Dev] [PATCH] Adding braces to __future__

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:26:29 +0100 Cedric Sodhi man...@gmx.net wrote: Readable code, is it really an advantage? Of course it is. Ok, you got that right. Forcing the programmer to write readable code, is that an advantage? No suspense, the answer is Of course not. This is *not* an Of course.

Re: [Python-Dev] Python XML Validator

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:55:04 +0100 Stefan Behnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (weird places these threads come up at, but now that it's here...) Mike Meyer wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:32 -0800 Ned Deily [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Python-Dev] Python XML Validator

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:01:14 +1300 Greg Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Meyer wrote: Trying to install it from the repository is a PITA, because it uses both the easyinstall and Pyrex It shouldn't depend on Pyrex as long as it's distributed with the generated C files. If it's

Re: [Python-Dev] Python XML Validator

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:32 -0800 Ned Deily [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:42:49 + (UTC) Medhat Gayed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lxml is good but not written in python and difficult to install

Re: [Python-Dev] Python XML Validator

2008-03-04 Thread Mike Meyer
current lxml work with the outdated versions of those libraries found in current OS distributions. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information

Re: [Python-Dev] [OT] Re: getpass and stdin

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Meyer
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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r60919 - peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt

2008-02-23 Thread Mike Meyer
saw a reference to 120-column cards *somewhere*) is left as an exercise for the reader. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information