[Python-Dev] Re: Release of a responsive python-docs-theme 2021.5

2021-05-09 Thread Titus Brown
Thanks, Carol (and Olga)! This sounds great! I’m sure you can all google :), but here’s the link: https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme I wasn’t able to find examples - is this what is up and running on docs.python.org, or is that a future plan? thanks much, —titus p.s. Not sure what

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February

2021-03-09 Thread Titus Brown
> On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 3/9/2021 3:27 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > >> The Steering Council just published the community update for February: > > Thank you for posting this. > >>The Steering Council discussed renaming the master branch to main >>

[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-ideas] Re: Amend PEP-8 to require clear, understandable comments instead of Strunk & White Standard English comments

2020-06-29 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-Dev
Hi all, as a moderator of python-ideas, I’ve asked postmaster to place python-ideas into emergency moderation. (I do not have the tools to do so myself.) I’m willing to review messages individually as needed. best, —titus > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > wrote: > >

[Python-Dev] Re: [Possibly off-topic] Python-Announce floods and delays

2019-07-08 Thread C. Titus Brown
stamps) to > something that can be done on a coffee break. I already help moderate python-ideas and would be happy to help moderate announce. best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org

[Python-Dev] Re: Annoying user on GitHub

2019-07-02 Thread C. Titus Brown
> On Jul 2, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Steve Dower wrote: > > On 02Jul2019 0840, Mariatta wrote: >> I've used the "Report abuse" feature on GitHub for such situations. Most of >> the time I see the user suspended, and the associated comments deleted. >> Our GitHub admins can delete comments too. >> On

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite build slaves and developer SSH/GPG public keys

2012-08-24 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Giampaolo Rodol? wrote: For committers on other Python projects like Buildbot, Django and Twisted that may be reading this -- yes, the plan is to give you guys Snakebite access/slaves down the track too. I'll start looking into

Re: [Python-Dev] GitHub mirror (Was: Bitbucket mirror?)

2012-07-05 Thread C. Titus Brown
or the bugs.python.org process is considered critical for potentially minor doc changes and additions.) thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
regularly discover nifty new modules that replace stdlib modules. It'd be nice to have pointers in the docs, although that runs the risk of having the pointers grow stale, too. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

2012-03-12 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:42:55AM +0200, Eli Bendersky wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:25, C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu wrote: I see the point, but as a reasonably knowledgeable Python programmer (intelligent? who knows...) I regularly discover nifty new modules that replace stdlib

Re: [Python-Dev] #include Python.h

2012-01-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
with this discussion is python-ideas. Could you repost over there? cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot for AIX

2010-11-08 Thread C. Titus Brown
that a master/slave system like buildbot provides... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
off the buildbot setup rather than replacing it. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

2010-11-02 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:28:43PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: C. Titus Brown writes: p.s. Seriously? I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument for this feature, It is a feature, even if you aren't gonna need it. I want it.wink Many programmers do know

Re: [Python-Dev] Cleaning-up the new unittest API

2010-11-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
. I guess I don't live up to your standards. --titus p.s. Seriously? I can accept that there's a rational minimalist argument for this feature, but arguing that it's somehow the responsibility of a programmer to *expect* this seems kind of whack. -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x

2010-10-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
is not *strictly* necessary but should probably be obtained, too. p.p.s. The PSF isn't foolish enough to let me speak for them, in case anyone is wondering. -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
/markup/index.html for sphinx-specific markup constructs. thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:36:10PM +0530, Shashwat Anand wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu wrote: Hi all, over on the fellowship o' the packaging mailing list, one of our GSoC students (merwok) asked about how much formatting info should go into Python

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote: On 07/07/2010 17:06, Shashwat Anand wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu mailto:c...@msu.edu wrote: Hi all, over on the fellowship o' the packaging mailing list, one of our GSoC

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

2010-07-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
much easier to change the official repo, but it still incurs costs in terms of documentation, workflow changes, etc. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] FHS compliance of Python installation

2010-06-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
as of 2004. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html A quick scan suggests /usr/lib is the right place to look: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
with patches that are branches on someone's bitbucket or github repo; much better than uploading and downloading patch files while in the middle of a discussion. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
can do, IMO, and hardware is just not that expensive compared to the dedication of the volunteers. If Georg, Benjamin, Martin, or Ronald are interested, please just tell me (or Steve, or the PSF board, or ...) what you want and I'll work on getting it funded. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
, or rely on extrinsic motivations (money, reputation). I don't know what to do about motivation but if there are barriers that we can lower, please let me know. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
from those easily enough: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/ Just need to figure out the magic doohickey commands... will add to list. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
, but just at the command line. see: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/ http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/python/show_all (the Windows build is flaky for me, so the 'show_all' shows mostly Windows builds). --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

2010-04-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
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Re: [Python-Dev] Code coverage metrics

2010-04-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
working, which would be quite valuable; it's easy to get it working once, but to keep it working is a maintenance task that involves regular effort, again, in my experience. best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-31 Thread C. Titus Brown
, etc. Having them actually change the infrastructure itself seems to me like a bad idea :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:40:06AM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: I would vote for allowing student work on community infrastructure tasks. Tracker, Wiki, Web site management tools are all outdated and everybody who cares agrees that they've seen a better tools. As long as it's programming,

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-19 Thread C. Titus Brown
and bob's your uncle. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
/listinfo/soc2010-general thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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/archive%40mail

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC 2010 is on -- projects?

2010-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:13:42PM -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2010/3/18 C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu: Hi all, once again, the PSF has been accepted as a mentoring foundation for the Google Summer of Code! ??This year, we're going to emphasize python 3 porting, so please think

[Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
that there aren't any Mac OS X buildbots. I would be happy to give one or two people remote access to my Mac OS X 10.5 iMac if someone wanted to set up a buildbot and/or debug this issue further. Tarek, I can give you access immediately through your lyorn account, too. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus

Re: [Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
' somewhere in the string. Those tests are also broken but in different areas from mine. Again, if people would like shell access, just ask. best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 06:43:50PM +, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Martin v. L?wis wrote: That's not true, see http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/builders/x86 osx.5 trunk Ahh

Re: [Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-26 Thread C. Titus Brown
was the official reference, and I try to stick to that. OK, I see. Thanks! So if I can bring the scripts into concordance with that it might be valuable? --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

[Python-Dev] Building a Windows MSI for Python /trunk

2009-11-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
' misspelled as 'buold' ;) I'd love to get this build process working completely automatically and 100% correctly, too. Hat tip to Trent Nelson, who helped me figure out where the scripts are and what other things I needed... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu Index: Tools/msi/msi.py

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
the PSF should be paying for this kind of thing at all). cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:41:39PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 ?? 09:31 -0700, C. Titus Brown a ??crit : [ ... ] I'm happy to provide VMs or shell access for Windows (XP, Vista, 7); Linux ia64; Linux x86; and Mac OS X. Others have made similar offers

Re: [Python-Dev] [TIP] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
is going to be way, way better than anything anyone else could possibly do -- that's flamebait and not very friendly, in the end. Let's just say that I'm wasting my own time on it to scratch my own itch and leave it at that! thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:49:51PM +, Paul Moore wrote: 2009/10/30 C. Titus Brown c...@msu.edu: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:21:06PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Hello, Sorry for the little redundancy, I would like to underline Jean-Paul's suggestion here: Le Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14

Re: [Python-Dev] Cloud build slaves (was Re: Possible language summit topic: buildbots)

2009-10-30 Thread C. Titus Brown
to fund such a task is perhaps best discussed on the PSF members list. Sure. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
results to my own recording server at http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/xmlrpc -- would be most welcome. Once I fix the data model, code collaboration will be much more feasible, too. --- cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

2009-10-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
ago for an infrequently connected home machine. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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] BDFL pronouncement?

2009-10-09 Thread C. Titus Brown
infrastructure. Right. Is that a pronouncement? :) GvR, the self-limiting BDFL. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] thinking about 2.7 / buildbots / testing

2009-09-23 Thread C. Titus Brown
x86-based platforms people think are needed. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

Re: [Python-Dev] FWD: Front Runner Program

2009-09-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
anyone tried compiling either trunk or py3k on Win 7? Would this be useful? My recently acquired* MSDN account has led me to getting XP up and running in a VM, and I would be happy to try other Windows OSes of interest. --titus * acquired courtesy of Snakebite/Trent Nelson. -- C. Titus Brown, c

[Python-Dev] Snakebite (was: Re: py3k buildbots)

2009-06-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
getting the machines set up. It turns out delivering power and A/C to a wide variety of architectures is more complicated than it may sound ;) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr)

2009-06-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
would want -- fire and forget. Is there a good python-dev archive search mechanism (other than to google python-dev term ;) out there? Wouldn't that help? cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr)

2009-06-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
MarkMail (as Dirkjan mentioned) may have a better interface. I'll give it a try. thanks, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
Kwiatkowski. He probably has the code working somewhere. It's a nontrivial problem if you want to do it properly with VMs etc. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
and one I agree with ;). cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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/archive%40mail

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
keyring package -- see http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/. The poorer one of these will probably be axed unless Tarek gives it strong support. -- --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

2009-04-10 Thread C. Titus Brown
and tkinter), Titus ? I'm considering this - more important than just dealing with the tracker issues. What, I tell you that your app is going to be accepted and we shouldn't argue about it, and you want to argue about it? ;) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

[Python-Dev] GSoC (was Re: PyDict_SetItem hook)

2009-04-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
was yesterday. The next Google gives us money to wrangle students into doing development project will probably be GHOP for highschool students, in the winter, although it has not been announced and may not happen. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

[Python-Dev] graphics maths types in python core?

2009-04-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
and stabalised for python more easily. - - Also, it's not image, or 3d format types -- since those are also a way - larger project. -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

[Python-Dev] core python tests (was: Re: PyDict_SetItem hook)

2009-04-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] More GSoC - make sure you list your projects!

2009-03-25 Thread C. Titus Brown
applicants we have and how many applications are good. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ 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] GSoC: Core Python development tools

2009-03-23 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:26:54PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: - C. Titus Brown wrote: - On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:30:01PM -0300, Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote: - I do think you should be prepared for pushback from python-dev on any - such ideas ;). Don't get too ambitious about writing up *your

Re: [Python-Dev] GSoC: Core Python development tools

2009-03-22 Thread C. Titus Brown
. Mind you, ultimately the people doing the work should make the decisions, but input from python-dev is usually pretty useful even when it's contradictory! cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-22 Thread C. Titus Brown
. I know that zope has done some good doctest stuff, for example; the 'testing-in-python' list would be a good place to go for finding out more. Note, you don't have to offer to be the mentor to post it, but it would help ;) cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu

Re: [Python-Dev] [snakebite] Re: snakebite for GSoC?

2009-03-20 Thread C. Titus Brown
on it over the summer, so continuing it in various ways could be a GSoC project. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

2009-03-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
to add to unittest would be to want to give it to a student. I think a student would probably not be willing or able to fight the battles necessary to get his/her changes into the core... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread C. Titus Brown
they can reach that goal. Does anyone smell a few GSoC projects? (And maybe GHOP if Google decides to run it again; no word yet.) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Using Cython for standard library?

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
? cheers, --titus [0] Which is to say: a variety of reasons, many of which are obviously arguable, otherwise the Pyrex maintainer would have quit maintaining Pyrex :). But let's not go into them! -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
strongly considered. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for VCS usage scenarios

2008-11-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
my future projects. (darcs, of course, is kind of a low bar: it has some scalability issues, and it is feature-poor relative to hg and bzr in patch cherry-picking, esp.) :) --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
think that there are many reasons why having such a thing in the stdlib is really useful and I also think it's worth exploring the ramifications of taking it out... --t -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
, that's really great. I don't think the convenience of batteries *included* should be underestimated. --t -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:01:35AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: - At 7:37 AM -0700 9/4/08, C. Titus Brown wrote: - On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: - ... - - Shipping an application to end users is a different problem. Such packages - - should include a private copy

Re: [Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-04 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - Hash: SHA1 - - C. Titus Brown wrote: - Since I/we want to distribute pygr to end-users, this is really not a - pleasant prospect. Also often the installation of Python itself goes - much more

[Python-Dev] bsddb alternative (was Re: [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0)

2008-09-03 Thread C. Titus Brown
. sqlite could be one choice, but I haven't used it much yet, so I don't know. thanks, --titus [0] Python graph database for bioinformatics, http://code.google.com/p/pygr -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
the current API uninspiring but ok, and those who absolutely hate it. Has anyone said that they *love* the current unittest API with all of its boilerplate? If not, then I think that says something, no? --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:15:29PM -0700, C. Titus Brown wrote: - At this point I might suggest taking a look at the nose and py.test - discovery rules and writing a simple test discovery system to find - wrap 'test_' functions/classes and doctests in a unittest wrapper. - - Many people use nose

Re: [Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement)

2008-07-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
the discover_tests function, e.g. python -m unittest [directory [filter]] or some such... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names and classes in the `unittest` module (updated 2008-07-15)

2008-07-15 Thread C. Titus Brown
tests. Tests should be as simple as possible, and no simpler. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

2008-07-14 Thread C. Titus Brown
, for those interested in the variety of mock libraries... cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Python-Dev] Python FAQ: Why doesn't Python have a with statement?

2008-06-19 Thread C. Titus Brown
that important to DSLs? Or is it just the lack of parens?? --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python

Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of pyprocessing module to standard lib.

2008-05-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
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Re: [Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 54, Issue 57

2008-01-16 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:12:52AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: - Bill Janssen writes: - ~/Library/ is a Mac OS X thing. - -Bill Sure, but it's clearly where this should be on an OS X system, by -Bill default. - -[etc.] - - [tocatta and fugue ad lib] - -

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:48:25PM -0200, Facundo Batista wrote: - 2008/1/3, Titus Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - - What needs to be done with 2.6? I'm happy to review patches, although - even were commit access on offer I'm too scatterbrained to do a good job - of it. - - We have 109 patches

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote: - On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: - My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is - mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much - on 2.6. - - For those of us still

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
- Incidentally, I'm planning to set up an SVK repos containing the GHOP - doc patches; that way they can stay sync'ed with 2.6 work. I'd be happy - to do the same thing with reviewed-and-probably-OK patches, although I - don't know if repository proliferation is a generally good idea ;). - -

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: - Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: - You don't put the bar high for newbies on the Python project eh? :) - - I am assumign that most of those contributions code-wise need a fair amount of - knowledge of Python's internals?

Re: [Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

2008-01-03 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Joseph Armbruster wrote: - Having a core mentor would be great but do they really have time for - that? I've been lucky at finding people in #python / #python-dev) that can - answer development inquiries (or at least verify something is or is not a -

[Python-Dev] Converting tests to unittest/doctest?

2007-12-21 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, a bit of grep'ping and personal examination discovered the following tests in trunk/ that could be converted to unittest or doctests. Any thoughts, pro or con? (I understand from Brett that the goal is to eradicate old-style tests, by which I think he means tests that do not use

Re: [Python-Dev] Converting tests to unittest/doctest?

2007-12-21 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Quentin Gallet-Gilles wrote: - (oops, realized I didn't send it to the list, just to Titus) - - I remember that it was one of the tasks at the Python Sprint at Google last - summer, so I guess this is a good idea (for GHOP, right ?) Yep! - From what

Re: [Python-Dev] Spurious Buildbot Reports

2007-12-19 Thread Titus Brown
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:58:35PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: - On Dec 19, 2007 4:33 PM, Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The bots are kicking-off so many false alarms that it is becoming difficult to tell whether a check-in genuinely broke a build. - - At the root of the problem

Re: [Python-Dev] Split up the c-api documentation in smaller files?

2007-12-07 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:24:04AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote: - Christian Heimes wrote: - Good afternoon everybody! - - The new C API documentation contains some large files: - - 105K abstract.html - 300K concrete.html - 183K newtypes.html - - The concrete.html takes noticeable time to

[Python-Dev] Memory benchmarking?

2007-11-29 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, is there a good, or standard memory benchmarking system for Python? pybench doesn't return significantly different results when Python 2.6 is compiled with pymalloc and without pymalloc. Thinking on it, I'm not too surprised -- pybench probably benchmarks a lot of stuff -- but some

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Google Highly Open Participation Contest

2007-11-27 Thread Titus Brown
detailed and specific way, we'd love to have them. Here are the new task guidelines: http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/NewTaskGuidelines and I'm happy to write up the tasks if people send me good ideas. cheers, --titus - Forwarded message from Titus Brown

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-24 Thread Titus Brown
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:23:06AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: - On Nov 24, 2007 6:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Thanks, Titus. Both the doctest and trace tests pass with your change. - Checked back in. I didn't run the full test suite, as test_sqlite causes a - bus error on my Mac

Re: [Python-Dev] test_doctest failing

2007-11-23 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:32:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - - Brett Looks like Skip's r59137 fix for working with tracing has led to - Brett test_doctest to be broken on 2.5 and the trunk (at least - Brett according to the buildbots). Can someone either revert the -

Re: [Python-Dev] Python developers are in demand

2007-10-25 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote: - I noticed at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that - several major universities in the US are starting to offer intro (CS1) - courses based on Python, among them: - Georgia Tech - CMU - Bryn Mawr It's been

Re: [Python-Dev] Windows buildbot (Was: buildbot failure in x86 W2k trunk)

2007-05-23 Thread Titus Brown
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:08:52PM -0700, Trent Mick wrote: - Thomas Heller wrote: - Are there others that can provide a Windows buildbot? It would probably - be good to have two -- and a WinXP one would be good. - - How much work is it to set one up, and to maintain it? Maybe I can offer

Re: [Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

2007-05-22 Thread Titus Brown
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:45:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - - You at least take away a common excuse for lack of contributions. - True whiners will just come up with new ones (e.g., the - documentation isn't available in Sanskrit yet or the dog ate my - changes before

Re: [Python-Dev] Adventures with x64, VS7 and VS8 on Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Titus Brown
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:32:42AM +0200, Martin v. L?wis wrote: - Addressing only the issues of PCBuild8 and 64-bit architectures, I - have tried to establish free buildbot support for the 64-bit - architectures without any real success. - - Should the PSF be considering paying for

Re: [Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus()

2007-03-23 Thread Titus Brown
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:30:37AM -0600, Steven Bethard wrote: - On 3/23/07, Hrvoje Nik??i?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:38 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: - Sounds good to me. In 3.0 we should probably not have os.popen*(), nor - the popen2 module at all, and do

Re: [Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus()

2007-03-22 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, I posted about adding 'get_output', 'get_status_output', and 'get_status_output_errors' to subprocess here, http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/mar-07/replacing-commands-with-subprocess and got some interesting responses. Briefly, my original proposal was to add these three functions:

Re: [Python-Dev] deprecate commands.getstatus()

2007-03-22 Thread Titus Brown
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:34:46PM +, Michael Foord wrote: - Guido van Rossum wrote: - Sure. os.fork() and the os.exec*() family can stay. But os.spawn*(), - that abomination invented by Microsoft? I also hear no opposition - against killign os.system() and os.popen() - - Except that

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