Re: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Fred Drake
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote: Eric Price Eric Price was an intern at CNRI; I think it's safe to remove him from the list, as I've not seen anything from him in a *long* time. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.fdrake at acm.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On Apr 8, 2005 9:31 AM, Fred Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote: Eric Price Eric Price was an intern at CNRI; I think it's safe to remove him from the list, as I've not seen anything from him in a *long* time. Eric Price did some of

[Python-Dev] Security capabilities in Python

2005-04-08 Thread Eyal Lotem
I would like to experiment with security based on Python references as security capabilities. Unfortunatly, there are several problems that make Python references invalid as capabilities: * There is no way to create secure proxies because there are no private attributes. * Lots of Python objects

Re: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Fred Drake
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:53, Jeremy Hylton wrote: Eric Price did some of the work on the decimal package, which was only two summers ago. He wasn't an intern at CNRI. A different Eric Price, then. Mea culpa. (Or am I misremembering the intern's name? Hmm.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake,

RE: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote: Ben Gertzfield Ben did a lot of work on the i18n parts of the email package. I haven't heard from him in quite a while. Ken Manheimer Ken's still around. I'll send you his current email address in a separate (pvt) message. -Barry

RE: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Raymond Hettinger] Does anyone know what has become of the following developers and perhaps have their current email addresses? [Tim Peters] How about we exploit that if someone is a Python developer on SF, they necessarily have an SF email address ($(SFNAME)@users.sourceforge.net, like

RE: [Python-Dev] Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Skip Montanaro
Raymond Does anyone know what has become of ... Raymond Charles G Waldman I'd scratch Charles from the list. I work at the same company he did. Nobody here has been in touch with him for over a year. Several of us have tried to get ahold of him but to no avail. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] threading (GilState) question

2005-04-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Under Limitations and Exclusions it specifically disowns responsibility for worrying about whether Py_Initialize() and PyEval_InitThreads() have been called: [snip quote] This suggests that I should call PyEval_InitThreads() in initreadline(), which seems daft. fwiw, Modules/_bsddb.c

[Python-Dev] Re: Developer list update

2005-04-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Raymond Hettinger wrote: I used those addresses and sent notes to everyone who hasn't made a recent checkin. where recent obviously was defined as after 2.4 for checkins, and last week for tracker activities. python-dev was a lot more fun in the old days. /F

[Python-Dev] marshal / unmarshal

2005-04-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
What should marshal / unmarshal do with floating point NaNs (the case we are worrying about is Infinity) ? The current behavior is not perfect. Michael Spencer chased down a supposed Idle problem to (on Win2k): marshal.dumps(1e1) == 'f\x061.#INF' marshal.loads('f\x061.#INF') == 1.0

[Python-Dev] Re: marshal / unmarshal

2005-04-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Scott David Daniels wrote: What should marshal / unmarshal do with floating point NaNs (the case we are worrying about is Infinity) ? The current behavior is not perfect. Michael Spencer chased down a supposed Idle problem to (on Win2k): marshal.dumps(1e1) == 'f\x061.#INF'

Re: [Python-Dev] marshal / unmarshal

2005-04-08 Thread Tim Peters
[Scott David Daniels] What should marshal / unmarshal do with floating point NaNs (the case we are worrying about is Infinity) ? The current behavior is not perfect. All Python behavior in the presence of a NaN, infinity, or signed zero is a platform-dependent accident. This is because C89

[Python-Dev] Re: hierarchicial named groups extension to the re library

2005-04-08 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (ie. the re library only returns the ~last~ match for named groups - not a list of ~all~ the matches for the named groups. And the hierarchy of those named groups is non-existant in the flat dictionary of matches that results. ) are you 100% sure that this can be