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Feedback on meta-tracker open issues, as well as new RFEs and
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This use case is addressed by my up-coming PEP, currently in draft
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Meanwhile, the 'register' command accepts Unicode, but is broken in
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Unfortunately, this isn't fixable until there's a new 2.5.x release.
For previous Python versions, both
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Is there an open bug tracker issue with more information?
Answer: URL:http://bugs.python.org/issue2562. Apparently the issue
is resolved URL:http://bugs.python.org/msg72385 for Python 2.6. I
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Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes:
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I watched [the Google Wave presentation] too. It appears to be
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wave. That's far from universal in the Python community, let alone
the internet at large.
Even
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When I discuss distutils, I don't call it a program at all; it's a
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The functionality you often discuss around this tool would be best
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distutils functionality.
Sloppy use of “in fact
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You omit the important part: adding a new thing to Python *so long
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Let's say I make a branch of the hg repo, myself and a few others work
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I ask because I haven't seen any messages reach the
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Charles-François Natali neolo...@free.fr writes:
[…] using rename() on POSIX systems and MoveFileEx() on Windows
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list of possible features for 3.3 as specified by PEP 398:
Candidate PEPs:
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That would better be written (preferring PEP 8 names)
fail_unless_equal.
Which is still a double negative (fail and unless are both
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Hmm, not to this native-English
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The problem is, that makes it quite inconsistent with other not
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Use new-style classes throughout
The following classes will inherit explicitly from the built-in
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:Version: 0.0
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The `unittest` module will gain the following attribute, to set the
default metaclass for classes in the module and thus make all classes
in the module part of the new-style
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Line 94-95 in unittest.py (trunk):
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Hmm, you're right; I see that in Python 2.5.2
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Removal of ``assert*`` names
There is no overwhelming consensus on whether to remove the
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