The next major Python version will be Python 8

2016-03-31 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Python 3 becomes more and more popular and is close to a dangerous point where it can become popular that Python 2. The PSF decided that it's time to elaborate a new secret plan to ensure that Python users suffer again with a new major release breaking all their legacy code. The PSF is happy

The next major Python version will be Python 8

2016-03-31 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Python 3 becomes more and more popular and is close to a dangerous point where it can become popular that Python 2. The PSF decided that it's time to elaborate a new secret plan to ensure that Python users suffer again with a new major release breaking all their legacy code. The PSF is happy

Re: [Python-ideas] How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

2016-02-24 Thread Victor Stinner
See also Doug Hellmann article on asyncio, from its serie of "Python 3 Module of the Week" articles: https://pymotw.com/3/asyncio/index.html Victor 2016-02-23 22:25 GMT+01:00 Joao S. O. Bueno : > Today I also stumbled on this helpful "essay" from Brett Cannon about > the

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.x and 3.x use survey, 2014 edition

2014-12-11 Thread Victor Stinner
2014-12-11 15:47 GMT+01:00 Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com: I still think the only *real* obstacle remains the lack of important packages such as twisted, gevent and pika which haven't been ported yet. twisted core works on python 3, right now. Contribute to Twisted if you want to port

Re: [python-committers] [RELEASE] Python 3.4.2rc1 is now available

2014-09-22 Thread Victor Stinner
Someone broke test_pydoc. Example: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20FreeBSD%2010.0%203.4/builds/481/steps/test/logs/stdio Victor 2014-09-22 16:15 GMT+02:00 Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org: On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.4 release team, I'm

Re: [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.1

2014-05-19 Thread Victor Stinner
It's not easy to find the changelog. I found this page: https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html Victor 2014-05-19 8:00 GMT+02:00 Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org: On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.4 release team, I'm pleased to announce the

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1

2014-02-11 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, It would be nice to give also the link to the whole changelog in your emails and on the website: http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html Congrats for your RC1 release :-) It's always hard to make developers stop addings new minor changes before the final version :-) Victor

Re: [Python-ideas] Unicode stdin/stdout

2013-11-18 Thread Victor Stinner
Why do you need to force the UTF-8 encoding? Your locale is not correctly configured? It's better to set PYTHONIOENCODING rather than replacing sys.stdout/stderr at runtime. There is an open issue to add a TextIOWrapper.set_encoding() method: http://bugs.python.org/issue15216 Victor --

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7.6

2013-11-10 Thread Victor Stinner
2013/11/10 Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org: All the changes in Python 2.7.6 are described in full detail in the Misc/NEWS file of the source tarball. You can also view online at http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/99d03261c1ba/Misc/NEWS - Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's

Re: [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0a2

2013-09-09 Thread Victor Stinner
2013/9/9 Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org: Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Major new features and changes in the 3.4 release series so far include: * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited

Re: [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0a2

2013-09-09 Thread Victor Stinner
2013/9/9 Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net: Le Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:30:50 +0200, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.com a écrit : 2013/9/9 Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org: Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes

pytracemalloc 0.7: new tool to track memory leaks in Python

2013-03-08 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Wyplay is proud to announce the release of a new tool to track Python memory allocations: pytracemalloc. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytracemalloc https://github.com/wyplay/pytracemalloc pytracemalloc provides the following information: - Allocated size and number of allocations per file,

Re: os.path.realpath(path) bug on win7 ?

2013-01-06 Thread Victor Stinner
It looks like the following issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue14094 Victor Le 6 janv. 2013 07:59, iMath 2281570...@qq.com a écrit : os.path.realpath(path) bug on win7 ? Temp.link is a Symbolic link Its target location is C:\test\test1 But

Re: how to insert random error in a programming

2012-10-15 Thread Victor Stinner
Try fuzzing. Examples: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fusil/ http://peachfuzzer.com/ Victor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pysandbox 1.5 released

2012-03-20 Thread Victor Stinner
pysandbox is a Python sandbox. By default, untrusted code executed in the sandbox cannot modify the environment (write a file, use print or import a module). But you can configure the sandbox to choose exactly which features are allowed or not, e.g. import sys module and read /etc/issue file.

faulthandler 2.0

2011-05-14 Thread Victor Stinner
helped with tracking down race conditions in Python buildbots. I hope that it will also help you in your programs. Victor Stinner aka haypo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

Release of faulthandler 1.4

2011-02-15 Thread Victor Stinner
://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler/ Victor Stinner aka haypo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

Release of faulthandler 1.4

2011-02-14 Thread Victor Stinner
://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler/ Victor Stinner aka haypo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

faulthandler 1.0: display the Python backtrace on a crash

2010-12-24 Thread Victor Stinner
: Segmentation fault Traceback (most recent call first): File stdin, line 1 in module Segmentation fault Victor Stinner -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

pysandbox 1.0: a new sandbox for Python

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Stinner
pysandbox is a Python sandbox. By default, untrusted code executed in the sandbox cannot modify the environment (write a file, use print or import a module). But you can configure the sandbox to choose exactly which features are allowed or not, eg. import sys module and read /etc/ issue file.

Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-03-02 Thread Victor Stinner
object space. -- Victor Stinner http://www.haypocalc.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-03-02 Thread Victor Stinner
Le dimanche 28 février 2010 17:43:07, Victor Stinner a écrit : Yes, Google AppEngine has its Python sandbox and the source code is available online. I don't know the license. I found 7 vulnerabilities in 1 hour :-) I contacted Google security team. (...) There are other differences, but I

Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-02-28 Thread Victor Stinner
on blacklists, whereas RestrictedPython is only based on whitelists. -- Victor Stinner http://www.haypocalc.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-02-26 Thread Victor Stinner
process, that's all. I tested it under Linux with Python 2.5 and 2.6. The portage to Python3 is not done yet (is someone motivated to write a patch? :-)). -- Victor Stinner http://www.haypocalc.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-02-26 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 26 février 2010 13:29:33, Victor Stinner a écrit : pysandbox is a new Python sandbox project ... I just forget to explain how to download it. Website: http://github.com/haypo/pysandbox/ Download the repository using git: git clone git://github.com/haypo/pysandbox.git or git

Re: Quoting quotes

2010-02-26 Thread Victor Stinner
scanning single-quoted string Use triple simple single quotes: print '''All's Well That Ends Well''' All's Well That Ends Well -- Victor Stinner http://www.haypocalc.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Challenge: escape from the pysandbox

2010-02-26 Thread Victor Stinner
don't know this project. Do you have the URL of the project home page? Is it the safelite.py project? -- Victor Stinner http://www.haypocalc.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Publication of Hachoir project version 1.0

2007-07-19 Thread Victor Stinner
(author name, timestamp, copyright, etc.) from a picture, movie, sound, archive, etc. Another example: swf_extract.py allows to extract pictures and sounds from a SWF (Flash) document. Victor Stinner aka haypo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support