Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/07/2010 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: In article<1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, imageguy wrote: Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? A windows "Shortcut" ? Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS func

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 7/8/10 8:07 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: >> In article >> <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> imageguy wrote: >>> >>> Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >>> A windows "Shortcut" ? >> >> Just to be clear,

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: > In article > <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, > imageguy wrote: >> >>Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >>A windows "Shortcut" ? > > Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Aahz
In article <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, imageguy wrote: > >Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >A windows "Shortcut" ? Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same as a hardlink on a Unix filesystem -- it

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/07/2010 03:17, imageguy wrote: I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like the idea of a common root) and I put NTFS ha

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-07 Thread Martin v. Loewis
Am 08.07.2010 04:17, schrieb imageguy: > >> I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code >> I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. >> I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like >> the idea of a common root) and

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-07 Thread imageguy
> I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code > I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. > I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like > the idea of a common root) and I put NTFS hardlinks into my general > c:\too

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Golden
On 06/07/2010 07:06, David Bolen wrote: I tend to need multiple versions around when developing, so I keep a bunch of versions all installed in separate directories as \Python\x.y (so I only have a single root directory). With 2.7, my current box has 6 Python interpreters (2.4-3.1) installed at

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread David Bolen
Martineau writes: > Some clarification. I meant installed 2.7 on top of 2.6.x. Doing so > would have interfered with the currently installed version because I > always install Python in the same directory, one named just "Python", > to minimize the number of changes I have to make to to other par

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> Benjamin (or anyone else), do you know where I can get the Compiled > Windows Help file -- python27.chm -- for this release? I have now put that file separately on the release page. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 5:53 pm, David Robinow wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steven > D'Aprano wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > > >> I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually > >> installing the release which would wipe out any currently install

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 1:31 pm, Alexander Kapps wrote: > Martineau wrote: > > Perhaps it's hidden somewhere, but I couldn't find the .chm help file > > in the python-2.7.msi file using 7-zip, nor saw anything that looked > > like a Doc folder embedded within it -- so I doubt installing it on a > > Windows mach

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > >> I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually >> installing the release which would wipe out any currently installed >> version (I'm one of those rare people who act

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually > installing the release which would wipe out any currently installed > version (I'm one of those rare people who actually reads manuals > *before* using or installing most things

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Alexander Kapps
Martineau wrote: Perhaps it's hidden somewhere, but I couldn't find the .chm help file in the python-2.7.msi file using 7-zip, nor saw anything that looked like a Doc folder embedded within it -- so I doubt installing it on a Windows machine would work any better. I don't know much about the .

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 1:12 am, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin wrote: > > On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: > >> On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > >> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the > >> > second > >> > release ca

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin wrote: > On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: >> On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >> >> >> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second >> > release candidate of Python 2.7. >> >> > Python 2.7 will be the

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread John Machin
On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: > On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > > > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > > release candidate of Python 2.7. > > > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it > > will >

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Martineau
On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > release candidate of Python 2.7. > > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will > also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. > > 2