Re: [Python-ideas] Enhancing Zipapp

2020-01-07 Thread Brett Cannon
Thanks for the ideas, Abdur-Rahmaan! Some feedback below. On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:35 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: draft simplified > > Abstract > == > > This extracts aims at proposing enhancements to the generated zipapp > executable > > Rationale > ==

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

2014-12-11 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 3:14:42 PM Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > I disagree. I know there's a huge focus on The Big Libraries (and > wholesale > > migration is all but impossible without them), but the long tail of > > libraries is still incredibl

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

2013-09-09 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm chuffed to announce the > second alpha release of Python 3.4. > > This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for > production settings. > > Python 3.4 includes a range of improve

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:57, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? > > > > Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is > everyone > > on 2.6+ nowadays

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages

2009-04-03 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 13:15, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Note that there is no such thing as a "defining namespace package" -- > > namespace package contents are symmetrical peers. > > With the PEP, a "defining package" becomes possible - at most one > portion can define an __init__.py. > > I k

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Fred Drake wrote: > > 2.4.5 won't build for me from the svn checkout on Mac OS X 10.5.2: > > > Neither does 2.3.7 now that I've tried that: > > gcc -u __dummy -u _PyMac_Error -framework System -f

Call for volunteers to help maintain bugs.python.org's issue tracker

2008-02-19 Thread Brett Cannon
ready and those that will in the future! -Brett Cannon Chairman, PSF infrastructure committee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Announcing the Python core sprint at PyCon 2008

2008-01-29 Thread Brett Cannon
r the sprint by the end of February as an email on what you need to do beforehand will be sent at that time based on the sprint sign-up page. And if you are not attending PyCon, we will most likely have several people in attendance on IRC, thus allowing even people not at PyCon to participate! -

Issue tracker migration is complete

2007-08-23 Thread Brett Cannon
mailing list. And if I forgot someone, thanks to them as well. =) -Brett Cannon Chairman, PSF Infrastructure committee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Moving Python's tracker to Roundup on Aug 23rd

2007-08-20 Thread Brett Cannon
this gap to be for a few hours. But to minimize issues, please try to avoid using either SourceForge or the new issue tracker on Aug 23rd if you can. -Brett Cannon Chairman, PSF Infrastructure committee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

2006-10-20 Thread Brett Cannon
At the beginning of the month the PSF Infrastructure committee announced that we had reached the decision that JIRA was our recommendation for the next issue tracker for Python development.  Realizing, though, that it was a tough call between JIRA and Roundup we said that we would be willing to swi

Four issue trackers submitted for Infrastructue Committee's tracker search

2006-08-07 Thread Brett Cannon
e who took the time and effort to set up a test tracker to help improve the development of Python.- Brett Cannon  Chairman, PSF Infrastructure Committee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

About a month until PSF call for test trackers closes!

2006-07-06 Thread Brett Cannon
Back at the beginning of June, the Python Software Foundation's Infrastructure committee sent out an email requesting people to help us find a replacement tracker for SourceForge (the original announcement can be found at http://wiki.python.org/moin/CallForTrackers ).  We asked that people put tes

Request for trackers to evaluate as SF replacement for Python development

2006-06-06 Thread Brett Cannon
frastructure at python.org .- Brett Cannon  Chairman, Python Software Foundation Infrastructure committee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ordered sets operations on lists..

2006-02-12 Thread Brett Cannon
On 2/12/06, Felipe Almeida Lessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Dom, 2006-02-12 às 23:15 -0500, Steve Holden escreveu: > > Given that Python 2.4 doesn't even perform simple constant folding for > > arithmetic expressions > > [snip] > > May I ask why doesn't it perform such optimization? Is there a

Re: [Python-Dev] python optimization

2005-09-15 Thread Brett Cannon
On 9/15/05, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use cpython. I'm accustomed (from c++/gcc) to a style of coding that is > highly readable, making the assumption that the compiler will do good > things to optimize the code despite the style in which it's written. For > example, I assume con