[issue40235] confusing documentation for IOBase.__exit__

2020-04-21 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Possibly the best io module example I've found https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/_compression.py -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue40

[issue40235] confusing documentation for IOBase.__exit__

2020-04-11 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Thanks, I'm sorry I didn't save when I was having my strange problem. The io module is still practically undocumented. It should have examples subclasses for each class, perhaps a link to the PEP and a link to a Python implementation of the module

[issue36129] io documentation unclear about flush() and close() semantics for wrapped streams

2020-04-08 Thread Daniel Holth
Change by Daniel Holth : -- nosy: +dholth ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue36129> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue40233] Awkward to set compression on writeable ZipFile.open()

2020-04-08 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: My mistake. It honors ZipInfo if passed. -- stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/i

[issue40235] confusing documentation for IOBase.__exit__

2020-04-08 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth : The io documentation says: IOBase is also a context manager and therefore supports the with statement. In this example, file is closed after the with statement’s suite is finished—even if an exception occurs: with open('spam.txt', 'w') as file

[issue40233] Awkward to set compression on writeable ZipFile.open()

2020-04-08 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth : It looks like this is the current API to set compression at the individual file level when writing with ZipFile.open() z.compression = zipfile.ZIP_STORED data_writer = z.open(zip_info or filename, "w") z.compression = saved

[issue27499] PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN conflicts with Py_LIMITED_API

2016-07-12 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Oh, I can avoid this problem by setting Py_LIMITED_API to 0x3030 or greater. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue27499] PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN conflicts with Py_LIMITED_API

2016-07-12 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Here it is. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-November/015344.html On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:29, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 4:05 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> I just noticed that the Python 3 C API

[issue27499] PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN conflicts with Py_LIMITED_API

2016-07-12 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: When compiling my cryptacular extension https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cryptacular I noticed -DPy_LIMITED_API -DPY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN creates a binary that does not actually use the limited api. This causes segfaults on Linux but does not appear to cause problems

[issue25435] Wrong function calls and referring to not removed concepts in descriptor HowTo (documentation)

2016-07-08 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: This bit me also. Is there other documentation for how many arguments MethodType() should take? -- nosy: +dholth ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-24 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.6/Lib/zipfile.py#l331 Python 2.6 zipfile supports utf8 properly. It has only improved since then. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-23 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: The documentation should read The ZIP file format supports Unicode filenames. If you have unicode filenames, zipfile will encode them to and from utf-8 internally, but if you pass bytes filenames to write() then they will be stored without a specified encoding

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-23 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: " ... zipfile will encode them to and from utf-8 internally, and the encoding is marked in a standard flag inside the archive member." -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.py

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-23 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: The current documentation says "Note There is no official file name encoding for ZIP files. If you have unicode file names, you must convert them to byte strings in your desired encoding before passing them to write(). WinZip interprets all file

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-21 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: This is a simple documentation bug about the ZIP file format supporting utf-8 and 'no encoding' filenames depending on whether two bits are set in a flag inside the archive member. Bug 10614 appears to be a different issue about out-of-band encoding information

[issue27344] zipfile *does* support utf-8 filenames

2016-06-17 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: The zipfile documentation says "There is no official file name encoding for ZIP files." However ZIP and zipfile supports utf-8 filenames; this has been true for a long time, at least since Python 2.7. -- assignee: docs@python components: Doc

[issue18373] let code force str(bytes) to raise an exception

2016-06-17 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: What if we changed it so that Python code could only disable str_bytes() process-wide, editing the original flag? Would that be fatal to debuggers and the repl? -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>

[issue18373] let code force str(bytes) to raise an exception

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Then you prefer the older three year old patch that adds to pystate.h ? http://bugs.python.org/review/18373/#ps8545 I remember not being happy with how complicated it turned out, and perhaps having problems with not wanting the "warn once" behavior? It

[issue18373] let code force str(bytes) to raise an exception

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: My reasoning was that str(bytes) would normally be called so rarely that who cares. On Fri, May 27, 2016, at 09:02 AM, STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor added the comment: > > strbytes.patch of #27134: adding calls to > PyThre

[issue18373] let code force str(bytes) to raise an exception

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Better to continue discussion here. Attached is my second, simpler version of the feature. A context manager is included: with string.StrBytesRaises(): str(b'bytes') # raises an exception In a normal program, you might just set the flag to True

[issue27134] allow str(bytes) raises an exception to be controlled programmatically

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Continuing discussion in the older bug -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth <dho...@fastmail.fm>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file30787/byteswarningflag.patch ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2016-05-26 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Superceded by http://bugs.python.org/issue27134 , a simpler solution providing a with StrBytesRaises(): context manager. -- ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue27134] allow str(bytes) raises an exception to be controlled programmatically

2016-05-26 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: When I discovered str(b'bytes') in my Python 3 program was causing errors to be serialized to disk, I was unhappy. It turns out there is a command line option to turn it off, but the vulnerable serialization code is not going to be able to set that argument

[issue23491] PEP 441 - Improving Python Zip Application Support

2015-02-26 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: On Thu, Feb 26, 2015, at 09:41 AM, Paul Moore wrote: Paul Moore added the comment: Following on from that, the code to make an archive executable is currently os.chmod(new_archive, os.stat(new_archive).st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC) Should I use

[issue23491] PEP 441 - Improving Python Zip Application Support

2015-02-26 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Create and open executable file respecting the Unix user's umask: os.fdopen(os.open(filename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR), rw) On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 02:34 PM, Paul Moore wrote: Paul Moore added the comment: Thanks, I'll fix for the next iteration of the patch

[issue23491] PEP 441 - Improving Python Zip Application Support

2015-02-24 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Spelling raise PackError(Cannot spacify entry point if the source has __main__.py) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue23491

[issue22496] urllib2 fails against IIS (urllib2 can't parse 401 reply www-authenticate headers)

2014-09-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: I am not the copyright holder, I only maintain the pypi package for python-ntlm. I might have 10 lines of my own code in the whole package. If running on Windows it would be great to have out of the box native windows NTLM which can be done somehow with the win32

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2014-06-02 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: As an aside, why wouldn't I run my program with -bb? One reason is that the following code won't work on Linux: #!/usr/bin/env python -bb Instead of passing -bb to Python, it will look for an executable called python -bb, and it's not likely to find

[issue20531] TypeError in e-mail.parser when non-ASCII is present

2014-02-06 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: In bdist_wheel I've gone to some lengths to re-use the email module to parse and generate RFC822 inspired documents. The output is not a valid e-mail but it is useful. It is awkward to use the email module this way. We will sidestep the issue hopefully

[issue20531] TypeError in e-mail.parser when non-ASCII is present

2014-02-06 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: We do this. https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/src/tip/wheel/pkginfo.py?at=default I appreciate the long-term goal. The policy system is really neat. We are going to json largely because the next version of the metadata is more nested. The decision had nothing

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2014-01-14 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Just mitigating the bug that -bb is not the default... -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18373

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2014-01-06 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Thanks. I guess I know who to ask now. It was just painful seeing so much import-time computation, pretty much guaranteed to happen every time Python starts up, being wasted on a feature that is rarely used. On the Raspberry Pi the majority of the import time

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2014-01-03 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Fixed in http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/536a2cf5f1d2 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18515

[issue18585] Add a text truncation function

2014-01-02 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Previous changeset was meant for #18515 -- nosy: +dholth ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18585

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2013-09-15 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: I am withdrawing zipfile-no-crc32.patch. It did not work correctly. zdlazy.patch should go in. It avoids creating the rarely-needed crc32 table until the first time it is needed, saving some memory and the majority of time needed to import the module

[issue18532] hashlib.HASH objects should officially expose the hash name

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: fwiw pypy 2 supports HASH.name but the older 1.9 (still part of some Linux distributions) did not. -- nosy: +dholth ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18532

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e7305517260b/Lib/zipfile.py#l460 I noticed this table taking up time on import. I'd guess that it pre-dates zlib.crc32 which is imported at the top of the file. I also suspect that most of the time this table isn't even used

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Someone who has a better understanding of zipfile may be able to get zlib.crc32(bytes[ch], running_crc) to work correctly. This patch that passes the zipfile tests generates the crctable only when _ZipDecrypter() is instantiated. -- Added file: http

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: It takes 706 microseconds. On my machine %timeit import sys; del sys.modules['zipfile']; import zipfile import zipfile takes 2.51 ms without the patch and 1.7 ms with the patch. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: Serhiy Storchaka

[issue18515] zipfile._ZipDecryptor generates wasteful crc32 table on import

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: I tried it on a raspberry pi. zipfile takes 36 ms to import and 10 ms if it does not generate the crctable. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18515

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2013-07-18 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 04:22 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't know why your patch is putting this in the thread state, though... If you have multiple threads one thread might want exceptions when str(bytes

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2013-07-18 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Python 3 is supposed to make it easier to do Unicode correctly. str(bytes) does not. I felt strongly enough about that to write this patch. With this feature my library can have control in a way that is much more practical than ensuring a particular flag has

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: You would just enable this during your serialization code, and if (perhaps someone is calling your library and passing it the wrong type) they would be guarded against this common error. On Sat, Jul 6, 2013, at 12:15 AM, R. David Murray wrote: R. David Murray

[issue18373] implement sys.get/setbyteswarningflag()

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: This patch lets the user get/set the byteswarningflag() to control whether warnings are emitted at runtime (pursuant to the configuration of the warnings module, of course). The idea is that a user who is concerned with interacting with bytes correctly would

[issue18354] http://www.python.org/doc/ has outdated note

2013-07-03 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: Please remove the note. Note A new documentation project, which will be merged into the Python documentation soon, covers creating, installing and distributing Python packages: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging (creating and distributing Python

[issue16104] Use multiprocessing in compileall script

2012-10-01 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth: compileall would benefit approximately linearly from additional CPU cores. There should be an option. The noisy output would have to change. Right now it prints compiling and then done synchronously with doing the actual work. -- messages: 171744

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Sorry, I won't be able to get around to this any time soon. The patch to fix this bug (in the CPython3 source code) is too intertwined with the other distutils2 fixes. Anyone is welcome to fish for it in my bitbucket. -- status: open - languishing

[issue15468] Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()

2012-08-01 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: re-tweak treatment of md5 in hashlib docs (the SHA-2 family is currently recommended by http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/secure_hashing.html) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26648/hashlib.patch

[issue15468] Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()

2012-07-30 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth added the comment: Taking a second look it is pretty good. The only other thing that might be worth mentioning explicitly is that the always present hashes don't actually use OpenSSL. Constructors for hash algorithms that are always present in this module are md5(), sha1

[issue9216] FIPS support for hashlib

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: While you are at it, can you edit the docs to put md5() at the bottom of the page at the back of the list in a 2-point font and raise a DeprecationWarning(This function is totally lame, and it is slower than SHA-3, get with the program

[issue15468] Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: md5() has been obsolete since 1996. It has no place as the first item in hashlib's list of guaranteed to be available hashes, and it doesn't work when Python has been compiled to be FIPS-compliant. The documentation should be edited to make

[issue15468] Edit docs to hide hashlib.md5()

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Not to mention its continued popularity as a password hash, surpassed only by double-rot13. You've convinced me, it is reasonable to continue to support, nay, recommend md5 for the non-FIPS world. This hash function continues to have raving

[issue11624] distutils should support a custom list of exported symbols for Windows dlls.

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: I must have missed the export_symbols keyword argument to Extension(), or it was added. -- resolution: - invalid status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-07-03 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: I appreciate it. I had trouble using the patch system after that. I will see whether I can generate a better one. Daniel Holth On Jul 3, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Éric Araujo rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Yes, but I had some trouble attaching a good patch to the issue tracker itself. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012, at 02:28 PM, David Barnett wrote: David Barnett davidbarne...@gmail.com added the comment: Is this ready and just waiting to be merged

[issue8084] pep-0370 on osx duplicates existing functionality

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Please mention Apple's OS X Python behavior in the PEP. The Python that comes with OS X Lion doesn't seem to follow the PEP regarding ~/.local ; this deserves a mention. -- nosy: +dholth ___ Python

[issue14921] New trove classifier for simple printers of nested lists

2012-05-25 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: Based on the supply, there is a tremendous demand for printers of nested lists (as long as they are not too complicated). But how will I find and compare the available options? Add a trove classifier Topic :: Nested Lists to ease

[issue14921] New trove classifier for simple printers of nested lists

2012-05-25 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: -- resolution: - postponed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14921

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-19 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Looks like it can go into [build_ext] but not per-extension -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14843

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-19 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: A tuple of (macro, '1') seems to do the trick define_macros has to be space-separated, not comma-separated -- hgrepos: +127 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-19 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25642/65c3af0d283b.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14843

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-19 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file25642/65c3af0d283b.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14843

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Fixed closure mistake in remote tip -- hgrepos: +126 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11880

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25623/50a0da981b7e.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11880

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: -- assignee: eric.araujo components: Distutils2 nosy: alexis, dholth, eric.araujo, tarek priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg type: enhancement versions: Python 3.3

[issue14843] support define_macros / undef_macros in setup.cfg

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: from build_ext.py: # XXX not honouring 'define_macros' or 'undef_macros' -- the # CCompiler API needs to change to accommodate this, and I # want to do one thing at a time

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: branch updated with regression test (add an entry_points.txt to test_command_install_data.py) and get_distinfo_file() can get any file inside the .dist-info directory. -- ___ Python tracker rep

[issue11880] add a {dist-info} category to distutils2

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Implemented in https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cpython/changeset/c493a5179621 Advice on writing the unit test would be appreciated. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org

[issue14518] Add bcrypt $2a$ to crypt.py

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: The prefix for bcrypt '$2a$' is supported on many systems and could be added to crypt.py Could the documentation mention the available rounds parameter for most of these newer hashes? And that Unicode strings are automatically converted

[issue14518] Add bcrypt $2a$ to crypt.py

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Holth
Changes by Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: -- components: +Library (Lib) versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14518

[issue12022] AttributeError should report the same details when raised by lookup_special() as when raised in the REPL

2011-05-07 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Python should explain AttributeError in the same way when it's raised by the interpreter. The with: statement below should raise the second AttributeError, not the first. import transaction with transaction: pass AttributeError: __exit__

[issue12022] AttributeError should report the same details when raised by lookup_special() as when raised in the REPL

2011-05-07 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: Thank you Benjamin for following up on this issue -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue12022

[issue12022] 'transaction' module-as-context-manager thwarted by Python 2.7.1

2011-05-06 Thread Daniel Holth
New submission from Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm: How much do we care about special method lookup? Python recently bypasses __getattr__ entirely when looking up context managers. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-May/089535.html Could this be the reason that ZODB's

[issue11921] distutils2 should be able to compile an Extension based on the Python implementation version

2011-04-29 Thread Daniel Holth
Daniel Holth dho...@fastmail.fm added the comment: from docs.python.org: platform.python_implementation() Returns a string identifying the Python implementation. Possible return values are: ‘CPython’, ‘IronPython’, ‘Jython’. New in version 2.6. ... and it seems pypy identifies

PKG-INFO encoding?

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Holth
.encode('utf-8') in setup.py) Thanks, Daniel Holth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list