Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective that has become regrettably common here in recent months. I second the motion to use pish and tosh for a first level of

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/5 Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I second the motion to use pish and tosh for a first level of disagreement. I recommend the rather archaic Balderdash as the next step in the escalation of disagreement... http://bash.org/?23396 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Mensanator
On Dec 5, 12:29 pm, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective that has become regrettably common here in recent months.

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread MRAB
Mensanator wrote: On Dec 5, 12:29 pm, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective that has become regrettably common here

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread William McBrine
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:16:47 -0800, Fernando H. Sanches wrote: I agree that the tab/space thing should be changed. Would it be too hard to make the parser see if the indentation is consistent in the whole file? *Something* has changed. I had a piece of code where, without realizing it, I had

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Andreas Waldenburger: Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped to see removed from Python3 (my first request of this was years ago). I was nearly sure to see

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:49:46 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow Andreas stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's more than warnings. With properly crafted combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Andreas Waldenburger: My point is: If you mix tabs and spaces in a way that breaks code, you'll find out pretty easily, because your program will not work. - Most newbies don't know that. - Sometimes it may produce wrong results. - And even if you are an expert when you go changing a little a

Whitespace in Python (3) [was: RELEASED Python 3.0 final]

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:46:02 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Waldenburger: My point is: If you mix tabs and spaces in a way that breaks code, you'll find out pretty easily, because your program will not work. - Most newbies don't know that. - Sometimes it may produce wrong

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:49:46 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's more than warnings. With properly crafted combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code which looks like it has a certain indentation to the human observer but which looks like it has different indentation

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Terry Reedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Waldenburger: Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped to see removed from Python3 (my first request of this was years

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Fernando H. Sanches
On Dec 4, 5:45 pm, Andreas Waldenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here.     Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/     What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:16:47 -0800 (PST) Fernando H. Sanches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 4, 5:45 pm, Andreas Waldenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You get

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:09:27 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: Andreas Waldenburger: Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped to see removed from Python3 (my

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:01:55 +, je.s.te.r wrote: Fernando H. Sanches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I personally disliked most of the changes (specially the ones on map and reduce). I hope functional programming doesn't get even more hindered in future releases, because I believe these

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: comp.lang.python3k ? The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the community need not do the same. Pish and tosh. James was clearly making a funny; there's not *that*

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: comp.lang.python3k ? The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the community need not do the same. Pish and tosh. James was

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Steven D'Aprano: I think you're talking about mixed spaces/tabs in the one module. Right. My gut feeling is that you have to have a fairly unusual set of circumstances before it causes actual bugs. I don't mix tab and spaces in my code, and my editor is able to convert them, so after the

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Iain King
On Dec 4, 1:51 am, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Gerhard Häring
Iain King wrote: [...] Props. I just looked through the What's New and the change log, but I couldn't find the answer to something: has any change been made to how tabs and spaces are used as indentation? Can they still be (inadvisably) mixed in one file? Or, more extremely, has one or the

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hello, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- We will continue to support and develop both Python 3 and Python 2 for the foreseeable future, and you can safely choose either version (or both) to use in your projects. Which

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Istvan Albert
Congratulations on a fantastic work! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Roy H. Han
Hi, This is great, however, the link to the What's New page appears to be broken. http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.1.html RHH On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Congratulations on a fantastic work! --

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Roy H. Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is great, however, the link to the What's New page appears to be broken. http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.1.html replace 3.1 with 3.0 :), so it has to be:

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread greg
On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I   am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Way to go and congratulations! --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread J Kenneth King
Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Yay! Thanks for all the great work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread bearophileHUGS
Gerhard Häring: As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Why not? Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown --

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread skip
As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Daniel Why not? Because it has historically been a source of errors in a mixed development

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:30:52 -0800 Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Why not? +1 -- My real email

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Daniel Why not? Because it

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread skip
Andreas Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You Andreas get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's more than warnings. With properly crafted combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code which looks like it has a certain indentation to the human observer

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread George Sakkis
On Dec 4, 4:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     Andreas Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to not allow stuff? You     Andreas get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's more than warnings.  With properly crafted combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code which looks like it

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I would like to ask, how long will Python 2 be developed? Just for curiosity. There won't be a 2.10 release of Python. Whether that means that 2.9 will be the last one, or whether development stops earlier, remains to be seen. Regards, Martin --

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Roger Vossler
Hi, Congratulations to the Python 3.0 team!! Great! I was able to download the Python 3.0 documentation. Looks good. Any hints when the Mac OSX version of Python 3.0 will be available? Cheers, Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread James Stroud
Barry Warsaw wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. comp.lang.python3k ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ben Finney
James Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: comp.lang.python3k ? The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the community need not do the same. -- \ “People come up to me and say, ‘Emo, do people really come up | `\to you?’”

RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in

RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread alex23
On Dec 4, 11:51 am, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I   am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Thanks to you and everyone involved for your efforts! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Congratulations! I have been learning Python 2.x while paying strict attention to the 3.x [in]compatibility issue. So, I have

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ The text This is a proeuction release should probably read This is a production release. It would give a better first impression :) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ The text This is a proeuction release should probably read This is a production release. It would give a better first impression :) Fixed,

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM, alex23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 4, 11:51 am, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Thanks to you and everyone involved for your

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Dec 3, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Props to all the folks whose hard work made this possible! You guys rock! -- Ed Leafe --

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the making. This is a new version of the

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Fetchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major milestone in Python's history, and

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000 or Py3k) represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the making. This is a new version of the

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Carl Banks
On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Congratulations! This is a great day for the Python community. Carl Banks --

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
thankers.append(self) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Ben Finney
Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Congratulations! This is a great day for the Python community. I'm