Mailman 3 November 2003 - pypy-dev

Subversion questions
by pobrien＠orbtech.com 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

It looks like I'm going to invest in a server to host all my web activities. I'll have root access and can install whatever I want. So I'll be installing subversion. What particular setup has worked well for the PyPy folks? I'll probably use Debian for the OS. Also, Laura, are you using Subversion from within Emacs? If so, what did you do to set that up? I *love* accessing cvs from Emacs, so I'd like to be able to do the same with Subversion. Since I'll have unlimited domain capabilities, I can host the entire project, if you want. I'll be installing Mailman, so I can set up some mailing lists as well. If we can decide on a name (unless everyone is happy with restweb), I can register the domain name as well. The following are available: restweb.net rest-web.com rest-web.net rest-web.org If someone else wants to host this (Holger, Stepen) that's fine. Just thought I'd offer. -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien ----------------------------------------------- "Your source for Python programming expertise." -----------------------------------------------

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subscription request
by Dean Goodmanson 21 Nov '03

21 Nov '03

I'd like to lurk and potentially offer a few thoughts regarding a Python community site. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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from private mail out of discussion on building a community pythion website
by Laura Creighton 21 Nov '03

21 Nov '03

from discussion on marketing python, re: some place where we could all contribute more, a place where we could all contribute python hints and help and whatever, plus links to our blogs, and something written for suits, and we get to use Tim Parkin's logo which python.org rejected... ------- Forwarded Message Replied: pobrien(a)orbtech.com (Patrick K. O'Brien) Replied: Laura Creighton <lac(a)strakt.com> Replied: Stephan Deibel <sdeibel(a)wingide.com> Replied: Tim Parkin <tim(a)pollenation.net> Return-Path: pobrien(a)orbtech.com Delivery-Date: Wed Nov 19 17:51:46 2003 Laura Creighton <lac(a)strakt.com> writes: > What I wanted was a set of basic templates, that establish a look. > and then the abilty to edit what I want to say _in emacs_ using some > sort of basic markup -- like ReST. And then, all you really have to > do is type. I agree completely with this sentiment. Here is what would be my ideal system: * text files written using reST conventions * text files stored in cvs or svn * style sheet to work with reST that ends up looking like Tim's design * the result is static html pages that are search engine friendly Here is how people would contribute website content: * read tutorial about reST and updating content * ask for privileges at the cvs or svn repository * check out the files from cvs or svn * make changes in preferred text editor, or * check out the templates and create a new document * run unit tests which make sure the html gets created properly * make sure the html results look good with the style sheets * check the changes into the cvs or svn repository * cvs or svn changes get emailed to anyone who wants to monitor them * someone can reverse the changes, just like code in cvs or svn * the website gets rebuilt from the cvs or svn reposity each day If the content is in reST, we can also produce XML, PDFs, latex, OpenOffice, etc. Thoughts? - -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien - ----------------------------------------------- "Your source for Python programming expertise." - ----------------------------------------------- ------- End of Forwarded Message My thought is that we have this already in PyPy. correct? things are moving right along. later we get this: >Stephan Deibel <sdeibel(a)wingide.com> writes: > >> FWIW, I have been working on redesigning how wingide.com and >> pythonology.org work and it's reST-based. If this comes to action, >> let me know and maybe some of my code will be useful (I plan to open >> source the framework... yea yea, yet another web framework, but it's >> unique in being reST-centric). > >Whether I apply it to a Python-specific website or not, I do plan to >use something like this for several other websites I'm developing >right now. So I am *extremely* interested in your framework. Please >tell me more. I'll help in any way I can. I'm on the reST developer >team, have contributed a few additions to reST, and worked on the >OpenOffice converter that Robin Dunn and Noel Rappin and I are using >on the wxPython book for Manning. So I'm knee deep in this stuff >already. ;-) > >-- >Patrick K. O'Brien >Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien ----------- sounds to me as if this is something we want -- and we need to get Patrick to a Sprint .... now thigns are moving towards getting another sourceforge project. Patrick has several. but I think that we have lots of code to drop in. wanted to keep you all posted .... Laura

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Re: from private mail out of discussion on building a communitypythion website
by Laura Creighton 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

I thought of 'restify' as something you would pour something in some other format, say html, into and get ReST out .... I like being a restifarian. Pyrite pleases the geologist in me. Laura

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Question from an old friend of mine ....
by Laura Creighton 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

My friend Geoff Collyer just read the PyPy proposal. He said this: ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: geoff(a)collyer.net Delivery-Date: Thu Nov 6 02:26:25 2003 Message-ID: <259f0c7ae0856ce884c9062e0e2c10c3(a)collyer.net> To: lac(a)strakt.com Subject: Re: PyPy From: Geoff Collyer <geoff(a)collyer.net> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:26:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200311060104.hA614icL028140(a)ratthing-b246.strakt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on theraft.strakt.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: It appears that compiler theory has advanced quite a bit while I wasn't looking. How much of what you propose has already been implemented at least once? How much of the rest (unimplemented) is covered by existing compiler theory? ------- End of Forwarded Message I don't know the precise answer, so I post it here .... Laura

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from comp.lang.python.announce -- Helix encryption
by Laura Creighton 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

This might be interesting to use as a pypy performance test, if we can get the python version acceptably fast. ------- Forwarded Message From: "James Makela" <jamesm249(a)comcast.net> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python.announce Subject: ANN: xhelix encryption/authentication module There was recently an article named "Helix: Fast Encryption and Authentication" by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, published in the Nov 2003 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal. In it was a module written in python to implement this encryption method. This module works very well, but is too slow to be used in any practical application. xhelix is a python C extension implementing Helix encryption and authentication. It is used in the same way as the Helix module descibed in the article, but runs many, many times faster. The project resides at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xhelix/ The current version is 1.0 and is released under LGPL if you have any questions, mailto: jamesm249(a)users.sourceforge.net - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Annotations
by Armin Rigo 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello everybody, Just got an AnnotationHeap class in a shape that starts to look right. See pypy.translator.annheap. This is part of implementing doc/translator/annotation.txt. Anybody interested in joining the effort is welcome to #pypy :-) A bientot, Armin.

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Introducing Richard Emslie
by Christian Tismer 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Dear PyPy-bakers, how do I write a nice introduction? Here a try... Last time in Charleroix, I met Richard Emslie, right before my Stackless talk. He was quite interested and later implemented auto-scheduling for SLP 3.0. He is working for the Dublin department of a larger reinsurance company, which makes heavy use of Python. Last week, I was invited to Dublin as a consultant, in order to do training for them on how to build Python, extensions and GUIs under Windows. It was a very pleasant experience, both the department and working with Richard. There is a lot of interest to see PyPy succeed, and he may be sent to the next PyPy sprint, which I would appreciate very much. Richard is new to PyPy, but very interested and learning quickly. He has tough knowledge of Python and knows C very well, working under Linux most of the time. Still I'm not sure how to do a nice introduction, but that's all, folks. I'll leave the rest to Richard. cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/

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Re: LLVM and PyPy
by Armin Rigo 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Hello Chris, On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:58:45AM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote: > These are definitely features that we plan to add, but just haven't gotten > to yet. In particular, Alkis is working on a Java front-end, which will > require similar features. In the beginning, we will probably just use a > conservative collector, eventually adding support for precise GC. Great! > We already have the capability of doing function-at-a-time code > generation: what is basic-block at a time generation used for? How do you > do global optimizations like register allocation? It is central to Psyco, the Python just-in-time specializer (http://psyco.sourceforge.net) whose techniques we plan to integrate with PyPy. Unlike other environments like Self, which collects execution profiles during interpretation and use them to recompile whole functions, Psyco has no interpretation stage: it directly emits a basic block and run it; the values found at run-time trigger the compilation of more basic blocks, which are run, and so on. So each function's machine code is a dynamic network of basic blocks which are various specialized versions of a bit of the original function. This network is not statically known, in particular because basic blocks often have a "switch" exit based on some value or type collected at run-time. Every new value encountered at this point triggers the compilation of a new switch case jumping to a new basic block. We will also certainly consider Self-style recompilations, as they allow more agressive optimizations. (Register allocation in Psyco is done using a simple round-robin scheme; code generation is very fast.) > That would be great! We've tossed around the idea of creating C bindings > for LLVM, which would make interfacing from other languages easier than > going directly to the C++ API, but we just haven't had a chance to yet. > Maybe you guys would be interested in helping with that project? Well, as the C++ API is nice and clean it is probably simpler to bind it directly to Python. We would probably go for Boost-Python, which makes C++ objects directly accessible to Python. But nothing is sure about this; maybe driving LLVM from LLVM code is closer to our needs. Is there a specific interface to do that? Is it possible to extract from LLVM the required code only, and link it with the final executable? In my experience, there are a few limitations of C that require explicit assembly code, like building calls dynamically (i.e. the caller's equivalent of varargs). A bientot, Armin.

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From Pycon organizers, a request :-)
by Laura Creighton 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Should I tell them that we are coming? Laura ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: pycon-organizers-bounces(a)python.org Delivery-Date: Wed Oct 29 08:17:41 2003 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:07:55 -0800 From: "Brett C." <bac(a)OCF.Berkeley.EDU> To: sholden(a)holdenweb.com Subject: Re: [Pycon-organizers] Call for Papers Steve Holden wrote: > The Call for Papers must go out this week, and I will be pre-announcing > the registration URL at the same time (Trevor: please make sure there's > an attractive "real soon now" page - maybe webmaven can help with > graphics id required?). Can all pycon-organizers please make their > suggestions in the next day or two? > > We should include a list of general topics as well as perhaps some > specific suggestions for papers that we would like to see included in > the schedule. > I would love to here someone present on PyPy. Are how about Numarray and how that will be different from Numeric? This then segues into scientific uses of Python. Educational uses of Python is always nice. OK, that is all the dribble from my brain at the moment. - -Brett _______________________________________________ Pycon-organizers mailing list Pycon-organizers(a)mail.python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers ------- End of Forwarded Message

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