Mailman 3 October 2000 - Python-Dev

Proposal -- makefile patches and scripts to generate python RPMs
by Martin v. Loewis Oct. 6, 2000

Oct. 6, 2000

> The main thing a specfile generator can accomplish is to automate > the generation of the file list so that (for example) when we add a > new library module the specfile doesn't have to be hand-edited. That sounds similar to the rationale for having automatically generated dependency files for make, e.g. by gcc -MM. Many projects use this as a convenience, and it kind-of works. However, I still like it better to have dependencies explicitly recorded in the Makefiles. That requires … [View More]

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htmllib.HTMLescape()
by Martin von Loewis Oct. 6, 2000

Oct. 6, 2000

> The difficulty, I assume, lies in figuring out which encodings > support what characters. It's not that difficult to write a set of new codecs; with the module below, I can do >>> import xmlenc >>> u'\u0416'.encode('latin-1-xml') 'Ж' >>> unicode('XɅY','latin-1-xml') u'X\u0245Y' The difficulty is that the algorithm is not very efficient if there are many unsupported characters in a string. Regards, Martin # Module implementing a set of … [View More]

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RE: buffer overlow in PC/getpathp.c
by Jeremy Hylton Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

>I would be happy to! Although I am happy to report that I believe it >safe - I have been very careful of this from the time I wrote it. > >What is the process? How formal should it be? Not sure how formal it should be, but I would recommend you review uses of strcpy and convince yourself that the source string is never longer than the target buffer. I am not convinced. For example, in calculate_path(), char *pythonhome is initialized from an environment variable and thus has … [View More]

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forwarded message from Gerald Pfeifer
by Fred L. Drake, Jr. Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

I just got this message from the gcc-announce list. We've seen bug reports related to GCC 2.96 (which may or may not be the problem). We need to be aware that these releases are out there and can be a problem. I've noticed that the version of GCC shipped with Mandrake 7.1 is "gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)", which doesn't give my much confidence either. ;( -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at beopen.com> BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src configure,1.157,1.158 configure.in,1.166,1.167
by Thomas Wouters Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:45:55AM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src > In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv14007 > Modified Files: > configure configure.in > Log Message: > Change all occurances of > > test -d "$directory" > to > test ! -z "directory" -a -d "directory" > Apparently, on SunOS 4.1.4_JL (and other?) OSes, -d on an empty string > always returns true. This closes SF bug #115392. > --- … [View More]

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forwarded message from aahz@panix.com
by bwarsaw＠beopen.com Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src configure,1.157,1.158 configure.in,1.166,1.167
by Skip Montanaro Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

Barry> Apparently, on SunOS 4.1.4_JL (and other?) OSes, -d on an empty Barry> string always returns true. This closes SF bug #115392. There was a big thread recently on the tramp mailing list (similar to efs for remote file editing in Emacs, but uses ssh/scp instead) about trying to find a portable way to test for the existence of a file. After trying all sorts of stuff, the final result was pretty ugly, as I recall. -- Skip Montanaro (skip(a)mojam.com) http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/

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PEP 4: Deprecation of standard modules
by Martin von Loewis Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

I just finished a first draft of a PEP on deprecating (and eventually removing) modules from the standard Python library; it is available from http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0004.html If you have comments or suggestions on the proposed procedures, or the wording of the text, please send me a message. According to the PEP procedures (PEP 1), this is the preferred way of progressing this PEP (rather than discussing it on these lists), at least initially. Regards, Martin

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Release candidate followed by feature freeze?
by Martin von Loewis Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

> I'd like to poll opinions about this (we haven't had a PythonLabs > group meeting about this yet). YES! I was hoping somebody would propose such a thing; I was quite concerned that check-in procedures are still that liberate. To report how similar projects operate: In gcc, a CVS release branch is created at some point in time (usually months before the release). When the code is declared frozen, all changes to the release branch have to go through the release manager. After the … [View More]

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Adding a section to PEP 0042
by Greg Ward Oct. 5, 2000

Oct. 5, 2000

I need to add an entry to PEP 0042 about the lack of cross-compilation support, because that's a bug report that was assigned to me, and needs to be marked "Closed/Feature Request/Later" and put in PEP 0042. Seems to me that I should just add a section on "Build/Installation" to the PEP -- anyone disagree? This might also be a good place to gather other gripes about Python's build/installation machinery... Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward(a)mems-exchange.… [View More]

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