Mailman 3 May 2000 - Python-Dev

weird bug in test_winreg
by Guido van Rossum May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000

I just noticed a weird traceback in test_winreg. When I import test.autotest on Windows, I get a "test failed" notice for test_winreg. When I run it by itself the test succeeds. But when I first import test.autotest and then import test.test_winreg (which should rerun the latter, since test.regrtest unloads all test modules after they have run), I get an AttributeError telling me that 'None' object has no attribute 'get'. This is in encodings.__init__.py in the first call to _cache.get() in … [View More]

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Re: [XML-SIG] Re: [I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate
by tpassin＠home.com May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000

Guido van Rossum wrote, about how to represent strings: > Paul, we're both just saying the same thing over and over without > convincing each other. I'll wait till someone who wasn't in this > debate before chimes in. I'm with Paul and Federick on this one - at least about characters being the atoms of a string. We **have** to be able to refer to **characters** in a string, and without guessing. Otherwise, how could you ever construct a test, like theString[3]==[a particular … [View More]

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Python bltinmodule.c,2.154,2.155
by Jack Jansen May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000

> _PyBuiltin_Init_2(): Don't test Py_UseClassExceptionsFlag, just go > ahead and initialize the class-based standard exceptions. If this > fails, we throw a Py_FatalError. Isn't a Py_FatalError overkill? Or will not having the class-based standard exceptions lead to so much havoc later on that it is better than limping on? -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.… [View More]

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Unicode comparisons & normalization
by Just van Rossum May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000

After quickly browsing through the unicode.org URLs I posted earlier, I reach the following (possibly wrong) conclusions: - there is a script and language independent canonical form (but automatic normalization is indeed a bad idea) - ideally, unicode comparisons should follow the rules from http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ (But it seems hardly realistic for 1.6, if at all...) - this would indeed mean that it's possible for u == v even though type(u) is type(v) and len(u) != len(v).… [View More]

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PROPOSAL: exposure of values in limits.h and float.h
by Trent Mick May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000

I apologize if I am hitting covered ground. What about a module (called limits or something like that) that would expose some appropriate #define's in limits.h and float.h. For example: limits.FLT_EPSILON could expose the C DBL_EPSILON limits.FLT_MAX could expose the C DBL_MAX limits.INT_MAX could expose the C LONG_MAX (although that particulay name would cause confusion with the actual C INT_MAX) - Does this kind of thing already exist somewhere? Maybe in NumPy. - If we ever (perhaps in … [View More]

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Re: [XML-SIG] Re: [I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate
by jkraai＠murlmail.com May 2, 2000

May 2, 2000

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Doc/lib libos.tex,1.38,1.39
by pf＠artcom-gmbh.de May 2, 2000

May 2, 2000

Barry A. Warsaw: > Update of /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Doc/lib [...] > libos.tex [...] > Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. > \end{funcdesc} > --- 703,712 ---- > \end{funcdesc} > > ! \begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, times} > ! Set the access and modified times of the file specified by \var{path}. > ! If \var{times} is \code{None}, then the file's access and modified > ! times are set to the current time. Otherwise, \var{times} must be a … [View More]

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Traceback style
by Ka-Ping Yee May 2, 2000

May 2, 2000

This was also going to go out after i posted the display/displaytb patch. But anyway, let's see what you all think. I propose the following stylistic changes to traceback printing: 1. If there is no function name for a given level in the traceback, just omit the ", in ?" at the end of the line. 2. If a given level of the traceback is in a method, instead of just printing the method name, print the class and the method name. 3. Instead of … [View More]

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documentation for new modules
by Fred L. Drake, Jr. May 2, 2000

May 2, 2000

The "winreg" module needs some documentation; is anyone here up to the task? I don't think I know enough about the registry to write something reasonable. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives

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fun with unicode, part 1
by Fredrik Lundh May 2, 2000

May 2, 2000

>>> filename = u"gröt" >>> file = open(filename, "w") >>> file.close() >>> import glob >>> print glob.glob("gr*") ['gr\303\266t'] >>> print glob.glob(u"gr*") [u'gr\366t'] >>> import os >>> os.system("dir gr*") ... GRÇôT 0 01-02-03 12.34 grÇôt 1 fil(es) 0 byte 0 dir 12 345 678 byte free hmm. </F>

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