Mailman 3 October 2001 - Python-Dev

Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules _sre.c,2.71,2.72
by barry＠zope.com Oct. 22, 2001

Oct. 22, 2001

>>>>> "FL" == Fredrik Lundh <effbot(a)users.sourceforge.net> writes: FL> sre.split should return the last segment, even if empty FL> (sorry, barry) Thank you effbot!

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Re: [Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2
by Anthony Baxter Oct. 22, 2001

Oct. 22, 2001

Hm. What's the general consensus on portability fixes w.r.t. 2.1.2? I'm leaning toward "yes", but my concern is that they stand a chance of causing some other weird freakshow platform to fail to compile, where it previously worked... obviously I don't mean HP/UX threading here, as I think it's a lost cause :) But on the other hand, if it helps a platform build, where it previously did not... Hm hm hm. Anthony

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by Brian Fletcher Oct. 21, 2001

Oct. 21, 2001

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Imports very slow on one NT4 system - any idea what to check for
by Barry Scott Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

I helping a friend get up to speed with Python. He has installed the ActiveState 2.1.1 on a number of machines. All run nice and fast except for one machine. It is one of group of identical desktop Dual 866MHz PIII systems with 1G RAM, SCSI hard drive running Windows NT4.0/SP6a. Importing getopt, re, sys, string and os takes 7 seconds. Using python -v just shows a uniform slowness, all files are slow. python -vv he tells me did not show a particular slow spot. His laptop Crusoe 700MHz machine, 192MB, IDE hard drive runs the same imports in 1.1 seconds. I've asked that he checks the python -v output to make sure that the .pyc files are being loaded and not the .py. Any idea what else to check for? Barry

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[development doc updates]
by Fred L. Drake Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

The development version of the documentation has been updated: http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/ Documentation update beyond the Python 2.2 beta 1 docs. This matches the revised iSilo document conversion.

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Python documentation for iSilo
by Fred L. Drake, Jr. Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

I've re-worked the iSilo version of the documenation for the first beta of Python 2.2; each manual is now a separate document for iSilo, so you can pick & choose the documents you need. They are also smaller than the first test version (by about 1/3 of a megabyte), which is a nice savings. This version includes a few post-beta documentation fixes. To try it out, download the file isilo-2.2b1+.zip from: ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/doc/2.2b1/ Please send comments on this version of the docs to me at: python-docs(a)python.org Enjoy! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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RELEASED: Python 2.2b1 is out!
by barry＠zope.com Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

We've released Python 2.2b1, the first beta release of Python 2.2, for your ebullience, ecdysis, and embarcation. As this is the first beta release, we are now in feature freeze for Python 2.2. http://www.python.org/2.2/ Give it a good try, and report what breaks to the bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470 New features in this release include: - New-style classes are now always dynamic, except for built-in and extension types - A very subtle syntactical pitfall in list comprehensions was fixed - getattr(obj, name, default) now only catches AttributeError - Weak reference objects are now part of the core and offers a C API. - unicode(obj) now behaves more like str(obj) - isinstance() now accepts more objects as its first and second arguments - os and posix supports chroot(), setgroups() and unsetenv() where available. The stat(), fstat(), statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions now return "pseudo-sequences" whose elements can be accessed by name or index. The time module's localtime(), gmtime() and strptime() are pseudo-sequences too. - Many improvements to the profiler As usual, Andrew Kuchling is writing a gentle introduction to the most important changes (currently excluding type/class unification), titled "What's New in Python 2.2": http://www.amk.ca/python/2.2/ There is an introduction to the type/class unification at: http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release, including all the alpha testers! brought-to-you-by-the-letter-"E"-ly y'rs, -Barry

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should I check in this test_xmlrpc test case change?
by Skip Montanaro Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

When I made the latest change to xmlrpclib.py (to test for integer overflow), I also expanded the test_xmlrpc.py file. Unfortunately, I forgot to check it in. Should I do that now or file it as a separate patch? Skip

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should I check in this test_xmlrpc test case change?
by Martin.v.Loewis＠t-online.de Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

> Should I do that now or file it as a separate patch? Please check it in now, so it appears in 2.2b2. Thanks, Martin

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Has socketmodule compilation broken for anyone else lately?
by Mark.Favas＠csiro.au Oct. 19, 2001

Oct. 19, 2001

For the last couple of days, socketmodule hasn't compiled for me on Tru64 Unix. If I'm the only one seeing this, I'll file a bug report on sf... building '_socket' extension cc: Error: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 2820: An unexpected newline character is present in a string literal. (nlstring) "RAND_egd(path) -> bytes ^ cc: Warning: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 2821: Invalid token discarded. (invaltoken) \n\ ^ cc: Warning: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 2822: Invalid token discarded. (invaltoken) Queries the entropy gather daemon (EGD) on socket path. Returns number\n\ -----------------------------------------------------------------------^ cc: Warning: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 2823: Invalid token discarded. (invaltoken) of bytes read. Raises socket.sslerror if connection to EGD fails or\n\ --------------------------------------------------------------------^ cc: Error: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 2824: An unexpected newline character is present in a string literal. (nlstring) if it does provide enough data to seed PRNG."; --------------------------------------------^ cc: Error: Modules/socketmodule.c, line 3037: In this statement, "PySocket_methods" is not declared. (undeclared) m = Py_InitModule3("_socket", PySocket_methods, module_doc); ------------^ /bin/cc -O -Olimit 1500 -DUSE_SSL=1 -I/usr/local/ssl/include -I. -I/home/erebus2/groucho1/mark/src/python/CVS/python/dist/src/./Include -I/usr/local/include -IInclude/ -c /home/erebus2/groucho1/mark/src/python/CVS/python/dist/src/Modules/socketmod ule.c -o build/temp.osf1-V4.0-alpha-2.2/socketmodule.o WARNING: building of extension "_socket" failed: command '/bin/cc' failed with exit status 1

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