Mailman 3 May 2003 - Python-Dev

How to test this?
by Skip Montanaro May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

I just added a patch file to <http://python.org/sf/731501>. It doesn't include any test cases, since that requires an old db hash v2 file present. Is it okay to check in a dummy file to Lib/test for this purpose? Thanks, Skip

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Re: [Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness
by Zooko May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

Alex Martelli wrote: > > I'd love a read-only dictionary (AND a read-only list) for reasons having > little to do with optimization, actually [...] Me too! It would be very useful for secure Python -- I could pass my list to some without risking that it mutates my list. Without RO-lists I have to make a copy of my list every time I want to show it to someone. Regards, Zooko http://zooko.com/

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Windows installer request...
by Bjorn Pettersen May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

Would it be possible for the windows installer to use $SYSTEMDRIVE$ as the default installation drive instead of C:? (On my XP box, C: is my zip-drive, and E: is my SYSTEMDRIVE(*) -- I'm now re-installing :-) If it's considered a good idea, and someone can point me to where the change has to be made, I'd be more than willing to produce a patch... -- bjorn (*) Don't ask, MS wisdom I guess. Oh, and if you don't have a C: drive, all you WinExplorer icons disappear (subst C: a: and it works :-) In any case, I'm not brave enough to try to change it <wink>.

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Re: [Python-Dev] Re: heaps
by Zooko May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

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Election of Todd Miller as head of numpy team
by Paul Dubois May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

Todd Miller has been elected as the new Head of the Numeric Python development team. I am still an active developer, but it was time to rotate responsibilities. We especially need help with Numeric maintenance while Todd is working on Numarray. Thanks to all of you who helped me during my tenure. Remember, when you see Todd, the expected greeting to the NummieHead is a salute with more than one finger, accompanied by the cry, "Ni Ni Numpy!". See the file DEVELOPERS in the distribution for our "constitution". Paul

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Distutils using apply
by Moshe Zadka May 5, 2003

May 5, 2003

Hi! I haven't seen this come up yet -- why is distutils still using apply? It causes warnings to be emitted when building packages with Python 2.3 and -Wall, and is altogether unclean. Is this just a matter of checking in a patch? Or submitting one to SF? Or is there a real desire to be compatible to Python 1.5.2? Thanks, Moshe -- Moshe Zadka -- http://moshez.org/ Buffy: I don't like you hanging out with someone that... short. Riley: Yeah, a lot of young people nowadays are experimenting with shortness. Agile Programming Language -- http://www.python.org/

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Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary
by Skip Montanaro May 4, 2003

May 4, 2003

Bug/Patch Summary ----------------- 423 open / 3606 total bugs (+17) 137 open / 2130 total patches (+10) New Bugs -------- mmap's resize method resizes the file in win32 but not unix (2003-04-27) http://python.org/sf/728515 Long file names in osa suites (2003-04-27) http://python.org/sf/728574 ConfigurePython gives depreaction warning (2003-04-27) http://python.org/sf/728608 super bug (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/729103 building readline module fails on Irix 6.5 (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/729236 What's new in Python2.3b1 HTML generation. (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/729297 comparing versions - one a float (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/729317 rexec not listed as dead (2003-04-29) http://python.org/sf/729817 MacPython-OS9 eats CPU while waiting for I/O (2003-04-29) http://python.org/sf/729871 metaclasses, __getattr__, and special methods (2003-04-29) http://python.org/sf/729913 socketmodule.c: inet_pton() expects 4-byte packed_addr (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730222 Unexpected Changes in list Iterator (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730296 Not detecting AIX_GENUINE_CPLUSPLUS (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730467 Python 2.3 bsddb docs need update (2003-05-01) http://python.org/sf/730938 HTTPRedirectHandler variable out of scope (2003-05-01) http://python.org/sf/730963 urllib2 raises AttributeError on redirect (2003-05-01) http://python.org/sf/731116 test_tarfile writes in Lib/test directory (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731403 Importing anydbm generates exception if _bsddb unavailable (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731501 Pimp needs to be able to update itself (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731626 OSX installer .pkg file permissions (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731631 Package Manager needs Help menu (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731635 IDE "lookup in documentation" doesn't work in interactive wi (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731643 GIL not released around getaddrinfo() (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731644 An extended definition of "non-overlapping" would save time. (2003-05-04) http://python.org/sf/732120 Clarification of "pos" and "endpos" for match objects. (2003-05-04) http://python.org/sf/732124 New Patches ----------- Fixes for setup.py in Mac/OSX/Docs (2003-04-27) http://python.org/sf/728744 test_timeout updates (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/728815 Compiler warning on Solaris 8 (2003-04-28) http://python.org/sf/729305 Dictionary tuning (2003-04-29) http://python.org/sf/729395 Add Py_AtInit() startup hook for extenders (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730473 assert from longobject.c, line 1215 (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730594 RTEMS does not have a popen (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730597 socketmodule inet_ntop built when IPV6 is disabled (2003-04-30) http://python.org/sf/730603 pimp.py has old URL for default database (2003-05-01) http://python.org/sf/731151 redirect fails in urllib2 (2003-05-01) http://python.org/sf/731153 AssertionError when building rpm under RedHat 9.1 (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731328 make threading join() method return a value (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731607 SpawnedGenerator class for threading module (2003-05-02) http://python.org/sf/731701 find correct socklen_t type (2003-05-03) http://python.org/sf/731991 exit status of latex2html "ignored" (2003-05-04) http://python.org/sf/732143 Closed Bugs ----------- "es#" parser marker leaks memory (2002-01-10) http://python.org/sf/501716 math.fabs documentation is misleading (2003-03-22) http://python.org/sf/708205 Lineno calculation sometimes broken (2003-03-24) http://python.org/sf/708901 Put a reference to print in the Library Reference, please. (2003-04-17) http://python.org/sf/723136 imaplib should convert line endings to be rfc2822 complient (2003-04-18) http://python.org/sf/723962 socketmodule doesn't compile on strict POSIX systems (2003-04-20) http://python.org/sf/724588 SRE bug with capturing groups in alternatives in repeats (2003-04-21) http://python.org/sf/725106 valgrind python fails (2003-04-24) http://python.org/sf/727051 tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os (2003-04-26) http://python.org/sf/728097 Closed Patches -------------- fix for bug 501716 (2003-02-11) http://python.org/sf/684981 OpenVMS complementary patches (2003-03-23) http://python.org/sf/708495 unchecked return values - compile.c (2003-03-23) http://python.org/sf/708604 Cause pydoc to show data descriptor __doc__ strings (2003-03-29) http://python.org/sf/711902 timeouts for FTP connect (and other supported ops) (2003-04-03) http://python.org/sf/714592 Modules/addrinfo.h patch (2003-04-22) http://python.org/sf/725942 Remove extra line ending in CGI XML-RPC responses (2003-04-25) http://python.org/sf/727805

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optparse docs need proofreading
by Greg Ward May 3, 2003

May 3, 2003

So you're sitting around, wondering what to do with your weekend, and worrying that the Python 2.3 documentation is not perfect yet. Well, you could proofread the documentation for optparse (currently section 6.20 of the "lib" manual), which was converted wholesale from reStructuredText to LaTeX, and still bears some scars. Both the DVI/PS/PDF output and HTML bear close examination. I'm working on it now, but will undoubtedly miss stuff, so feel free to email any glitches you notice in the latest CVS version to me. Greg -- Greg Ward <gward(a)python.net> http://www.gerg.ca/

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Timbot?
by David Abrahams May 3, 2003

May 3, 2003

This has probably already been spotted, but in case it hasn't... I just googled for Timbot and found: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~mpj/timbot/#Programming -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

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updated notes about building bsddb185 module
by Skip Montanaro May 3, 2003

May 3, 2003

Folks, An recent thread on c.l.py about the old bsddb module and new bsddb package convinced me to add more verbiage about building the old version. If you have a moment, please take a look at http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html and/or README at the top of the source tree. (Search for "bsddb".) I modified them to include a brief note about building the bsddb185 module and making it appear as the default when people "import bsddb". Feedback appreciated. Thanks, Skip

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