Mailman 3 July 2004 - Python-Dev

RE: [Python-Dev] Fun with whitespace
by Michael Chermside July 23, 2004

July 23, 2004

Kurt writes: > Alternatively, PS2 could be four spaces (or do you all prefer the > dots?) and indents could be four spaces. It seems that cut/paste > would work if the reindent first magically replaced '^>>> ' (and > '^...') with ''. Michael Hudson replies: > Is it possible to have copy/paste see the text w/o prompts? I agree. After all, I often paste my code into someplace OTHER than IDLE. -- Michael Chermside

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RE: [Python-Dev] Re: python-dev Summary for 2004-07-01 through2004-07-15[draft]
by Michael Chermside July 23, 2004

July 23, 2004

The summary stated: > You are not getting tail recursion Terry Reedy writes: > This strikes me as both misleading and potentially inflamatory. I agree with Terry that this one should be phrased (and titled?) differently. Here's how I might word it: ---------------------------------- Tail recursion proposal rejected ---------------------------------- Christopher King proposed a patch that performs tail call elimination -- if a recursive call were the last action in a function then it … [View More]

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PEP 309?
by Peter Harris July 22, 2004

July 22, 2004

I know it's a busy time, but is there any chance that PEP 309 could get squeezed in some time between 2.4a2 and the final release? It's only a tiny "waffer-theen" Python module, and as far as I know the code, docs and tests are ready to go. Or if there's still some work to do, I'm ready to do it. Peter Harris

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SWIG comments
by Claire Guilbaud July 22, 2004

July 22, 2004

Hi, I use SWIG to create a module from several C++ classes. In my C++ classes, I have a lot of comments to generate doxygen documentation. I would like to have the same comments for the module (with help(mymodule)) but in doc strings for pydoc. I don't want to have doc strings for pydoc in my C++ part. Does anybody know a solution ? Thanks very much Margebulle --------------------------------- Créez gratuitement votre Yahoo! Mail avec 100 Mo de stockage ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail … [View More]

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Logging with no handlers configured
by Vinay Sajip July 22, 2004

July 22, 2004

Currently, if the logging module is used with no handlers configured for a logger or its parents and you try to log events with that logger, a single message is printed to sys.stderr: No handlers could be found for logger <logger name> It has been suggested that this puts out a spurious message when, for whatever reason, a developer intentionally does not configure any handlers. A good use case for this is when writing a library component - the library may happily log events, and if the … [View More]

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More joy with test_strptime
by Tim Peters July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Today (CVS HEAD), test_strptime is failing on WinXP, in release and debug test runs, but only when I run the full test suite: test test_strptime failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_strptime.py", line 289, in test_bad_timezone self.failUnlessEqual(tz_value, -1) AssertionError: 0 != -1 If I run it in isolation, it does not fail: C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python ../lib/test/test_strptime.py test_basic (__main__.getlang_Tests) ... ok test_am_pm (… [View More]__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_date_time (__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_lang (__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_month (__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_timezone (__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_weekday (__main__.LocaleTime_Tests) ... ok test_blankpattern (__main__.TimeRETests) ... ok test_compile (__main__.TimeRETests) ... ok test_matching_with_escapes (__main__.TimeRETests) ... ok test_pattern (__main__.TimeRETests) ... ok test_pattern_escaping (__main__.TimeRETests) ... ok test_TypeError (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_bad_timezone (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_caseinsensitive (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_date (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_date_time (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_day (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_defaults (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_escaping (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_hour (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_julian (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_minute (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_month (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_percent (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_second (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_time (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_timezone (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_unconverteddata (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_weekday (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_year (__main__.StrptimeTests) ... ok test_twelve_noon_midnight (__main__.Strptime12AMPMTests) ... ok test_all_julian_days (__main__.JulianTests) ... ok test_day_of_week_calculation (__main__.CalculationTests) ... ok test_gregorian_calculation (__main__.CalculationTests) ... ok test_julian_calculation (__main__.CalculationTests) ... ok test_new_localetime (__main__.CacheTests) ... ok test_regex_cleanup (__main__.CacheTests) ... ok test_time_re_recreation (__main__.CacheTests) ... ok ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 39 tests in 0.219s OK The regrtest framework alone is not making it fail either: C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python ../lib/test/regrtest.py test_strptime test_strptime 1 test OK. Best guess is that some earlier test (in a full test run) is screwing up locale in a way test_strptime can't recover from. Maybe that's enough so that you know who you are <wink>. [View Less]

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Fun with whitespace
by Tim Peters July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Heads up! Using reindent.py to normalize whitespace in the Tools/scripts directory uncovered a file with bad syntax problems. So I repaired that file's errors, then ran reindent over the entire source tree. Using reindent once creates a fixed-point: running reindent again on the output file won't change it. That makes reindent an easy way to ensure files in the core follow the Python coding guidelines. Before today, I only ran it on hand-selected subdirectories, to minimize the pain if it … [View More]

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Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary
by Kurt B. Kaiser July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Patch / Bug Summary ___________________ Patches : 275 open ( -3) / 2470 closed (+12) / 2745 total ( +9) Bugs : 750 open (-11) / 4281 closed (+51) / 5031 total (+40) RFE : 145 open ( +0) / 130 closed ( +1) / 275 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches ______________________ socketmodule on OpenBSD/sparc64 (64bit machine) (2004-07-16) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/992055 opened by Aleksander Piotrowski zipfile and big zipped file (2004-07-17) http://python.org/sf/992750 … [View More]

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sre.split question
by Chris King July 20, 2004

July 20, 2004

I'm curious as to this bit of code in pattern_split() in Modules/_sre.c: if (state.start == state.ptr) { if (last == state.end) break; /* skip one character */ state.start = (void*) ((char*) state.ptr + state.charsize); continue; } This precludes use of patterns that can successfully match zero-length strings (e.g. r'(?<=[A-Za-z])(?=[^A-Za-z])'. Skipping one character is of course the correct behaviour, but … [View More]

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Re: PEP 331: Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions
by P＠draigBrady.com July 20, 2004

July 20, 2004

Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > The LC_NUMERIC PEP has just been allocated a number, PEP 331. > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0331.html > > Though the code has been integrated, comments and corrections to the PEP > would be appreciated -- in particular, Tim might have some comments on > the thread-safety issues, Gustavo, about the implementation or Martin, > about the actual constraints on the change itself. Oh cool. Since we're now setting LC_NUMERIC at the … [View More]

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