Mailman 3 July 2005 - Python-Dev

Python on PyPI
by Reinhold Birkenfeld July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

Hi, to whom it may concern: the Python package on PyPI is at version 2.3.2. Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid!

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Is PEP 237 final -- Unifying Long Integers and Integers
by Raymond Hettinger July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

IIRC, there was a decision to not implement phase C and to keep the trailing L in representations of long integers. If so, I believe the PEP can be marked as final. We've done all we're going to do. Raymond

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc developers.txt, 1.15, 1.16
by Skip Montanaro July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

raymond> Log Message: raymond> Brett requests that Flovis's permissions be dropped. Not to put too fine a spin on things, but I think it was more like Brett got tired of waiting for Flovis's permissions to be increased and retracted his original request. Skip

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SF patch #1214889 - file.encoding support
by Reinhold Birkenfeld July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

Hi, would anyone care to comment about this patch of mine -- https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1214889&group_… It makes file.encoding read-write and lets the write() and writelines() methods obey it. Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid!

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Another SoC student for CVS access
by Brett Cannon July 14, 2005

July 14, 2005

Floris is working on wrapping Hotshot to replace 'profile' and replacing pstats so that there will be no more need for 'profile' and thus take care of the licensing problem. He also hopes to make pstats faster to use. And if we are really lucky, get threading working for Hotshot. It would be great to give him CVS access so he can work in nondist. His username is sirolf . He knows he is not to touch anything outside of his directory in nondist. -Brett

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Linux Python linking with G++?
by David Abrahams July 13, 2005

July 13, 2005

Apparently Python on some linux distros is being linked by g++ rather than gcc, resulting in the C++ runtime library being linked into Python; this has bad consequences for compatibility between C++ extension modules and Pythons that have been built with different versions of GCC. Is this behavior intentional? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

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Re: [Python-Dev] Possible context managers in stdlib
by Michael Chermside July 12, 2005

July 12, 2005

James Y Knight writes: > It is a really bad idea to codify the practice of modifying non- > threadlocal global state like sys.std[in|out|err] and current > directory with a context manager. Barry Warsaw responds: > Thinking about the types of code I write over and over again, I think I > disagree (slightly) with James about the global state thing. While I > agree that 'with redirected_stdio' isn't too useful in the face of > print>>, I very often have to write try/finally protections around > temporary settings of the cwd, the umask, and other global process > values. I'd love to see cm's for those constructs in the stdlib. I agree with Barry. Not only should they be in the stdlib, but they should have very clear warnings in their docstrings and other documentation that state that they are ONLY safe to use in single-threaded programs. This achieves two things: it makes them available to those who need them (not everyone uses threads!), and it rather forcefully makes the point that it's NOT usually a good idea to modify global state info in a context manager because doing so is not generally threadsafe. -- Michael Chermside

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Terminology for PEP 343
by Marc-Antoine Parent July 12, 2005

July 12, 2005

Probably late in the game, esp. for an outsider, but I read the terminology discussion with interest. FWIW, I do like Philip's use of context, though I feel that it is a very generic word that may clash with many application-level classes... For that reason, I also liked "scope" a lot, though it was an... expension of that term's usual meaning beyond namespaces. Anyway, what really struck me all along is that, when reading the keyword "with", I always felt that I would replace it with "within", which imho fits the context/scope terminology better. Thus "within" a "context", we do certain actions... which are fenced with __begincontext and __endcontext. (Oh, yes, fences... What was the original precise computer science meaning of that word, again?) Cheers, Marc-Antoine

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Re: [Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFEfor review)
by Michael Chermside July 12, 2005

July 12, 2005

M A Lemburg writes: > we should use strings and Unicode > like they are supposed to be used (in the context of text > data): > > * strings are fine for text data that is encoded using > the default encoding > > * Unicode should be used for all text data that is not > or cannot be encoded in the default encoding > > Later on in Py3k, all text data should be stored in Unicode > and all binary data in some new binary type. Wow. That is the most succinct and clear explanation of how to use unicode in Python that I think I've ever heard. It might even be simple enough for _me_ to understand it! I think I'm going to go frame this and have it posted in my cubical. -- Michael Chermside

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Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary
by Kurt B. Kaiser July 12, 2005

July 12, 2005

Patch / Bug Summary ___________________ Patches : 349 open ( +1) / 2880 closed ( +1) / 3229 total ( +2) Bugs : 897 open ( -1) / 5119 closed (+16) / 6016 total (+15) RFE : 194 open ( +1) / 170 closed ( +0) / 364 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches ______________________ PEP 343 draft documentation (2005-07-07) http://python.org/sf/1234057 opened by Nick Coghlan PEP 343 implementation (2005-07-11) http://python.org/sf/1235943 opened by Michael Hudson Patches Closed ______________ Allow weak referencing of classic classes (2005-04-03) http://python.org/sf/1175850 closed by glchapman New / Reopened Bugs ___________________ Pickle protocols 1, 2 can't handle "inf" floats. (2005-07-06) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1233578 opened by Charles getpass.getpass() performs differently on Windows vs *nix (2005-07-07) http://python.org/sf/1233785 opened by Darryl Dixon tkFileDialog.askopen... fails when dir="" (2005-07-06) http://python.org/sf/1233799 opened by Russell Owen datetime.strftime %s (2005-07-07) http://python.org/sf/1234123 opened by Peter Kleiweg 'insufficient disk space' message wrong (msi on win xp pro) (2005-07-07) http://python.org/sf/1234328 opened by Patrick Vrijlandt configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (int), 77 (2005-07-07) http://python.org/sf/1234473 opened by Tekhne filecmp.cmp's "shallow" option (2005-07-08) http://python.org/sf/1234674 opened by Mendez Admin privs required for Windows? (2005-07-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1234850 opened by Tim Peters Tutorial Section 6.3 example wrong (2005-07-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1234956 opened by Phoebus Chen ConfigParser generating strings I can't compare (2005-07-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1234965 opened by Robert Guico Lock.acquire treats only 1 as True (2005-07-08) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1234979 opened by Chris Perkins using some_re.sub() often imports sre.__doc__ (2005-07-09) http://python.org/sf/1234985 opened by Steve Alexander debug info file descriptor of tarfile is inconsistent (2005-07-10) http://python.org/sf/1235266 opened by George Yoshida Inconsistent singleton constructor messages (2005-07-10) CLOSED http://python.org/sf/1235569 opened by Pavel Pergamenshchik codecs.StreamRecoder.next doesn't encode (2005-07-10) http://python.org/sf/1235646 opened by Sebastian Wangnick crashes in bgen wrappers (2005-07-11) http://python.org/sf/1236090 opened by Michael Hudson Bugs Closed ___________ openssl-0.9.8 requires _ssl.mak change (2005-07-06) http://python.org/sf/1233049 closed by loewis chr() returns ? when input > 127 in OS X (2005-07-02) http://python.org/sf/1231488 closed by loewis Build failure (2005-06-30) http://python.org/sf/1230161 closed by ceramond Pickle protocols 1, 2 can't handle "inf" floats. (2005-07-06) http://python.org/sf/1233578 closed by mwh Admin privs required for Windows? (2005-07-08) http://python.org/sf/1234850 closed by loewis Tutorial Section 6.3 example wrong (2005-07-08) http://python.org/sf/1234956 closed by birkenfeld ConfigParser generating strings I can't compare (2005-07-08) http://python.org/sf/1234965 closed by tim_one Lock.acquire treats only 1 as True (2005-07-08) http://python.org/sf/1234979 closed by birkenfeld function and method objects confounded in Tutorial (2004-06-09) http://python.org/sf/969757 closed by birkenfeld Inconsistent singleton constructor messages (2005-07-10) http://python.org/sf/1235569 closed by rhettinger PyObject_Realloc bug in obmalloc.c (2005-04-19) http://python.org/sf/1185883 closed by tim_one Need locale arg to strftime() (2005-06-13) http://python.org/sf/1219840 closed by bcannon ``from sys import stdin,`` doesn't raise a SyntaxError (2005-04-25) http://python.org/sf/1190012 closed by bcannon [AST] distinct code objects not created (2005-04-25) http://python.org/sf/1190011 closed by bcannon [AST] automatic unpacking of arguments broken (2005-04-19) http://python.org/sf/1186353 closed by bcannon [AST] genexps get scoping wrong (2005-04-19) http://python.org/sf/1186195 closed by bcannon

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