Mailman 3 April 2006 - Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] current 2.5 status
by Delaney, Timothy (Tim) April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

Trent Mick wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to write a "reaper" script that used > some combination of EnumWindows, SendKeys, the Performance Monitoring > APIs (Pdh* function) and some elbow grease to click these crash > dialogs away. I've found for this type of thing AutoIt <http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/> works well. An example that might be applicable: I've got an HTML bandwidth monitor I wrote that retrieves data from my router and my ISP using XMLHTTP. … [View More]

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current 2.5 status
by Neal Norwitz April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

Debian (ia64, ppc) is broken for several reasons, including the following test failures: test_ctypes test_curses test_sqlite. Some of the reasons vary depending on architecture. Ubuntu on hppa seems to have problems with at least: test_wait[34] seems to crash. cygwin has major problems (ie, it crashes) with test_bsddb3. This may actually be exposing a bug in bsddb. None of these are show stoppers IMO. Coverity didn't run last night. The only outstanding issues were due to sqlite. Many,… [View More]

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Twisted and Python 2.5a0r43587
by Jean-Paul Calderone April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

I tried out Twisted's test suite with a version of Python built from SVN trunk today and ran into a few problems. First, the test suite hung indefinitely using all available CPU time. This apparently was due to a change in the behavior of __import__: in Python 2.4, __import__('') raises a ValueError; in Python 2.5, it returns None. Once I hacked around this, the test suite ran to completion, though with over fifty failures. Some of these appear to be related to the conversion of the … [View More]

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outstanding items for 2.5
by Neal Norwitz April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

I updated the PEP to include owners. If this message is sent directly to you, you are an owner. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/ There are still some items without owners as I don't know who will be leading the charge to get some of the modules in the stdlib. If we don't have anyone pushing them, they won't go in. If they are going in, they should be committed soon after alpha1 is out the door. Please don't rush to get them in before the alpha, unless you're absolutely sure it … [View More]

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tally (and other accumulators)
by Alex Martelli April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

It's a bit late for 2.5, of course, but, I thought I'd propose it anyway -- I noticed it on c.l.py. In 2.3/2.4 we have many ways to generate and process iterators but few "accumulators" -- functions that accept an iterable and produce some kind of "summary result" from it. sum, min, max, for example. And any, all in 2.5. The proposed function tally accepts an iterable whose items are hashable and returns a dict mapping each item to its count (number of times it appears). This is … [View More]

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chilling svn for 2.5a1
by Neal Norwitz April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

The freeze is still a few hours away, but please refrain from modifications unless they are really, really important for the release. The tests are just starting to turn green again. I'm not as worried about doc changes. Andrew feel free to keep updating whatsnew. Cheers, n

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line numbers, pass statements, implicit returns
by Jeremy Hylton April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

There are several test cases in test_trace that are commented out. We did this when we merged the ast-branch and promised to come back to them. I'm coming back to them now, but the test aren't documented well and the feature they test isn't specified well. The failing tests I've looked at so far involving pass statements and implicit "return None" statements generated by the compiler. The tests seem to verify that 1) if you have a function that ends with an if/else where the body of … [View More]

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Renaming sqlite3
by "Martin v. Löwis" April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

I just tried creating a pysqlite VS project, and ran into a naming conflict: the Windows DLL is called sqlite3.dll. So if it is on sys.path import sqlite3 might find the DLL, instead of finding the package. Python then finds that there is no entry point in sqlite3, and raises an ImportError. I see three options: 1. rename sqlite3 again 2. link sqlite3 statically into _sqlite3.pyd 3. stop treating .DLL files as extension modules I'm actually leaning towards option 3: what is the rationale … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] r43613 - python/trunk/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
by David Goodger April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

[regarding the examples in the last section of libcsv.tex] [Walter Dörwald] > These classes will have problems with various non-charmap encodings. > (E.g. the writer will write multiple BOMS for UTF-16). IMHO it would be > better to use the new incremental codecs in these examples. Could you fix it? I'm not familiar with the incremental codecs. -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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posixmodule.c patch- revision 43586
by A.B., Khalid April 4, 2006

April 4, 2006

According to MSDN, ShellExecute has only six parameters: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/pl… But in the posixmodule patch at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2006-April/050698.html it is passed seven: """ rc = ShellExecuteW((HWND)0, operation, PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(unipath), PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(woperation), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); """ Shouldn't that part read as follows? Or am I missing something? """ rc = ShellExecuteW((… [View More]

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