Mailman 3 November 2007 - Python-Dev

Special file "nul" in Windows and os.stat
by Facundo Batista Nov. 7, 2007

Nov. 7, 2007

Hi, people! I'm following the issue 1311: http://bugs.python.org/issue1311 There (and always talking in windows), the OP says the in Py2.4 os.path.exists("nul") returned True and now in 2.5 returns False. Note that "nul" is an special file, something like /dev/null. We made some tests, and we have inconsisten behaviour in previous Python versions. For example, in Py2.3.5 in my machine I get a False, as in Py2.5. But other person in the bug, gets True in 2.3.3 and False in 2.5. Even the OP … [View More]

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Nov. 6, 2007

Nov. 6, 2007

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/30/07 - 11/06/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1323 open (+16) / 11557 closed (+19) / 12880 total (+35) Open issues with patches: 419 Average duration of open issues: 683 days. Median duration of open issues: 785 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1318 (+16) pending 5 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (35) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/29/07 - 11/05/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1323 open (+16) / 11552 closed (+19) / 12875 total (+35) Open issues with patches: 421 Average duration of open issues: 682 days. Median duration of open issues: 784 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1317 (+15) pending 5 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (35) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Nov. 4, 2007

Nov. 4, 2007

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/28/07 - 11/04/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1316 open (+11) / 11549 closed (+19) / 12865 total (+30) Open issues with patches: 416 Average duration of open issues: 684 days. Median duration of open issues: 778 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1311 (+11) pending 5 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (30) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Nov. 3, 2007

Nov. 3, 2007

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/27/07 - 11/03/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1316 open (+15) / 11546 closed (+20) / 12862 total (+35) Open issues with patches: 417 Average duration of open issues: 683 days. Median duration of open issues: 777 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1312 (+15) pending 4 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (36) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Does Python need a file locking module (slightly higher level)?
by skip＠pobox.com Nov. 3, 2007

Nov. 3, 2007

I'm always daunted by the prospect of trying to implement file locking. This just came up again in SpamBayes where we have never protected our pickle files from corruption when multiple processes access them simultaneously. The presence of networked file systems and platform-independent locks make it a nasty little problem. Maybe I'm just showing my age. Does fcntl.flock work over NFS and SMB and on Windows? If this is still as much of a mess as I remember, should Python provide a simple … [View More]

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Nov. 2, 2007

Nov. 2, 2007

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (10/26/07 - 11/02/07) Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue number. Do NOT respond to this message. 1315 open (+15) / 11541 closed (+21) / 12856 total (+36) Open issues with patches: 417 Average duration of open issues: 683 days. Median duration of open issues: 775 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1311 (+15) pending 4 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (36) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters
by Phillip J. Eby Nov. 2, 2007

Nov. 2, 2007

At 11:09 AM 10/31/2007 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Yes, though I think that if prop.fdel is None, we could use func in >both slots. Eh? Isn't prop.fdel supposed to be a single-argument function? ISTM that C is the only place where fset and fdel are the same thing.

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Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters
by Raymond Hettinger Nov. 2, 2007

Nov. 2, 2007

> I'd like to make this [propset] a standard built-in, +1 -- I find this to be an attractive syntax > I'd also like to change property so that the doc > string defaults to the doc string of the getter. +1 -- This should also be done for classmethod, staticmethod, and anything else that wraps functions. Alternatively, the doc string could be made a little more informative: __doc__ = 'property of function %s: %s' % (f.__name__, f.__doc__) Raymond

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Re: [Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters
by Raymond Hettinger Nov. 2, 2007

Nov. 2, 2007

> I'm not sure about the name "propset" ... >Maybe something like "setproperty" would be better. I think not. Saying "setproperty" has too many ambiguous mental parsings. When does "set" take place -- assigning a value to a property is different defining the property itself. Is "set" a verb so that we're talking about a property of sets/frozensets. Is "set" a completed action so that the property has been set. Let's stick with "propset" which has precedent as an svn action and … [View More]

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