Mailman 3 February 2007 - Python-Dev

Bundling decimal.py with Django
by Andrew Durdin Feb. 23, 2007

Feb. 23, 2007

Apologies if this is a little off-topic for python-dev, but it seemed like the best place to ask and get the attention of those needed. I am championing a patch to improve Django's support for numeric types by using Decimals with numeric columns and floats with double precision columns, rather than the current rather unpredictable behaviour (which depends on the particular python version and database backend being used). It has been proposed[1] to include decimal.py from the Python 2.5 … [View More]

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A Reminder : A Survey on Defect Management Practices in Free/Open Source Software
by Anu Gupta DCSA Feb. 22, 2007

Feb. 22, 2007

Sir/Madam I seek help from designers, developers, testers,defect fixers,project managers or playing any other key role in Free/Open Source software development or maintenence in carrying out a study to identify practices and problems of defect management in various Free/Open Source Software projects. The insights gained from the study can further help us to extract publicly accessible defect data and determine impact of defect management practices on software quality. Please spend a … [View More]

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Weekly Python Patch/Bug Summary
by Kurt B. Kaiser Feb. 22, 2007

Feb. 22, 2007

Patch / Bug Summary ___________________ Patches : 408 open ( -9) / 3585 closed (+20) / 3993 total (+11) Bugs : 968 open ( +8) / 6505 closed ( +7) / 7473 total (+15) RFE : 267 open ( +1) / 251 closed ( +0) / 518 total ( +1) New / Reopened Patches ______________________ Handle requests to intern string subtype instances (2007-02-13) http://python.org/sf/1658799 opened by Hrvoje Nik?i? Minor pasting patch (2007-02-13) http://python.org/sf/1659326 opened by … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Welcome to the "Python-Dev" mailing list
by Juan Carlos Suarez Feb. 22, 2007

Feb. 22, 2007

Good morning, thanks a lot for your answer, I confirmed by this means my subscription. What I really wish and need is to be able to use Mailman as a freely distributer , as a distributer of my own mailing lists ,as a mailing list manager , to be able to send my mails by Mailman and to be able to open my own mail address. How should I do this. I need your instructions and help. I'm waiting for your answer soon Thanks, my regards, Juan Carlos Suarez You wrote: Welcome to the Python-Dev(a)… [View More]

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Py_ssize_t
by Raymond Hettinger Feb. 22, 2007

Feb. 22, 2007

After thinking more about Py_ssize_t, I'm surprised that we're not hearing about 64 bit users having a couple of major problems. If I'm understanding what was done for dictionaries, the hash table can grow larger than the range of hash values. Accordingly, I would expect large dictionaries to have an unacceptably large number of collisions. OTOH, we haven't heard a single complaint, so perhaps my understanding is off. The other area where I expected to hear wailing and gnashing of teeth … [View More]

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NamedTuple (was: Py2.6 ideas)
by python＠rcn.com Feb. 21, 2007

Feb. 21, 2007

[Raymond Hettinger] > The constructor signature ... Point(*fetchall(s)), > and it allows for direct construction with Point(2,3) without > the slower and weirder form: Point((2,3)). [Jim Jewett] >> If you were starting from scratch, I would agree >> whole-heartedly; this is one of my most frequent >> mistakes.The question is whether it makes sense to >> "fix" NamedTuple without also fixing regular tuple, list, Yes. Tuples and lists both have syntactic … [View More]

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NamedTuple (was: Py2.6 ideas)
by Jim Jewett Feb. 21, 2007

Feb. 21, 2007

Raymond Hettinger explained: > The constructor signature ... Point(*fetchall(s)), > and it allows for direct construction with Point(2,3) without the > slower and weirder form: Point((2,3)). If you were starting from scratch, I would agree whole-heartedly; this is one of my most frequent mistakes. The question is whether it makes sense to "fix" NamedTuple without also fixing regular tuple, list, set, etc. Assuming this goes to collections rather than builtins, would it be … [View More]

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Wrapping up 'dynamic attribute' discussion
by Ben North Feb. 19, 2007

Feb. 19, 2007

I wrote: > I've sent an updated version of PEP 363 to the editors, which > includes the following summary of the discussion. I hope I've > captured the important points, but please let me know if there's > something important I've left out or misrepresented. There were a couple of points made off-list, which I've incorporated. The final version of the PEP is now with the editors. Ben.

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A Survey on Defect Management Practices in Free/Open Source Software
by Anu Gupta DCSA Feb. 19, 2007

Feb. 19, 2007

Hi Python developers I seek help from designers, developers, testers,defect fixers,project managers or playing any other key role in Free/Open Source software development or maintenence in carrying out a study to identify practices and problems of defect management in various Free/Open Source Software projects. The insights gained from the study can further help us to extract publicly accessible defect data and determine impact of defect management practices on software quality. Please … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] urllib2 EP + decr. startup time
by Phillip J. Eby Feb. 18, 2007

Feb. 18, 2007

At 01:25 PM 2/17/2007 +0200, KoDer wrote: >C:\\Python25\\lib\\. contain *many* packages with .dll files - i can't >just zip it. >wxPython,pyOpenGL,PIL,tk and so on. On Fedora 6 more than 40% dirs of >/usr/lib/site-packages contained .so files. Some of them add dirs to path >(wx,PIL,Gtk,...). I'm not talking about the subdirectories under lib, just lib itself. That is, the Python standard library. Stdlib DLLs are in a separate subdirectory ('DLLs' on Windows, 'lib-dynload' … [View More]

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