Mailman 3 December 2008 - Python-Dev

Hello everyone + little question around Cpython/stackless
by Pascal Chambon Dec. 28, 2008

Dec. 28, 2008

Hello snakemen and snakewomen I'm Pascal Chambon, a french engineer just leaving my Telecom School, blatantly fond of Python, of its miscellaneous offsprings and of all what's around dynamic languages and high level programming concepts. I'm currently studying all I can find on stackless python, PYPY and the concepts they've brought to Python, and so far I wonder : since stackless python claims to be 100% compatible with CPython's extensions, faster, and brings lots of fun stuffs (… [View More]

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VM imaging based launch optimizations for CPython?
by Mikko Ohtamaa Dec. 26, 2008

Dec. 26, 2008

Hi fellow snakemen and lizard ladies, We have been recently done lots of Python work on Nokia Series 60 phones and even managed to roll out some commercial Python based applications. In the future we plan to create some iPhone Python apps also. Python runs fine in phones - after it has been launched. Currently the biggest issue preventing the world dominance of Python based mobile applications is the start up time. We cope with the issue by using fancy splash screens and progress indicators, … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] VM imaging based launch optimizations for CPython?
by Mikko Ohtamaa Dec. 26, 2008

Dec. 26, 2008

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Erno Kuusela <erno(a)iki.fi> wrote: > > unexec probably work out of the box on symbian, but...: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-May/035727.html > > unexec() is pretty much what I was looking for. However, looks like its old hack from 80s and cannot be applied as is to the modern environment. Basically unexec() dumps the running application code (not specific to any interpreter) and data segments out as a.out binary. … [View More]

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Dec. 26, 2008

Dec. 26, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (12/19/08 - 12/26/08) Python 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. 2295 open (+38) / 14279 closed (+12) / 16574 total (+50) Open issues with patches: 776 Average duration of open issues: 701 days. Median duration of open issues: 2752 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2277 (+38) pending 18 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (51) … [View More]

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test message - please ignore
by skip＠pobox.com Dec. 25, 2008

Dec. 25, 2008

Merry Christmas everyone. Still, just hit 'd'. I'm testing the mpo spam filter. Skip

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Should there be a way or API for retrieving from a code object a loader method and package file where the code comes from?
by Rocky Bernstein Dec. 24, 2008

Dec. 24, 2008

Now that there is a package mechanism (are package mechanisms?) like zipimporter that bundle source code into a single file, should the notion of a "file" location should be adjusted to include the package and/or importer? Is there a standard API or routine which can extract this information given a code object? A use case here I am thinking of here is in a stack trace or a debugger, or a tool which wants to show in great detail information from a code object possibly via a frame. For example … [View More]

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[ANN] Python 2.5.4 (final)
by "Martin v. Löwis" Dec. 23, 2008

Dec. 23, 2008

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.4 (final). Python 2.5.3 unfortunately contained an incorrect patch that could cause interpreter crashes; the only change in Python 2.5.4 relative to 2.5.4 is the reversal of this patch. 2.5.4 is the last bug fix release of Python 2.5. Future 2.5.x releases will only include security fixes. According to the release notes, about 80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python … [View More]

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suggest change to "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules" message
by Mike Coleman Dec. 23, 2008

Dec. 23, 2008

I was thrown by the "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules" message at the end of newer Python builds, and thought that this indicated that the Python executable itself was not built. That's arguably stupidity on my part, but I wonder if others will not trip on this, too. Would it be possible to change this wording slightly, to something like Python built, but failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules ?

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Problems compiling 2.6.1 on Solaris 10
by Ellinghaus, Lance Dec. 23, 2008

Dec. 23, 2008

I am hoping someone can assist me. I normally don't care if the _ctypes module builds or not, but I now need to have it build. I am running Solaris 10 with Sun's C compiler under SunStudio 11. After running 'configure' and 'make', the _ctypes module fails with the following error: cc -xcode=pic32 -DNDEBUG -O -I. -I/data/python/Python-2.6.1/./Include -Ibuild/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/libffi/include -Ibuild/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.6/libffi -I/data/python/Python-2.6.1/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/… [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Should there be a way or API for retrieving from a code object a loader method and package file where the code comes from?
by Phillip J. Eby Dec. 23, 2008

Dec. 23, 2008

At 04:00 PM 12/23/2008 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: >PPS Seriously, setuptools and the adoptions of eggs has pushed a lot >of code to be much more careful about unwarranted assumptions that >code lives in the filesystem. That's an incredibly good thing, and >very hard to do right (witness the setuptools "zip_safe" parameter >which acts as a get-out clause). Much kudos to setuptools for getting >as far as it has. And ironically, if I ever get the time to actually work on a new … [View More]

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