Mailman 3 February 2008 - Python-Dev

Should a change in search order of directories in setup.py be backported?
by Brett Cannon Feb. 3, 2008

Feb. 3, 2008

I found out that the directories listed in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS were being added in reverse order in setup.py. That meant having ``-I/foo -I/bar`` was searching /bar first. I fixed setup.py in the trunk so that the declared order if followed instead. But should this be backported? It will change how extensions are compiled if there is more than one version on a machine. Not sure if we want people to suddenly have what they link against change in a micro release. -Brett

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A word of warning against using sqlite3 from MacPorts
by Brett Cannon Feb. 3, 2008

Feb. 3, 2008

I was running the test suite today and I was getting a segfault in test_sqlite. That seemed odd since I had not seen any issues on any buildbots. And running the test independently was fine. Noticing that sqlite 3.5.5 was recently available I had MacPorts update. Unfortunately this didn't fix things. I narrowed things down to running test_ctypes before test_sqlite as the trigger. In order to debug I wanted to use a version of sqlite that I had compiled. So after figuring out which package to … [View More]

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Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.
by Mark Dickinson Feb. 2, 2008

Feb. 2, 2008

A request for information: What non IEEE 754 platforms exist that people care about running Python 2.6, Python 3.0 and higher on? By non IEEE 754 platform, I mean a platform where either the C double is not the usual 64-bit IEEE floating-point format, or where the C double is IEEE format but the platform deviates in major ways from the IEEE 754 specification. There are a few places (mostly in mathmodule.c, cmathmodule.c, floatobject.c, longobject.c) where it's not clear that the code behaves … [View More]

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Tracker marks my messages as spam :-)
by Jesus Cea Feb. 2, 2008

Feb. 2, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This will be my last email today, I don't want to waste (more of) your *valuable* time. http://bugs.python.org/issue1391 http://bugs.python.org/msg61892 - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)argo.es http://www.argo.es/~jcea/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ ~ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "… [View More]

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Upcoming 2.5.2 release
by "Martin v. Löwis" Feb. 2, 2008

Feb. 2, 2008

It is my pleasure to announce that I have been appointed as the release manager for the upcoming releases. For 2.5.2, I would like to release a candidate on February 14, and the final version on February 21. As Guido already mentioned, this will be a bug fix release only; no new features allowed. Kind regards, Martin

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker Feb. 2, 2008

Feb. 2, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (01/25/08 - 02/01/08) 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. 1680 open (+31) / 12172 closed (+21) / 13852 total (+52) Open issues with patches: 434 Average duration of open issues: 759 days. Median duration of open issues: 1045 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1656 (+30) pending 24 ( +1) Issues Created Or Reopened (52) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.5.2 release
by Jaroslav Pachola Feb. 1, 2008

Feb. 1, 2008

It would be very nice if http://bugs.python.org/issue1692335 fix was included in 2.5.2. The patch exists, have been tested, reviewed by Georg Brandl, who says he needs some other developer to review the patches (there is a separate patch for 2.6). Could please someone look at the issue and help get the problem fixed in 2.5.2.? Regards, Jaroslav Pachola

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