Mailman 3 March 2008 - Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Equality on method objects
by Phillip J. Eby March 11, 2008

March 11, 2008

At 01:59 PM 3/9/2008 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Do we have much of a use case for this? I've often had APIs that take a callback that promise to only invoke the callback once, even if it's added more than once. And I've used dicts, lists, and sets for same. I did not, however, need the equality of bound methods to be based on object value equality, just value identity. ...at least until recently, anyway. I do have one library that wants to have equality-based comparison of … [View More]

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Get rid of strerror.c and memmove.c?
by Brett Cannon March 10, 2008

March 10, 2008

I ran LLVM's under-development C front-end, clang (http://clang.llvm.org), against Python today. While a ton of message crop up thanks to lacking header files, I did come across a handful of semi-useful warnings (e.g., the change I checked into Python/compile.c). One thing it picked up is that on OS X Python/strerror.c disagrees with the declaration of sys_nerr and such. But then I thought I remembered strerror() being in C89. I checked configure-in to make sure that it wasn't special for some … [View More]

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RQST: Master Thesis
by Michal Revucky March 10, 2008

March 10, 2008

hi, I'm about to start my master thesis: "optimizing python interpreter" therefore i would require your help plz ;) first of all i need to find out, how the python interpreter is implemented, and which are the related sources, if this stuff is somewhere documented that would be very helpfull... thx in advance michal

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Equality on method objects
by Armin Rigo March 10, 2008

March 10, 2008

Hi all, In Python 2.5, I made an attempt to make equality consistent for the various built-in and user-defined method types. I failed, though, as explained in http://bugs.python.org/issue1617161. The outcome of this discussion is that, first of all, we need to decide which behavior is "correct": >>> [].append == [].append True or False? (See the issue tracker for why the answer should probably be False.) The general question is: if x.foo and y.foo resolve to the same … [View More]

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Distutils - changing the pypirc format
by Tarek Ziadé March 9, 2008

March 9, 2008

Hello, I would like to suggest changing the .pypirc file format to a format that can deal with several servers. This has been discussed here : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2008-January/001607.html And a summary document is available here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/EnhancedPyPI (this document also contains a change ti PyPI server but this is another point) A patch was built and enhanced in the last bug day, and is available here: http://bugs.python.org/issue1858. Best … [View More]

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Readline completion hook silences exceptions.
by Richard Thomas March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008

Hey, I've never posted to this list before but I think it is the right place for discussions such as this: The readline completion hook doesn't reraise exceptions. This is probably a good thing for actually using readline, less useful for debugging a completer. Possibly readline should have a 'debug' mode where it doesn't silence? Richard.

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3
by "Martin v. Löwis" March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008

> Ok, I have the 3MB log file. Should I upload it > somewhere or is there a pattern to find? Please compress it, and make a bug report on bugs.python.org. Regards, Martin

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Auto-Assignment
by "Martin v. Löwis" March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008

I just implemented auto-assignment for the tracker, i.e. a component can be linked to a developer so that issues mentioning the component get assigned to that developer (unless an explicit assignment is made). I have assigned 2to3 to Collin Winter (this was already implemented as a special case), and Documentation and Sphinx to Georg Brandl. Regards, Martin

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker March 8, 2008

March 8, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (02/29/08 - 03/07/08) 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. 1730 open (+28) / 12348 closed (+13) / 14078 total (+41) Open issues with patches: 468 Average duration of open issues: 739 days. Median duration of open issues: 1136 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1706 (+25) pending 24 ( +3) Issues Created Or Reopened (41) _______________________________ … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3
by "Martin v. Löwis" March 7, 2008

March 7, 2008

> As of 4:50 PM EST, the links to Windows installers give 404 File Not > Found. > > I gather that they are still in process, > and notice that there is no public c.l.p. announcement. I just fixed that. The files were there; just the links were wrong. Regards, Martin

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