Mailman 3 April 2008 - Python-Dev

NeedsReview keyword
by Benjamin Peterson April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

I think it would be useful for the tracker to grow a "NeedsReview" keyword. I realize the "patch" keyword does some of this, but it may just represent some initial or trivial work. "NeedsReview" should represent a mature patch that some senior dev needs to look hard at and make the choice. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson

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Patch submitted for xmlrpclib
by Leonard Clark April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

I submitted a patch a few days ago (http://bugs.python.org/issue2623) to fix a datetime parameter formatting issue (See issue) I was wondering if this was adequate and whether it could be included in future releases. Thank you. -- Leonard Clark

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Deco
by Trent Nelson April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

Neal, Martin, We're in the process of decommissioning the box the 'x86 FreeBSD 3' build slave is running on, can you remove it from the list? Our new FreeBSD 7.0 server is up, which we're slowly migrating to, and I'll be able to set a slave up on that probably some time next week once we've moved our production stuff over. Trent.

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weird configure (autotools) setup
by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

Why is CFLAGS in Makefile.pre.in specified as CFLAGS= $(BASECFLAGS) $(OPT) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) whereas that will negate any CFLAGS you pass to configure? A normal call to configure (as ./configure --help also explains) can contain a CFLAGS specification, e.g.: CFLAGS="-compiler_options" ./configure --config_options Configure happily compiles and tests everything with the working CFLAGS (as evident in config.log), but when it comes to the output substitution it will, of course, not be … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)
by Phillip J. Eby April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

At 10:53 AM 3/17/2008 -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: >I don't think this should play games with scripts being overridden or >whatever. If a bootstrap script is to be installed it should have a >separate name. I'm not sure what the advantage is of a bootstrap >script over "python -m bootstrap_module ..." though. And -m also makes explicit: 1. that it's a Python-specific tool 2. which Python version it will apply to >The PEP suggests that other package managers also benefit. … [View More]

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Next monthly sprint/bugfix day?
by Trent Nelson April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

Hi, Is there another online sprint/bugfix day in the pipeline? If not, can there be? ;-) Trent.

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Python 2.4.4/2.4.5 test_pty failure on Solaris 10
by skip＠pobox.com April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

I know this is old stuff, but... I want to update our Python 2.4 installation at work from 2.4.2 to 2.4.5 (the latest 2.4 source release). I get a test failure for test_pty, an extra ^M at the end of one line. I don't get a failure in the 2.4.2 installation, but the 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 both fail this test. Looking at the code in test_pty.py, it appears to me that r43570 fixed things for OSF/1 and IRIX which both do weird things with output while breaking things for any other platform by … [View More]

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Pickle format machine independence
by Hrvoje Nikšić April 14, 2008

April 14, 2008

Are pickle files intended to be readable across different machine architectures? The documentation states unequivocally that they are compatible across Python versions, but compatibility across machine architectures (wrt to differences in size and layout of primitive C types) is not explicitly addressed. One example where I stumbled upon the incompatibility is the pickling of arrays. While pickle is normally very careful to write out numbers in a platform-independent way, arrays are written … [View More]

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Reserving an arg space for Jython
by Frank Wierzbicki April 13, 2008

April 13, 2008

Hi all, I was wondering if it might be possible for Jython to get an "arg space" for command line execution. We try to deliver the same switches that Python delivers (so for example -c means "program passed in as string" on Python and Jython). We have some need for arguments that would be Jython-specific, for example we would like to be able to pass arguments to the Java process that starts Jython. I would just make one up, but it would be best if it was future compatible with Python (so -J … [View More]

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generated NEWS files
by Benjamin Peterson April 12, 2008

April 12, 2008

I know that doing merges is rather painful because of the Misc/NEWS files. Would it be possible to have the NEWS log generated from commit messages? I was thinking something like this in a message: Fixed this and that **NEWS:Library** #1234 X is now known as Y. It should be fairly simple to write a script to extract and compile these messages into NEWS before release. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson

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