Mailman 3 May 2008 - Python-Dev

Releasing alphas tonight
by Barry Warsaw May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just a reminder that I'm going to be cutting the releases tonight. Because of work, I didn't make the 6pm EDT goal, and now I have to run out for a few hours. I will send another message when I'm ready to start spinning the release, but figure it will be at about 10pm EDT. Please limit your commits between now and then to only things you absolutely know will improve stability and test passing. Thanks, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] r62778 - in python/branches/py3k: Lib/io.py Lib/test/test_StringIO.py Lib/test/test_io.py Lib/test/test_largefile.py Lib/test/test_memoryio.py Lib/test/test_mimetools.py Modules/_bytesio.c Modules/_fileio.c Python/pythonrun.c setup.py
by Christian Heimes May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

alexandre.vassalotti schrieb: > Author: alexandre.vassalotti > Date: Tue May 6 21:48:38 2008 > New Revision: 62778 > > Log: > Added fast alternate io.BytesIO implementation and its test suite. > Removed old test suite for StringIO. > Modified truncate() to imply a seek to given argument value. Thanks for your great work! But what about the trunk? :] Can you port your code to the trunk before the alpha gets out? Christian

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Re: [Python-Dev] sock.close() not closing?
by Greg Ewing May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

Bill Janssen wrote: > The HTTP client-side library calls "makefile" on the socket, then > closes it, then passes the file returned from "makefile" on to > application code to work with. Seems to me we really need two different APIs for doing a makefile()-like operation, depending on whether you're expecting to get a copy of the file descriptor or not. -- Greg

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Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008
by Barry Warsaw May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a reminder that the LAST planned alpha releases of Python 2.6 and 3.0 are scheduled for next Wednesday, 07-May-2008. Please be diligent over the next week so that none of your changes break Python. The stable buildbots look moderately okay, let's see what we can do about getting them all green: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/stable/ We have a few showstopper bugs, and I will be looking at these more carefully starting next … [View More]

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urllib unicode handling
by Tom Pinckney May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

Hi, While trying to use urllib in python 2.5.1 to HTTP GET content from various web sites, I've run into a problem with urllib.quote (and .quote_plus): they don't accept unicode strings. I see that this is an issue that has been discussed before: see this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067248.html especially this post: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067335.html While I don't really want to re-open a can of worms, it seems that the … [View More]

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REMINDER: Python Sprint Weekend This Weekend!
by Trent Nelson May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

Just a friendly reminder that this weekend is the Python sprint weekend! Look forward to seeing everyone on #python-dev irc.freenode.net over the course of the weekend! Trent. On 16 Apr, 18:52, Trent Nelson wrote: > > Following on from the success of previous sprint/bugfix weekends and > sprinting efforts at PyCon 2008, I'd like to propose the next two > Global Python Sprint Weekends, taking place on the following dates: > > * May 10th-11th (four … [View More]days after 2.6a3 and 3.0a5 are released) > * June 21st-22nd (~week before 2.6b2 and 3.0b2 are released) > > It seems there are a few of the Python User Groups keen on meeting > up in person and sprinting collaboratively, akin to PyCon, which I > highly recommend. I'd like to nominate Saturday across the board > as the day for PUGs to meet up in person, with Sunday geared more > towards an online collaboration day via IRC, where we can take care > of all the little things that got in our way of coding on Saturday > (like finalising/preparing/reviewing patches, updating tracker and > documentation, writing tests ;-). > > For User Groups that are planning on meeting up to collaborate, > please reply to this thread on python-dev(a)python.org and let every- > one know your intentions! > > As is commonly the case, #python-dev on irc.freenode.net will be > the place to be over the course of each sprint weekend; a large > proportion of Python developers with commit access will be present, > increasing the amount of eyes available to review and apply patches. > > For those that have an idea on areas they'd like to sprint on and > want to look for other developers to rope in (or just to communicate > plans in advance), please also feel free to jump on this thread via > python-dev@ and indicate your intentions. > > For those that haven't the foggiest on what to work on, but would > like to contribute, the bugs tracker at http://bugs.python.org is > the best place to start. Register an account and start searching > for issues that you'd be able to lend a hand with. > > All contributors that submit code patches or documentation updates > will typically get listed in Misc/ACKS.txt; come September when the > final release of 2.6 and 3.0 come about, you'll be able to point at > the tarball or .msi and exclaim loudly ``I helped build that!'', > and actually back it up with hard evidence ;-) > > Bring on the pizza and Red Bull! > > Trent. [View Less]

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ctypes documentation
by Bill Janssen May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

I just made another attempt to use ctypes to wrap a library, and am facing the same problem I had the last time: the documentation doesn't really work. I'm wondering if we have any projects underway to re-write it? Bill

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sock.close() not closing?
by Sjoerd Mullender May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

Why does sock.close() not actually close sock? If I run the code import socket sock = socket.socket() ... sock.close() I would expect that a system call is done to actually close the socket and free the file descriptor. But that does not happen. Look at the code in socket.py. It merely replaces the socket instance with a dummy instance so that all subsequent calls on the sock object fail, but it does nothing else! -- Sjoerd Mullender

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Community buildbots
by Jean-Paul Calderone May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Hi, I just wanted to point out a few things: Community 2.5 bots, 6 out of 8 offline, of the remaining two (which are both red), one is actually using Python 2.6, not Python 2.5: http://python.org/dev/buildbot/community/2.5/ Community 2.6 bots, 6 out of 8 offline, but at least the remaining two (both of which are red) seem to be using the correct Python version: http://python.org/dev/buildbot/community/trunk/ Jean-Paul

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#1858, looking for a reviewer
by Tarek Ziadé May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Hi, The register and upload commands have a --repository option that allows to use them with any server. You can register and upload a package to any server that has the right set of web services. They also work with a configuration file called .pypirc Unfortunately there is no inline option to define the username/password. This has to be defined in .pypirc. But this file does not allow having different sets of username/password, so in reality it is not possible to play with … [View More]

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