Mailman 3 May 2008 - Python-Dev

Committing bsddb 4.6.4, and where can I put testsuite temp files?
by Jesus Cea 25 May '08

25 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just committed pybsddb 4.6.4 to python svn. My next step (after a successfull buildbot cycle, I hope!) is to commit the new testsuite. First I need to review any changes there since I maintain pybsddb. The testsuite creates a lot of files/directories while working. Fine, since it cleans later, unless some test crashes hard. My testcode defines a variable to the path I want to use to keep those files/dirs. Currently it is "/tmp/z-BerkeleyDB", or something like that. Since my code allows for testcases to be run in multiple threads and/or processes, where would be a sensible path choice for temporal files?. Current working directory would be fine, if "somebody" is cleaning after running all tests. Ramdisk ("/tmp" in some systems, for example Solaris) would be nice, since some test uses transactions, and transactions are write-synchronous. In my system, runnning all tests serially (you can run all of them in parallel, if you wish) takes about 15-20 seconds. Far faster than current tests in python svn, and that can be improved even more. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ ~ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSCnngZlgi5GaxT1NAQLhPwP9GMMyNMgz6mfmfHXVOV8bDJGOQRok95uL 14A+K9zXW3/wlp1rhvoPmCHYqvRoCLVkPZ/7pLEQlo1ZksOlHy6BH3MDeDJEjVax 69XlzUUeuqplGbTiMdX8qd0dPi2Jp+Akg7U6ZmBdADhF7D21umU474OalKO2eIoL ba/wnlMvens= =1lai -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Python-Dev] Importing bsddb 4.6.21; with or without AES encryption?
by Trent Nelson 23 May '08

23 May '08

Gah. I just went and visited the Berkeley DB download site as I was preparing my commit message so I could refer to the exact .tar.gz being imported, only to notice that the latest version is now 4.7.25. Jesus, can we use this version? Trent. ________________________________________ From: python-dev-bounces+tnelson=onresolve.com(a)python.org [python-dev-bounces+tnelson=onresolve.com(a)python.org] On Behalf Of Jesus Cea [jcea(a)jcea.es] Sent: 19 May 2008 23:46 To: Python DEV Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Importing bsddb 4.6.21; with or without AES encryption? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trent Nelson wrote: | I downloaded the source that includes AES encryption, for no reason | other than it was first on the list. I'm now wondering if we should | only be importing the 'NC' source that doesn't contain any | encryption? Jesus, does pybsddb use any of the Berkeley DB | encryption facilities? Would anything break if we built the | bsddb module without encryption? Yes, pybsddb3 4.6.4 supports cryptography if the underlying Berkeley DB library is crypto enabled. In principle, you can compile BDB without crypto, and pybsddb3 should work, but you would lose ability to open any DB formerly created using page encryption or page checksum. Export laws aside, we better compile with crypto :). Details: http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb_doc/dbenv.html#set_encrypt <http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/xml/api_c/db_set…> - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ ~ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSDIDWplgi5GaxT1NAQKaagP+Myn6t364B9cVMUtlKjTIX1LBZkkEG7SX pv+hjUZ68r0Suw8SkhXnBbL2Ek3/yFhvNHH8qAZvEtRGsFGmKiNXccn9Ce3oy0me rAYhuuICleAUJ8RO8FZz+sGK3SR4kITrqnGfMnG46u0rXDQy82NSRW2+uWz/D96d U+X/wfV2HgQ= =io+q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/tnelson%40onresolve.com

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker 23 May '08

23 May '08

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (05/16/08 - 05/23/08) 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. 1884 open (+40) / 12889 closed (+16) / 14773 total (+56) Open issues with patches: 559 Average duration of open issues: 702 days. Median duration of open issues: 1428 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1861 (+40) pending 23 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (61) _______________________________ Backport oct() and hex() to use __index__ 05/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2337 reopened benjamin.peterson patch, 26backport Moving lib-tk to tkinter package 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2839 reopened brett.cannon patch Write UserDict fixer for 2to3 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2876 reopened brett.cannon Rename repr to reprlib 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2880 reopened brett.cannon Create the html package 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2882 reopened brett.cannon Crash in ParseTupleAndKeywords when passing byte string keywords 05/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2895 created scoder cmathmodule.c compilation error 05/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2896 created Juno include structmember.h in Python.h 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2897 created benjamin.peterson Add memory footprint query 05/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2898 created okkoto patch Fixers find, rfind, etc in 'string' module 05/17/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2899 created bhy math.copysign(1, float('nan')) 05/17/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2900 created christian.heimes "error: can't allocate region" from mmap() when receiving big ch 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2901 created hwaara tkinter uses MacOS 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2902 created benjamin.peterson Add __name__ in globals of generated namedtuple namespace 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2903 created xilun patch Cross-referencing to a method using an alternate title don't wor 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2904 created llucax test_urllib.py crashes with bus error on Darwin 05/18/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2905 created cartman tkinter, assorted fixes 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2906 created gpolo patch, patch ZeroDivisionError error message needs clarification 05/18/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2907 created chester fix_imports new entries for tkinter rename 05/18/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2908 reopened gpolo patch struct.Struct.unpack to return a namedtuple for easier attribute 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2909 created habnabit patch Remove plat-mac from 3.0 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2910 created brett.cannon rewrite test_struct as a unittest 05/18/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2911 created benjamin.peterson easy let platform.uname try harder 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2912 created benjamin.peterson easy idlelib/EditorWindow.py uses xrange() 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2913 created mark Logging TimedRotatingFileHandler Feature Request 05/19/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2914 created vschmidt PyObject_IsInstance() doesn't find bases named in type(name, bas 05/19/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2915 created scoder urlgrabber.grabber calls setdefaulttimeout 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2916 created kiilerix merge pickle and cPickle in 3.0 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2917 created brett.cannon Merge StringIO/cStringIO in 3.0 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2918 created brett.cannon Merge profile/cProfile in 3.0 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2919 created brett.cannon Patch to print symbolic value or errno in EnvironmentError.__str 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2920 created ygingras patch enable embedding: declare/#define only py* symbols in #includes 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2921 created hfuru "No windows home dir" doc error 05/19/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2922 created python(a)johnburnett.com Revert ConfigParser rename in 2.6 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2923 created brett.cannon Revert copy_reg rename in 2.6 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2924 created brett.cannon Revert Queue rename in 2.6 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2925 created brett.cannon Revert SocketServer rename in 2.6 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2926 created brett.cannon expose html.parser.unescape 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2927 created thomaspinckney3 patch Allow set/frozenset for __all__ 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2928 created Rhamphoryncus patch TimedRotatingFileHandler crashes on backup file deletion attempt 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2929 created blocki Cannot change variable defined in "__init__.py" after importing 05/20/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2930 created crayor optparse: various problems with unicode and gettext 05/20/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2931 created ash patch Documenting Python: Syntax" 05/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2932 created owen "Documenting Python: Syntax" bug 05/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2933 created owen set() comparisons do not play well with others 05/21/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2934 created ncoghlan rfc822.py line 395 strings connection 05/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2935 created erezbibi ctypes.util.find_library() doesn't consult LD_LIBRARY_PATH 05/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2936 created janssen Incorrect rounding in floating-point operations with gcc/x87 05/21/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2937 created marketdickinson Interactive help writes to the python install destination direct 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2938 created r_mosaic Apache mod_python python-func strftime 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2939 created raisachrisgun Building Python fails on SunOS 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2940 created syraxes Propagate define to resurce mingw32 compile 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2941 created shura_zam patch mingw/cygwin do not accept asm file as extension source 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2942 created shura_zam patch Distutils should generate a better error message when the SDK is 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2943 created cdavid asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2944 created shigin patch bdist_rpm does not list dist files (should effect upload) 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2945 created htgoebel setuptools: bdist_wininst adds duplicate entry to dist_files 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2946 created htgoebel subprocess (Replacing popen) - add a warning / hint 05/22/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2947 created HWJ Unicode support for hashing algorithms 05/23/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2948 created vvro Windows installer doesn't include OpenSSL license and notice 05/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2949 created lemburg silly readline module problem 05/23/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2950 created AndyNovo Issues Now Closed (49) ______________________ merge urllib and urlparse functionality 208 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1333 brett.cannon toxml generates output that is not well formed 201 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1390 loewis patch ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() function 126 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1793 theller patch Cant open python gui using VISTA 116 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1948 kbk mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with PROT_REA 99 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2111 loewis Use of file.xreadlines() should raise a Py3K warning 61 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2353 georg.brandl patch, 26backport test_subprocess fails if your sys.executable is on a path with a 60 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2381 gregory.p.smith patch, easy Backport sys.maxsize to Python 2.6 55 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2488 loewis patch, easy, 26backport urlparse normalize URL path 42 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2583 facundobatista PyString_FromStringAndSize() to be considered unsafe 36 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2587 gregory.p.smith weakref.proxy fails to delegate tp_index slot 42 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2592 georg.brandl easy "{ +(}".format(**{' +(': 44}) should produce ValueError: invalid 42 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2598 eric.smith rename test_support to support 39 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2621 brett.cannon patch, easy Add simplejson to Python 2.6/3.0 standard library 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2750 benjamin.peterson patch ctypes.util.find_library() doesn't find OS X .bundle or .so libr 14 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2783 benjamin.peterson easy Moving lib-tk to tkinter package 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2839 georg.brandl patch int() lies about base parameter 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2844 rhettinger patch bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get test_lock.test03_set_timeout crashes 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2858 gregory.p.smith 2to3 fixer to rename markupbase to _markupbase 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2861 quentin.gallet-gilles patch Problem with urllib and urllib2 in urlopen? 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2868 benjamin.peterson Rename repr to reprlib 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2880 brett.cannon Create the html package 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2882 brett.cannon Create the tkinter package 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2884 georg.brandl patch dict.has_key() expected in h2py.py. 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2893 georg.brandl Crash in ParseTupleAndKeywords when passing byte string keywords 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2895 georg.brandl cmathmodule.c compilation error 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2896 georg.brandl math.copysign(1, float('nan')) 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2900 marketdickinson test_urllib.py crashes with bus error on Darwin 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2905 georg.brandl ZeroDivisionError error message needs clarification 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2907 georg.brandl fix_imports new entries for tkinter rename 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2908 georg.brandl patch Logging TimedRotatingFileHandler Feature Request 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2914 vsajip PyObject_IsInstance() doesn't find bases named in type(name, bas 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2915 benjamin.peterson Revert copy_reg rename in 2.6 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2924 georg.brandl Allow set/frozenset for __all__ 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2928 Rhamphoryncus patch TimedRotatingFileHandler crashes on backup file deletion attempt 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2929 vsajip Cannot change variable defined in "__init__.py" after importing 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2930 georg.brandl Documenting Python: Syntax" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2932 benjamin.peterson "Documenting Python: Syntax" bug 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2933 georg.brandl set() comparisons do not play well with others 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2934 ncoghlan Unicode support for hashing algorithms 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2948 lemburg Tkinter.Misc has no __contains__ method 2061 days http://bugs.python.org/issue615772 georg.brandl sendmsg operation for unix sockets 1695 days http://bugs.python.org/issue814689 georg.brandl Text.edit_modified() fails 1451 days http://bugs.python.org/issue961805 georg.brandl patch bsddb3 testsuite failure when running more than one time 1369 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1010645 gregory.p.smith bsddb dbobj.DB.associate doesn't accept dbobj.DB param 1077 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1215023 gregory.p.smith Text.edit_modified() doesn't work 909 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1362475 gpolo patch thread + import => crashes? 87 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1720705 Rhamphoryncus Build on QNX 6 369 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1722225 loewis patch zipfile: Allow reading duplicate filenames 278 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1775025 georg.brandl patch Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 14 Full precision summation 12 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2819 11 Add memory footprint query 6 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2898 11 Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access of errno 133 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue1798 10 New class special method lookup change 2006 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue643841 8 Moving lib-tk to tkinter package 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2839 8 Implement PEP 3108 17 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2775 5 Unicode support for hashing algorithms 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2948 5 Allow set/frozenset for __all__ 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2928 5 2to3 fixer to rename markupbase to _markupbase 7 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2861 5 ctypes.util.find_library() doesn't find OS X .bundle or .so lib 14 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2783

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Re: [Python-Dev] Importing bsddb 4.6.21; with or without AES encryption?
by Trent Nelson 23 May '08

23 May '08

> I just committed bsddb3 4.7.0. Please install Berkeley DB >=4.7.25. I'll be working on this over the weekend. Trent.

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Importing bsddb 4.6.21; with or without AES encryption?
by Trent Nelson 23 May '08

23 May '08

I was about to commit an initial import of the bsddb 4.6.21 source to the 'external' area in the repo, which I obtained from the following URL: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html I downloaded the source that includes AES encryption, for no reason other than it was first on the list. I'm now wondering if we should only be importing the 'NC' source that doesn't contain any encryption? Jesus, does pybsddb use any of the Berkeley DB encryption facilities? Would anything break if we built the bsddb module without encryption? (Note that all of this only applies to Windows.) Trent.

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Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.
by Jesse Noller 23 May '08

23 May '08

I am looking for any questions, concerns or benchmarks python-dev has regarding the possible inclusion of the pyprocessing module to the standard library - preferably in the 2.6 timeline. In March, I began working on the PEP for the inclusion of the pyprocessing (processing) module into the python standard library[1]. The original email to the stdlib-sig can be found here, it includes a basic overview of the module: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/stdlib-sig/2008-March/000129.html The processing module mirrors/mimics the API of the threading module - and with simple import/subclassing changes depending on the code, allows you to leverage multi core machines via an underlying forking mechanism. The module also supports the sharing of data across groups of networked machines - a feature obviously not part of the core threading module, but useful in a distributed environment. As I am trying to finish up the PEP, I want to see if I can address any questions or include any other useful data (including benchmarks) in the PEP prior to publishing it. I am also intending to include basic benchmarks for both the processing module against the threading module as a comparison. -Jesse [1] Processing page: http://pyprocessing.berlios.de/

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buffer interface for C extensions
by Dan Lenski 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi all, I've written a small C extension to submit commands to SCSI devices via Linux's sg_io driver (for a camera hacking project). The extension is just a wrapper around a couple ioctl()'s with Pythonic exception handling thrown in. One of my extension methods is called like this from python: sg.write(fd, command[, data, timeout) Both command and data are binary strings. I would like to be able to use either a regular Python string or an array('B', ...) for these read-only arguments. So I tried to use the "t#" argument specifier to indicate that these arguments could be either strings or objects that implement the read- only buffer interface: if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "it#|t#i:write", &sg_fd, &cmd, &cmdLen, &buf, &bufLen, &timeout)) return NULL; Now, this works fine with strings, but when I call it with an array I get a TypeError: TypeError: write() argument 2 must be string or read-only character buffer, not array.array So, I then tried changing "t#" to "w#" to indicate that the arguments must implement the /read-write/ buffer interface. Now the array objects work, but when I try a string argument, I naturally get this error: TypeError: Cannot use string as modifiable buffer So here's what I don't understand. Why doesn't the "t#" argument specifier support read-write buffers as well as read-only buffers? Aren't read-write buffers a *superset* of read-only buffers?? Is there something I'm doing wrong or a quick fix to get this to work appropriately? Thanks for any help! Dan

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Trying to understand svn history (was: Buildbots have trouble checking out the repository due to recent changes.)
by Paul Moore 22 May '08

22 May '08

2008/5/12 Paul Moore <p.f.moore(a)gmail.com>: > Revision 63129 is not valid on case folding filesystems. In > particular, this horribly breaks using hg-svn to make a local mirror > of the Python repository: I'm still trying to identify what breaks in converting svn to Mercurial at around the time of your library renamings. Specifically, I cannot convert the svn repository history for r63104: >svn log -r63104 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r63104 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-12 00:04:27 +0100 (Mon, 12 May 2008) | 2 lines Moved the Queue module stub in lib-old. >From what I can see of the changes, you simply added a Lib/lib-old/Queue.py in that revision - Lib/queue.py was already there. But your description "Moved..." implies you did something slightly different (and the text of your original message on this thread suggests that you might have done a svn copy Lib/queue.py Lib/lib-old/Queue.py followed by an edit). I know it's a while ago but can you recall exactly what you did? Or can some svn guru tell me how to get svn to tell me exactly what operations it believes went on? This is something of a showstopper for converting Python svn->hg on Windows, and I'd like to identify and if at all possible fix the bug. Thanks, Paul

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vmgen based python interpretter
by Michal Revucky 22 May '08

22 May '08

hello everyone, i'm working on the branch: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release25-maint/ i'm trying to build a vmgen based interpreter for python: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/vmgen from vmgen's input file, which specifies the python's opcodes a c source is generated which may be included in ceval.c. when i include that generated source in ceval.c the whole interpreter crashes with this error: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1209710912 (LWP 28223)] PyObject_Malloc (nbytes=32) at Objects/obmalloc.c:747 747 if ((pool->freeblock = *(block **)bp) != NULL) { (gdb) so far i implemented only 4 opcodes (LOAD_CONST, PRINT_ITEM, PRINT_NEWLINE, RETURN_VALUE) on the other hand when i leave these 4 opcodes, as provided by ceval.c within the switch(opcode) statement every thing works well, the interpreter exits with an uknown opcode error, when an unknown opcode is executed. my question is, why does this segfault appear? as far as i know the PyObject_Malloc is only called by the compiler related code, and i changed code only in ceval.c it would would also be helpfull if someone could tell me, how to locate the code, which causes this SEG fault hopefully somebody can help me with that -- michal

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Re: [Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.
by Brett Cannon 21 May '08

21 May '08

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen(a)parc.com> wrote: >> If you can run a pure Python module >> that does not depend on any C extension, then that platform has the >> support needed to run Python. > > This is certainly a point of view. One that many end-users wouldn't > understand :-). Perhaps, but it's clear-cut. Is OS X not properly supported because it can't run the _winreg module? I just don't like labeling a platform as unsupported just because ctypes doesn't compile on it. -Brett

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