Mailman 3 May 2008 - Python-Dev

oct and hex Py3k warnings
by Benjamin Peterson May 19, 2008

May 19, 2008

I know Guido has opposed adding Py3k warnings to oct and hex for "practical reasons," but I would like to make the case again. future_buitlins oct and hex will give you the correct Py3k behavior, but 2to3 can't convert old hex and oct usage to the new ones. That's why is would be helpful to warn about it and encourage people to import from future_builtins. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."

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Visual Studio 2008 compiler option EHsc ?
by Jim Kleckner May 18, 2008

May 18, 2008

In building a package with several platforms, I ran across the warning message below from Visual Studio 2008. Should we add the /EHsc option to the compile_options in distutils for MSVC? Or is it more complex than that... This link describes the warning: http://tinyurl.com/4fmjue http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2axwkyt4.aspx This link describes a patch: http://tinyurl.com/63bqo2 http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2007-January/025527.ht… === Warning message: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\xstring(2092) : warning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled. Specify /EHsc C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\xstring(2083) : while compiling class template member function 'void std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>::_Copy(unsigned int,unsigned int)' with [ _Elem=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Ax=std::allocator<char> ] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\xstring(2221) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' being compiled with [ _Elem=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Ax=std::allocator<char> ]

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Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories
by Nick Coghlan May 18, 2008

May 18, 2008

A few months ago, 2.6 & 3.0 gained the ability to execute zipfiles and directories containing a __main__.py file (see [1] for details). The idea is that a whole application can be bundled into a zipfile containing a __main__.py module in its root directory, and then passed directly to the interpreter for execution, with the zipfile being inserted as the first entry on sys.path to allow easy access to the rest of the application code. It is inspired by Java's JAR option, but not needing an explicit interpreter option makes it more shebang friendly on *nix systems (it can also be mapped more easily to the existing Python file type handling on Windows). The ability to also execute directories containing a __main__.py was something of a side effect of the implementation technique, but was also considered valuable as it makes it much easier to develop such bundled applications (using a directory most of the time, and then bundling into a single zipfile prior to release). The part I'm struggling with now is where to document the way this feature works. Currently, the only real documentation we have of the command line invocation is in section 2.1 of the tutorial, and the idea of packaging whole applications as zipfiles seems far too esoteric to be covering it there. It doesn't really seem to fit in section 6 (covering modules and packages) either. Do we need a new appendix to the tutorial which goes into detail about the CPython interpreter's command line options, environment variables and details on what can be executed? Cheers, Nick. [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1739468 -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org

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Optimization of Python ASTs: How should we deal with constant values?
by Thomas Lee May 18, 2008

May 18, 2008

Hi all, I've been working on optimization of the AST, including the porting of the old bytecode-level optimizations to the AST level. A few questions have come up in the process of doing this, all of which are probably appropriate for discussion on this list. The code I'm referring to here can be found in the tlee-ast-optimize branch. Most of the relevant code is in Python/optimize.c and Python/peephole.c. Nearly all of the bytecode-level optimizations have been moved to the AST optimizer with a few exceptions. Most of those waiting to be ported are stuck in limbo due to the fact we can't yet inject arbitrary PyObject constants into the AST. Examples are tuples of constants and the optimization of "LOAD_GLOBAL/LOAD_NAME None" as "LOAD_CONST None". This leaves us with a few options: 1. A new AST expr node for constant values for types other than Str/Num I imagine this to be something like Const(PyObject* v), which is effectively translated to a "LOAD_CONST v" by the compiler. This trades the purity of the AST for a little practicality. A "Const" node has no real source representation, it would exist solely for the purpose of injecting PyObject constants into the AST. 2. Allow arbitrary annotations to be applied to the AST as compiler hints. For example, each AST node might have an optional dict that contains a set of annotation values. Then when traversing the AST, the compiler might do something along the lines of: if (expr->annotations) { PyObject* constvalue = PyDict_GetItemString(expr->annotations, "constantvalue"); if (constvalue) ADDOP_O(c, LOAD_CONST, constvalue, consts) else VISIT(c, expr, expr) } This is a more general solution if we want to keep other compiler hints down the track, but unless somebody can think of another use case this is probably overkill. 3. Keep these particular optimizations at the bytecode level. It would be great to be able to perform the optimizations at a higher level, but this would require no effort at all. This would mean two passes over the same code at two different levels. If anybody familiar with this stuff could weigh in on the matter, it would be much appreciated. I've got a list of other issues that I need to discuss here, but this would be a great start. Thanks, Tom

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Possible problem that may be caused by Tkinter renaming
by Guilherme Polo May 17, 2008

May 17, 2008

Hello, I smell a problem caused by this line at tkinter/__init__.py: tkinter = _tkinter # b/w compat for export This was fine when tkinter was a Tkinter module, but I believe it would be better to rename this to something else. Given that python has a lot of users, I'm sure you will be able to find all sort of crazy things over the internet and one of them could be: import tkinter from tkinter import * something = tkinter._default_root Which is not that crazy at all, for some values of crazy, but will fail now. Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

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platform module testing
by Benjamin Peterson May 17, 2008

May 17, 2008

At the moment, the test for the platform module merely calls each function. I realize that this is a hard module to test well, but are there some assumptions we can make? For example, if sys.platform is 'java', can it be assumed that java_ver is going to return something which is not empty. When sys.platform is 'darwin' and the gestalt module is present, is it reasonable to require that a empty tuple not be returned? -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."

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How best to handle the docs for a renamed module?
by Brett Cannon May 17, 2008

May 17, 2008

For the sake of argument, let's consider the Queue module. It is now named queue. For 2.6 I plan on having both Queue and queue listed in the index, with Queue deprecated with instructions to use the new name. But what to do about all the references. Should we leave them pointing at Queue to lessen confusion for people who read about some module on some other site that isn't using the new name, or update everything in 2.6 to use the new name? -Brett

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lib2to3, need some light on the imports fixer
by Guilherme Polo May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

Hello, Would someone tell me how can I add a new entry in the MAPPING dict in the lib2to3/fixes/fix_imports.py that does the following: "import A" gets fixed as "import C.D as A" Right now it is fixing by doing "import C.D" and changing several other lines in the code to use this new "C.D" name. I wanted to avoid these changes if possible. Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

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Summary of Tracker Issues
by Tracker May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (05/09/08 - 05/16/08) 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. 1874 open (+61) / 12843 closed (+30) / 14717 total (+91) Open issues with patches: 558 Average duration of open issues: 704 days. Median duration of open issues: 1397 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 1852 (+61) pending 22 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (92) _______________________________ Exception state lives too long in 3.0 05/13/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2507 reopened collinwinter patch Integer right shift raises OverflowError when second operand is 05/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2804 created marketdickinson patch 2to3 doesn't correct divisions 05/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2805 created gpolo Py30a5: Tk Menu Alt-f behaves differently Linux vs Windows 05/09/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2806 created mark Remove the API PyUnicode_AsString() 05/09/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2807 created alexandre.vassalotti asynchat forgets packets when push is called from a thread 05/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2808 created xix xeaon string docstring doesn't mention that ' '.split() != ' '.split(' 05/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2809 created Neil Muller patch _winreg.EnumValue fails when the registry data includes multibyt 05/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2810 created stutzbach doctest doesn't treat unicode literals as specified by the file 05/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2811 created neves Document property.getter/setter/deleter etc 05/10/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2812 created benjamin.peterson patch No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat 05/10/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2813 created duaneb Remove old classes from mailbox module 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2814 created hdiogenes patch Python Manuals: horizontal scrolling broken 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2815 created tjreedy Quote-type recognition bug 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2816 created chester Make Python create a tuple with one element in a clean way 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2817 created chester pulldom cannot handle xml file with large external entity proper 05/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2818 created hanselda Full precision summation 05/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2819 created MrJean1 patch Remove mac modules 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2820 created benjamin.peterson unittest.py sys.exit error 05/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2821 created acgetchell Quote-type recognition bug [badly fixed last time] 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2822 created chester "Report bug" links 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2823 created techtonik zipfile to handle duplicate files in archive 05/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2824 created techtonik Quote-type recognition bug [got a patch!] 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2825 created chester patch safe_substitute() and substitute() 05/11/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2826 created chester IDLE 3.0a5 cannot handle UTF-8 05/11/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2827 created sven.siegmund Clean up undoc.rst 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2828 created brett.cannon easy Copy cgi.parse_qs() to urllib.parse 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2829 created brett.cannon Copy cgi.escape() to html 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2830 created brett.cannon Adding start to enumerate() 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2831 created scottdial patch Line numbers reported by extract_stack are offset by the #-*- en 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2832 created ddvoinikov __exit__ silences the active exception 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2833 created ddvoinikov re.IGNORECASE not Unicode-ready 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2834 created sven.siegmund Py30a5: webbrowser.open() inf recursion 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2835 created mark str.format() documentation needs to be backported to 2.6 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2836 created eric.smith 26backport OpenID wannabe 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2837 created techtonik Verify callback for SSL 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2838 created ruben Moving lib-tk to tkinter package 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2839 created gpolo patch Expat parser locks XML source file if ContentHandler raises an e 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2840 created craigneuro Windows: "Runtime Error!" crash from pythonw.exe (3.0a5) 05/12/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2841 created tjreedy Dictionary methods: inconsistency 05/12/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2842 created chester New methods for existing Tkinter widgets 05/13/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2843 created gpolo int() lies about base parameter 05/13/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2844 created jwilk patch shutil.copy2() copies permission bits 05/13/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2845 created igs Gzip cannot handle zero-padded output + patch 05/13/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2846 created tadek patch Remove cl usage from aifc 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2847 created brett.cannon Remove mimetools usage from the stdlib 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2848 created brett.cannon Remove usage of rfc822 from the stdlib 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2849 created brett.cannon Augmenting the Windows build to support code signing. 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2850 created Trent.Nelson Eliminate Perl legacy in re flag names 05/14/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2851 created mark sidebar directive fails 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2852 created coderanger *** glibc detected *** python: double free or corruption 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2853 created nuddelaug Add gestalt back into Python 3.0 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2854 created brett.cannon patch lookkey should INCREF/DECREF startkey around PyObject_RichCompar 05/14/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2855 created Rhamphoryncus patch os.listdir doc should mention that Unicode decoding can fail 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2856 created brodierao add codec for java modified utf-8 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2857 created phr bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get test_lock.test03_set_timeout crashes 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2858 created gregory.p.smith sphinx and virtualenv 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2859 created peterK re module fails to handle digits in byte strings 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2860 created scoder Patch to rename markupbase to _markupbase 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2861 created quentin.gallet-gilles patch cleanup of freelist management 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2862 created aimacintyre patch, patch Generator __name__ and better repr() 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2863 created georg.brandl patch, patch etree: Add XPath documentation 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2864 created guettli syntax error in fix_imports.py 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2865 created Tinctorius patch syntax error in fix_imports.py 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2866 created Tinctorius patch curses-howto link in curses module documentation gives a 404 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2867 created Devin Jeanpierre Problem with urllib and urllib2 in urlopen? 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2868 created ambarish Wrong doc for `calendar.Calendar.iterweekdays` 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2869 created yogi patch cmathmodule.c compile error 05/15/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2870 created Juno store thread.get_ident() thread identifier inside threading.Thre 05/15/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2871 created irmen Remove commands for PEP 3108 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2872 created brett.cannon Remove htmllib use in the stdlib 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2873 created brett.cannon Remove use of the stat module in the stdlib 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2874 created brett.cannon Rename the thread module to _thread 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2875 created brett.cannon Backport UserDict move in 3.0 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2876 created brett.cannon Backport UserString move from 3.0 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2877 created brett.cannon Backport UserList move in 3.0 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2878 created brett.cannon Rename _winreg to winreg 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2879 created brett.cannon Rename repr to reprlib 05/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2880 created brett.cannon Create the dbm package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2881 created brett.cannon Create the html package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2882 created brett.cannon Create the http package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2883 created brett.cannon patch Create the tkinter package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2884 created brett.cannon patch Create the urllib package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2885 created brett.cannon Create the xmlrpc package 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2886 created brett.cannon bsddb 4.6.4 needs to be ported to Python 3.0 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2887 created alexandre.vassalotti pprint produces different output in 2.6 and 3.0 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2888 created alexandre.vassalotti curses for windows (alternative patch) 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2889 created techtonik O_ASYNC and FASYNC should be defined if available 05/16/08 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue2890 created cartman patch urllib not handling ftp servers that do not support REST 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2891 created daggett improve cElementTree iterparse error handling 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2892 created hniksic dict.has_key() expected in h2py.py. 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2893 created dbinger 2to3 discards comments before import statements 05/16/08 http://bugs.python.org/issue2894 created georg.brandl Issues Now Closed (81) ______________________ Patch to rename *Server modules to lower-case 266 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1000 brett.cannon patch Patch to rename HTMLParser module to lower_case 266 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1002 brett.cannon patch Patches to rename Queue module to queue 264 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1005 georg.brandl patch tracebacks from list comps (probably other comps) don't show fu 262 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1025 georg.brandl "internal" zipimport.zipimporter feature untested 199 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1326 georg.brandl patch PEP 341 is not reflected in the documentation 125 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1760 georg.brandl o(n*n) marshal.dumps performance for largish objects with patch 121 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1792 akuchling patch, easy Make .pypirc handle multiple servers 116 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1858 tarek patch test_cl.py converted to unittest 94 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2043 georg.brandl patch, easy Interpreter crash on shutdown 90 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2077 georg.brandl Link error of gethostbyaddr and gethostname in Python Manuals (t 85 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2129 georg.brandl int operations no longer overflow 81 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2147 georg.brandl TestCase.tmpdir(), TestCase.mock() 82 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2156 jcea Fix hasattr's exception problems 75 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2196 benjamin.peterson patch urllib2. strange behavior for getting chuncked transfer-ecnoded 67 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2243 georg.brandl rlcompleter raises Exception on bad input 65 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2250 georg.brandl patch, easy os.strerror does not check for out of range argument 54 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2413 georg.brandl patch inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation 50 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2452 georg.brandl ldexp(x,n) misbehaves when abs(n) is large 45 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2487 marketdickinson patch duplicate Misc.lower 39 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2535 georg.brandl patch, easy textwrap handling of hyphenation 22 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2659 georg.brandl patch The position of special value tables (cmathmodule.c) 26 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2664 marketdickinson patch tk.rst possibly wrong ? 13 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2709 georg.brandl patch unittest.makeSuite undocumented and "obsolete" - but what to use 12 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2721 georg.brandl documentation -- do serversockets work with ipv6 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2741 georg.brandl example code does not work 9 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2742 georg.brandl patch A socket example code shown in doc doesn't work on FreeBSD 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2763 georg.brandl Doubtfull code in 'doctest.DocTestSuite' 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2766 georg.brandl "doctest.DocTestCase.debug" clears "test.globs" too early 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2767 georg.brandl Subversion 1.5 Working Copies Break Setuptools 7 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2770 georg.brandl set_swap_bodies is unsafe 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2778 Rhamphoryncus patch Patch to flush unittest output 4 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2787 georg.brandl patch Comparsion datetime objects with None 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2789 tjreedy patch Figure directive not handled for latex writing in Sphinx 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2794 georg.brandl patch Crash on non-Windows if Python runs from a non-ASCII directory 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2798 amaury.forgeotdarc patch make htmlhelp creates python30a5.chm but msi.py expects pydoc.ch 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2800 loewis Py30a5 float.is_integer() raises ValueError 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2801 marketdickinson str.format() :n integer output 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2802 eric.smith heapq.heappush called with too few arguments in sched.py 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2803 georg.brandl patch Integer right shift raises OverflowError when second operand is 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2804 marketdickinson patch Remove the API PyUnicode_AsString() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2807 alexandre.vassalotti string docstring doesn't mention that ' '.split() != ' '.split(' 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2809 davidfraser patch Document property.getter/setter/deleter etc 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2812 georg.brandl patch Remove old classes from mailbox module 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2814 georg.brandl patch Python Manuals: horizontal scrolling broken 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2815 georg.brandl Quote-type recognition bug 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2816 chester Make Python create a tuple with one element in a clean way 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2817 chester Remove mac modules 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2820 brett.cannon Quote-type recognition bug [badly fixed last time] 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2822 gvanrossum "Report bug" links 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2823 georg.brandl Quote-type recognition bug [got a patch!] 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2825 gvanrossum patch safe_substitute() and substitute() 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2826 georg.brandl Adding start to enumerate() 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2831 georg.brandl patch Py30a5: webbrowser.open() inf recursion 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2835 amaury.forgeotdarc str.format() documentation needs to be backported to 2.6 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2836 georg.brandl 26backport OpenID wannabe 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2837 loewis Verify callback for SSL 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2838 janssen Dictionary methods: inconsistency 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2842 gvanrossum int() lies about base parameter 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2844 loewis patch shutil.copy2() copies permission bits 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2845 georg.brandl Eliminate Perl legacy in re flag names 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2851 gvanrossum Generator __name__ and better repr() 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2863 georg.brandl patch, patch syntax error in fix_imports.py 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2865 benjamin.peterson patch syntax error in fix_imports.py 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2866 collinwinter patch curses-howto link in curses module documentation gives a 404 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2867 georg.brandl Wrong doc for `calendar.Calendar.iterweekdays` 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2869 georg.brandl patch cmathmodule.c compile error 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2870 christian.heimes Rename repr to reprlib 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2880 alexandre.vassalotti O_ASYNC and FASYNC should be defined if available 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue2890 georg.brandl patch Text widget, bindtags and Tabs 2541 days http://bugs.python.org/issue429031 gpolo TelnetPopen3, TelnetBase, Expect split 1879 days http://bugs.python.org/issue708007 lkcl patch mailbox should use email not rfc822 1789 days http://bugs.python.org/issue756982 georg.brandl patch, easy String interpolation needs PEP 237 update 1168 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1153769 georg.brandl patch using some_re.sub() often imports sre.__doc__ 1038 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1234985 georg.brandl pdb: implement "until",fix for 1248119 991 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1267629 benjamin.peterson patch 'imp' documentation does not mention that lock is re-entrant 496 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1625509 akuchling patch potential clash with C++ in ceval.h 467 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1649238 georg.brandl easy pprint handles depth argument incorrectly 374 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1712742 georg.brandl fix for 1712742: corrects pprint's handling of 'depth' 374 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1713041 georg.brandl patch, easy PLATFORM macro in PC/pyconfig.h already defined by Apache 310 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1749567 georg.brandl Pickle fails on BeautifulSoup's navigableString instances 299 days http://bugs.python.org/issue1757062 georg.brandl Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 30 Implement PEP 3108 10 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2775 14 Full precision summation 5 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2819 11 O_ASYNC and FASYNC should be defined if available 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2890 10 Adding start to enumerate() 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2831 10 Integer right shift raises OverflowError when second operand is 1 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2804 9 IDLE ignores module change before restart 12 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2755 8 mailbox should use email not rfc822 1789 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue756982 7 curselection() in Tkinter.py should return ints 1595 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue869780 7 int() lies about base parameter 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue2844 6 add codec for java modified utf-8 2 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue2857

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] Distutils & configparser rename
by M.-A. Lemburg May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

On 2008-05-16 15:28, Rasmus Andersson wrote: > > On 16 maj 2008, at 15.00, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> On 2008-05-15 22:33, A.M. Kuchling wrote: >>> <snip> >> >> So there already is a lot of porting effort needed to support >> a reasonable number of targets. >> >> I don't think it takes a lot of effort to keep distutils >> running with Python 2.3 and 2.4. > > Speaking of which; is there any reliable statistics of Python versions > and platforms? Would be really interesting! Reliable statistics are hard to obtain, since Python is distributed along with many Unix distributions, as part of many products, and also in source form (where you basically lose any platform or Python version information). FWIW, these are the stats for our OSS Python package egenix-mx-base: Downloads egenix-mx-base 3.0 in 2008: Python 1.5.2: 0 Python 2.0 : 0 Python 2.1 : 31 Python 2.2 : 54 Python 2.3 : 483 Python 2.4 : 3368 Python 2.5 : 7504 Source ZIP : 4238 Source TGZ : 2918 These are just downloads, so likely new installations (the 3.0 version was released about one year ago). It's hard to tell what the installed user base looks like, esp with respect to the used Python versions. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 16 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611

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