Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-Dev

Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Sept. 19, 2008

Sept. 19, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/12/08 - 09/19/08) Python 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. 2035 open (+36) / 13696 closed (+24) / 15731 total (+60) Open issues with patches: 652 Average duration of open issues: 715 days. Median duration of open issues: 1793 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2022 (+36) pending 13 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (60) … [View More]

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What's New in 2.6 link wasn't what I expected
by skip＠pobox.com Sept. 19, 2008

Sept. 19, 2008

>From this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ I clicked the link labelled "What's new in Python 2.6rc2". This didn't take me to the What's New page. Instead it took me to: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else. Poking around I see that the 2.5 What's New document is at: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html but http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew26.html doesn't exist. … [View More]

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ssl module, non-blocking sockets and asyncore integration
by Giampaolo Rodola' Sept. 18, 2008

Sept. 18, 2008

Hi, I try to revamp a discussion I raised some time ago and which seems to be not solved yet. I'm interested in using the ssl module with asyncore but since there's no real documentation about how using ssl module with non-blocking sockets I've not been able to write something useful with it. I took a look at Test/test_ssl.py which seems to include a test consisting in an asyncore-based secure server but I noticed something strange: def __init__(self, conn, certfile): … [View More]

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FreeBSD 7 amd64 and large memory tests
by Andrew MacIntyre Sept. 18, 2008

Sept. 18, 2008

I noticed issue 3862 (http://bugs.python.org/issue3862), which appears to be exposed only on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 (perhaps 64 bit FreeBSD 7, but amd64 is the only 64bit hardware I can check). As far as I can make out from a couple of quick checks, this appears to be happening because the process is killed before the malloc() that exhausts the available swap space is allowed to report an out of memory condition. FreeBSD's default process virtual memory limit (ulimit -v) on both i386 and amd64 … [View More]

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RELEASED Python 2.6rc2 and 3.0rc1
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 18, 2008

Sept. 18, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the second and final planned release candidate for Python 2.6, as well as the first release candidate for Python 3.0. These are release candidates, so while they are not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and test them on your software. We expect only critical bugs to be fixed between now and the final … [View More]

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switching on -3 from within a program?
by Anthon van der Neut Sept. 17, 2008

Sept. 17, 2008

With a minor modification to the Makefile I was able to get mod_wsgi v2.3 to work with python2.6rc1. I promptly got a warning in my apache log files on the depcrecated use of 'sha' in the paste's cookie module, good! And easily fixed. After that I was looking for a way to switch on the -3 warnings from within my code to have extra warnings show up in my apache log file. After reading some documentation I tried from the python2.6 prompt: import sys sys.py3kwarning = True x = { 'abc': 1 }; x.… [View More]

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RELEASED Python 2.6rc1
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 17, 2008

Sept. 17, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Python 2.6. This is a release candidate, so while it is not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download the release and test it on your software. We expect only critical bugs to be fixed between now and the final 2.6 release, still scheduled for October 1st, 2008. There is one more … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] ',' precedence in documentation]
by Christopher Lee Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

> ----- Forwarded message from Guido van Rossum <guido(a)python.org> ----- > > Note that in any case, the 'in' operator binds more tightly than the > comma: e.g. f(x in y, z) means f((x in y), z). Exactly the point I was trying to make. As far as the user's concerned, an expression list x,y can itself be part of an expression; x in y is also an expression. Such expressions can be combined to form larger expressions, so it follows logically that you need to know which … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Python Regression Test Failures basics (1)
by Nick Coghlan Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

Neal Norwitz wrote: > test_epoll skipped -- kernel doesn't support epoll() ... > test_ioctl skipped -- Unable to open /dev/tty ... > test_multiprocessing skipped -- OSError raises on RLock creation, see issue 3111! ... > test test_normalization failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/tmp/python-test/local/lib/python2.6/test/test_normalization.py", line 90, in test_main > self.failUnless(X == NFC(X) == NFD(X) == NFKC(X) == NFKD(X), c) > AssertionError: … [View More]

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Weak Dictionary Iteration Behavior in Python 3
by Armin Ronacher Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

Hi everybody, In Python 2.x when iterating over a weak key dictionary for example, the common idom for doing that was calling dictionary.keys() to ensure that a list of all objects is returned it was safe to iterate over as a weak reference could stop existing during dict iteration which of course raises a runtime error by the dict iterator. This was documented behavior and worked pretty well, with the small problem that suddenly all references in the dict wouldn't die until iteration is over … [View More]

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