Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-Dev

Not releasing rc1 tonight
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not going to release rc1 tonight. There are too many open release blockers that I don't want to defer, and I'd like the buildbots to churn through the bsddb removal on all platforms. Let me first thank Benjamin, Brett, Mark and Antoine for their help on IRC tonight. Here are the issues I'm not comfortable with deferring: 3640 test_cpickle crash on AMD64 Windows build 874900 threading module can deadlock after fork 3574 compile() … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r66321 - in python/trunk: Doc/library/warnings.rst Lib/asynchat.py Lib/bsddb/test/test_early_close.py Lib/mimetools.py Lib/test/test___all__.py Lib/test/test_exceptions.py Lib/test/test_hmac.py Lib/test/test_import.py Lib/test/test_macostools.py Lib/test/test_pep352.py Lib/test/test_py3kwarn.py Lib/test/test_random.py Lib/test/test_re.py Lib/test/test_struct.py Lib/test/test_structmembers.py Lib/test/test_sundry.py Lib/test/test_support.py Lib/test/test_symtable.py Lib/tes
by M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

On 2008-09-09 02:49, brett.cannon wrote: > Author: brett.cannon > Date: Tue Sep 9 02:49:16 2008 > New Revision: 66321 > > Log: > warnings.catch_warnings() now returns a list or None instead of the custom > WarningsRecorder object. This makes the API simpler to use as no special object > must be learned. > > Closes issue 3781. > Review by Benjamin Peterson. This sounds a lot like a feature. Why was it added just before RC1 ? > Modified: > python/… [View More]

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Add python.exe to PATH environment variable
by Giampaolo Rodola' Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

Hi, I've always found it strange that Python Windows installers never managed to add the python executable to the PATH environment variable. Are there plans for adding such a thing? Thanks in advance --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/

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Re: [Python-Dev] [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0
by Raymond Hettinger Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

I think this should be deferred to Py3.1. This decision was not widely discussed and I think it likely that some users will be surprised and dismayed. The release candidate seems to be the wrong time to yank this out (in part because of the surprise factor) and in part because I think the change silently affects shelve performance so that the impact may be significantly negative but not readily apparent. We don't have to take this out. So why do it hastily at the last minute and without … [View More]

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constness of interpreter data
by Torne Wuff Sept. 8, 2008

Sept. 8, 2008

libpython2.5.a contains quite a lot of .data that doesn't look like it needs to be writable (my minimal interpreter binary has 105KB of writable allocated data). A lot of these symbols look like they could just be tagged const with no other changes to the interpreter; some of them would require a proliferation of constness. I'm a bit new at this, though, and it's possible that I'm wrong about some/most/all of these, so I'm wondering what people think. Attached is a patch which adds const to … [View More]

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2.6 doc searching issue?
by skip＠pobox.com Sept. 8, 2008

Sept. 8, 2008

>From this page: http://docs.python.org/dev/index.html I searched for "csv" and got just one hit: http://docs.python.org/dev/contents.html?highlight=csv Shouldn't it have at least matched the docs for the csv module itself, not just the table of contents? Thx, Skip

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xmlrpc via proxy for bzr and bugzilla in 2.6
by techtonik Sept. 6, 2008

Sept. 6, 2008

With 2.6rc1 at the doors people are asking if xmlrpclib will be able to communicate through a proxy? It causes bzr and bugzilla tools to fail if used behind firewall, and there is no easy workaround for users. http://bugs.python.org/issue648658 -- --anatoly t.

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site.py and the checkout builddir
by Benjamin Peterson Sept. 6, 2008

Sept. 6, 2008

In a checkout, site.py is currently responsible for adding the distutils extension module builddir to sys.path. Usually, this is unproblematic. However, when the initialization code needed by site (in this case the standard io streams and the builtin open) relies on C modules added from the builddir in site.py, it causes silent errors. The calls to initstdio and initsite were moved to having the site initialization first in r62778, so that _bytesio and _stringio could be used when io was loaded.… [View More]

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2.6b3 and 3.0b3 Windows installers
by LRN Sept. 6, 2008

Sept. 6, 2008

I was wondering, when new installers will be published? I made one on my own ( see http://lrn.1986.li/other/python-2.6.14127-x86.msi ), but i am not sure about it's correctness.

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Sept. 5, 2008

Sept. 5, 2008

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/29/08 - 09/05/08) 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. 2023 open (+35) / 13586 closed (+21) / 15609 total (+56) Open issues with patches: 642 Average duration of open issues: 710 days. Median duration of open issues: 1765 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2009 (+35) pending 14 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (57) … [View More]

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