Mailman 3 October 2009 - Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Announcing PEP 3136
by Karen Tracey 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

At 05:15 PM 9/30/2009, Yuvgoog Greenle wrote: >I like how python has a minimalistic and powerful syntax (-1 for the >break ___ PEP). > >Also, I really dislike the for/else ambiguity "butterflies". > >When is the else after a loop executed? >1. When the loop isn't entered at all. >2. When the loop terminates through exhaustion of the list (does >this include when the list was empty?) >3. When the loop didn't exit because of a break statement. > >HINTS: The way django does it is opposite the way python does it and >there may be more than one correct answer. Django's template language does not have for/else, it has for/empty: <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#for-empty>http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#for-empty This construct did come from an external snippet that used 'else' instead of 'empty'. However when it was integrated into Django the 'else' name was specifically rejected because it did the opposite of what for/else does in Python. Karen

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (09/25/09 - 10/02/09) 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. 2410 open (+17) / 16447 closed (+24) / 18857 total (+41) Open issues with patches: 958 Average duration of open issues: 673 days. Median duration of open issues: 430 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2376 (+17) pending 33 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (44) _______________________________ Mismatching use of memory APIs 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 reopened r.david.murray patch threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it gets 09/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6990 reopened pitrou patch, needs review PEP 314 inconsistency (authors/author/maintainer) 09/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue6992 reopened techtonik Python 3.1 interpreter Fatal Error on windows with unknown encod 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6995 created bahaelaila7 Python 2.6.2 & 3.1.1 Installer 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6996 created deepakp python26 compiled on snow leopard x86_64 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6997 created monway Bug in Tutorial (introduction.rst) 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6998 created cofi TypeError in pathfix.py 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue6999 created amcnabb patch optional second argument of string.capwords not documented 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7000 created MLModel turtle.py bug-fixes, backported from 3.1 [issue5923] 09/25/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7001 created gregorlingl patch help me to set variables - 64 bit 09/26/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7002 created ashish finish documentation of user local paths 09/26/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7003 created benjamin.peterson Py_RETURN_BOOL() convenience macro 09/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7004 created jon patch ConfigParser does not handle options without values 09/27/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7005 created mkindahl patch The replacement suggested for callable(x) in py3k is not equival 09/27/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7006 created milko.krachounov Tiny inconsistency in the orthography of "url encoded" in the do 09/27/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7007 created MLModel str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 09/27/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7008 created nickd random.randint docs 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7009 created jgsack Rounding when converting float tuple to str 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7010 created scientist47 tarinfo has problems with longlinks 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7011 created do3cc Tabs is better than spaces for indentation 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7012 created rohdef Httplib read routine is not tolerant to not well-formed chunked 09/28/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7013 created Andrei Korostelev patch Logging incompatible with IronPython 09/28/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7014 created michael.foord Getting call trace while executing "modules spam" at help prompt 09/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7015 created rishikesh patch .pyc files are set executable if the .py file is too 09/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7016 created stevenjd os.listdir behaviour 09/29/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7017 created bigaddo Recommend "*" over "#" in getargs.c typecodes 09/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7018 created pitrou unmarshaling of artificial strings can produce funny longs. 09/29/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7019 created cfbolz patch regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 09/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7020 created srid subprocess.Popen doesn't work without "executable=" 09/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7021 created hc Doc update for io module 09/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7022 created pakal Marshal doesn't release GIL while dumping 09/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7023 created zengke patch webbrowser : Could not open ftp server using webbrowser.open() 09/30/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7024 created hmo Python 3.1 and 3.2 (dev) opensearch.xml still references 3.0 09/30/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7025 created jon test_urllib: unsetting missing 'env' variable 10/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7026 created srid test_io.py: codecs.IncrementalDecoder is sometimes None 10/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7027 created srid Add int.hex for symmetry with float.hex 10/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7028 reopened mark.dickinson Improve pybench 10/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7029 created krisvale patch Update version{added,changed} entries in py3k unittest docs 10/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7030 created mark.dickinson add assertIsInstance 10/01/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7031 created georg.brandl patch, patch, easy, needs review Make assertMultilineEqual default for unicode string comparison 10/01/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7032 created michael.foord C/API - Document exceptions 10/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7033 created lekma While Loop Bug on a game of 21, help! 10/02/09 CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue7034 created PixelHead777 codecs error handlers lack documentation 10/02/09 http://bugs.python.org/issue7035 created olau Issues Now Closed (42) ______________________ Subprocess error with I/O redirection to Pipes 341 days http://bugs.python.org/issue4192 pakal os.popen2 and os.popen3 in python 2.6 incompatible with os.popen 221 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5329 pjenvey patch Python 3.0 grammar is ambiguous with the addition of star_expr 201 days http://bugs.python.org/issue5460 benjamin.peterson http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html#load-tests-prot 71 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6515 michael.foord csv.Sniffer.sniff on data with doublequotes doesn't set up the d 60 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6606 jtate patch Integer & Long types: Performance improvement of 1.6x to 2x for 42 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6713 mark.dickinson patch httplib and array do not play together well 33 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6790 pitrou patch, easy Mismatching use of memory APIs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6836 krisvale patch Test creation in unittest.TestProgram should be done in one plac 6 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6956 michael.foord Extension modules fail to build on OS X 10.6 using python.org 2. 8 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6957 ronaldoussoren Add Python command line flags to configure logging 10 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6958 vinay.sajip patch numpy extensions to distutils... are a source of improvements fo 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6968 tjreedy Add the SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS option to socket.ioctl 5 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6971 krisvale patch, patch, easy Compile error for Python-2.6.2 on Solaris 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6989 ashish threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it gets 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6990 pitrou patch, needs review logging encoding failes some situation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6991 naoki patch importing of "time" module is terribly slow 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6993 ndyankov enumerate dosctring has a typo 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6994 ezio.melotti Python 3.1 interpreter Fatal Error on windows with unknown encod 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6995 r.david.murray Python 2.6.2 & 3.1.1 Installer 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6996 deepakp python26 compiled on snow leopard x86_64 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6997 monway Bug in Tutorial (introduction.rst) 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6998 ezio.melotti TypeError in pathfix.py 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue6999 benjamin.peterson patch optional second argument of string.capwords not documented 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7000 ezio.melotti turtle.py bug-fixes, backported from 3.1 [issue5923] 3 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7001 r.david.murray patch help me to set variables - 64 bit 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7002 brett.cannon Py_RETURN_BOOL() convenience macro 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7004 jon patch str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7008 gvanrossum random.randint docs 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7009 orsenthil Rounding when converting float tuple to str 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7010 rhettinger tarinfo has problems with longlinks 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7011 do3cc Tabs is better than spaces for indentation 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7012 gvanrossum Logging incompatible with IronPython 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7014 michael.foord .pyc files are set executable if the .py file is too 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7016 r.david.murray os.listdir behaviour 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7017 bigaddo regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 2 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7020 srid subprocess.Popen doesn't work without "executable=" 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7021 hc Doc update for io module 1 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7022 pitrou Marshal doesn't release GIL while dumping 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7023 benjamin.peterson patch Python 3.1 and 3.2 (dev) opensearch.xml still references 3.0 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7025 benjamin.peterson add assertIsInstance 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7031 georg.brandl patch, patch, easy, needs review While Loop Bug on a game of 21, help! 0 days http://bugs.python.org/issue7034 PixelHead777 Top Issues Most Discussed (10) ______________________________ 27 str.title() misbehaves with apostrophes 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7008 27 PEP 314 inconsistency (authors/author/maintainer) 4 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6992 23 zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path 10 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6972 14 no longer possible to hash arrays 135 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue6071 11 ssl.SSLSocket.recv() implementation may not work with non-block 380 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue3890 10 regression in pywin32 build due to 2.6.3rc1 2 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue7020 9 unmarshaling of artificial strings can produce funny longs. 3 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7019 9 httplib and array do not play together well 33 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6790 7 Add int.hex for symmetry with float.hex 0 days open http://bugs.python.org/issue7028 6 threading.local subclasses don't cleanup their state and it get 0 days closed http://bugs.python.org/issue6990

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Python 2.6.3
by Barry Warsaw 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

I had previously wanted to release Python 2.6.3 over the summer, but for various personal reasons, the summer was just too insane. I'd like to reschedule a 2.6.3 release, shooting for final release on 25- September. We should probably do a release candidate, so I'd like to make that on 23-September. Does anybody have objections to that schedule? If not, I'll try to spend some time over the next few days looking at outstanding bugs, and marking release blockers, etc. -Barry

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