Mailman 3 February 2009 - Python-Dev

draft 3.1 release schedule
by Benjamin Peterson March 10, 2009

March 10, 2009

Here's a very tentative 3.1 release schedule. 3.1a1 March 7 (Saturday) 3.1a2 April 11 (Saturday) 3.1b1 May 2 (Saturday) 3.1b2 May 23 (Saturday) 3.1rc1 June 13 (Saturday) 3.1rc2 June 27 (Saturday) I'm interested in your feedback with regards to the amount of time in beta and RC phase. Do you think we need that much time? Otherwise, we could move the final release back sometime in mid June. -- Regards, Benjamin

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asyncore fixes in Python 2.6 broke Zope's version of medusa
by Sidnei da Silva March 8, 2009

March 8, 2009

I am working on getting Zope to run (or at least, start) with Python 2.6. It actually starts right now after applying some patches, which is amazing on itself, but it dies right away due to changes in asyncore that break Zope's internal version of medusa. I've opened a bug against Zope on Launchpad, but someone suggested that it might actually be a bug in python, in the sense that it changed asyncore in a backwards-incompatible way. I wouldn't go that far, since I think it's more likely that Zope's version of medusa is poking into asyncore internals instead: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/280020 I suspect a patch similar to this might be needed: http://codereview.appspot.com/744/diff/1/23 Anyone cares to comment? -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214

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How do I get commit access?
by Chris Withers March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Hi All, I want to work on these issues: http://bugs.python.org/issue1823 http://bugs.python.org/issue1874 ...and I'd also like to commit the patch I submitted with this one: http://bugs.python.org/issue1974 How do I go about getting commit access? When I do, I take it I work against the version of python I care about and then foreward port to the trunk and any other maintenence branches necessary? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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What type of object mmap.read_byte should return on py3k?
by Hirokazu Yamamoto March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Hello. I noticed mmap.read_byte returns 1-length unicode on py3k. I felt this was strange, so I created issue on bug tracker (http://bugs.python.org/issue5391) and Martin proposed this is suitable for discussion on python-dev. I'll quote messages on bug tracker here. I wrote: > On Python3000, mmap.read_byte returns str not bytes, and mmap.write_byte > accepts str. Is this intended behavior? > >>>> import mmap >>>> m = mmap.mmap(-1, 10) >>>> type(m.read_byte()) > <class 'str'> >>>> m.write_byte("a") >>>> m.write_byte(b"a") > > Maybe another possibility. read_byte() returns int which represents > byte, write_byte accepts int which represents byte. (Like b"abc"[0] > returns int not 1-length bytes) Martin wrote: > Indeed, I think it should use the "b" code, instead of the "c" code. > Please discuss this on python-dev, though. > > It might not be ok to backport this to 3.0, since it may break existing > code. > Furthermore, all other uses of the "c" code might need to be reconsidered.

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Instructions on using git mirror
by Neil Schemenauer March 2, 2009

March 2, 2009

I've revised my instructions on using the experimental git mirror of the Python SVN repository: http://python.ca/nas/tmp/git-notes.txt Stories of success or failure welcome. Neil

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Patch Ready for review
by Heracles March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

I have a patch submitted, with docs changes etc. The patch is to the curses library module, and adds support for color_set, addchstr, addchnstr, mvaddchstr, mvaddchnstr, mvwaddchstr, mvwaddchnstr, waddchstr, and waddchnstr. I am wondering what to expect next. How long will it be before it is applied etc. This is my first attempt to submit a patch to Python. Also, does anyone know who the main person is for running changes to the curses library I wanted to get guidance for implementing support for family of functions newterm, set_term, reset_term. The main question I have is to support these functions consistently, would it be recommended to implement a new Python Screen object? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Patch-Ready-for-review-tp22254109p22254109.html Sent from the Python - python-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Googlebot and the mail.python.org python-dev archive
by Nick Coghlan Feb. 28, 2009

Feb. 28, 2009

Is anyone else having trouble getting the python.org mail archive to turn up in Google searches for python-dev messages? I prefer to use that archive rather than one of the multitude of 3rd party archives when linking posts from PEPs and tracker issues, but for the last few weeks I've had to go find the messages directly on the archive pages rather than being able to grab them from a search. Example search (note that the top python.org hits are from 2006, but a 3rd party archive has the discussion I was after at the top of the list): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3Apython-dev+contextlib.nested&b… Searching the python.org archive specifically shows that the relevant recent messages aren't in the search index at all: http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:pipermail+inurl:python-dev+contextlib.… Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! [Now with blog post]
by tav Feb. 28, 2009

Feb. 28, 2009

> I take it back, we need to find all the trivial ones too. Agreed! > BTW Tav, you ought to create a small website for this challenge. A > blog post or wiki page would suffice. Done. http://tav.espians.com/a-challenge-to-break-python-security.html Please blog/retweet and of course, try the challenge yourselves =) -- love, tav plex:espians/tav | tav(a)espians.com | +44 (0) 7809 569 369 http://tav.espians.com | http://twitter.com/tav | skype:tavespian

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Duck-typing self
by Sebastian Rittau Feb. 27, 2009

Feb. 27, 2009

Hi! I am curious why the following will not work in Python: class foo(object): def bar(self): print self.attr class duck(object): attr = 3.14 foo.bar(duck()) Is it a design decision that duck-typing self does not work or is there a technical reason? From a practical standpoint it seems that being able to duck-type self has merit, for example in unit testing complex classes. - Sebastian

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Re: [Python-Dev] Adding support to curses library
by A.M. Kuchling Feb. 27, 2009

Feb. 27, 2009

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:52:29PM -0800, steve(a)integrityintegrators.net wrote: > Are you up for helping a little more? Sure, but please open an issue on http://bugs.python.org for this; back-and-forth over a particular patch is done in the bug tracker, not the python-dev mailing list. http://www.python.org/dev/ discusses how development is done. We also don't send around modified copies of entire files; http://www.python.org/dev/faq/#patches discusses how to make patches. --amk

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