Mailman 3 June 2009 - Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Status of 2.7 and 3.2
by Eric Pruitt June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009

I am in the process of implementing a number of often requested features and proposed patches in the subprocess module for my Google Summer of Code 2009 project. For information on my progress, check out my blog located at * http://subdev.blogspot.com/* <http://subdev.blogspot.com/>. Any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. > Just my 0.02 cents, but struggling with all warts of 2.5 subprocessing > > in Windows I would vote for more time for stabilizating things - … [View More]

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Status of 2.7 and 3.2
by Terry Reedy June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009

2.7 Once upon a time, the plan was to come out with 2.6 and 3.0, and then after the usual interval, 2.7 and 3.1. As it turned out, 3.0 came out 3 months after 2.6, but, as it typical of x.0 releases, had some flaws leading to 3.1 now just 6 month later. I have thought that 2.7 was now to come out instead with 3.2 and would include backported 3.2 new features. Others expect 2.7 to come out soon after 3.1 and to only contain new 3.1 features. So Guido or someone, please clarify: is 2.7 … [View More]

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker June 12, 2009

June 12, 2009

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (06/05/09 - 06/12/09) 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. 2225 open (+39) / 15869 closed (+26) / 18094 total (+65) Open issues with patches: 882 Average duration of open issues: 652 days. Median duration of open issues: 402 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2197 (+39) pending 28 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (68) … [View More]

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Adding key and reverse args to bisect
by David A. Barrett June 11, 2009

June 11, 2009

I propose adding the key parameter to the bisect.bisect routines. This would allow it to be used on lists with an ordering other than the one "natural" to the contained objects. (and anywhere else it makes sense in the bisect module). Would this be easy enough to do? It looks like the main difficulty may have to do with the C implementation. I've also noticed that sort appears far faster; is the C implementation working as expected? It may be nice to have the reverse parameter as well, … [View More]

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Rewrite os.popen using subprocess.Popen?
by Nestor June 10, 2009

June 10, 2009

pydoc.py uses os.popen once on line 1359. According to the documentation that function is deprecated since Python 2.6. Does it make sense to rewrite that line using the newer subprocess instead? I am asking because os.popen stopped working for me in Python 3.1 but I don't know if it is worth investing time in a module that is deprecated when the newer one does work. http://bugs.python.org/issue6236

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Tags from closed branch heads?
by Dirkjan Ochtman June 9, 2009

June 9, 2009

So ca8d05e1f1d1 changed the default for repo.heads() to closed=False, so that calls to heads() by default will not return closed heads. Unfortunately, this also means that any tags from those heads will not be considered anymore. That seems inadvertent at best, and may be should be reverted. Conceptually, it seems wrong that deleting a branch would also delete all the tags from it. I'd like to propose this change: diff --git a/mercurial/localrepo.py b/mercurial/localrepo.py --- a/mercurial/… [View More]

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xmlrpc and http/1.1
by Kristján Valur Jónsson June 9, 2009

June 9, 2009

Hello there. I've been doing some work on xmlrpc for CCP in the last weeks. I'm trying to communicate the results of this back to the python trunk. I've had the following issues open for a while now: http://bugs.python.org/issue6096 http://bugs.python.org/issue6099 I would appreciate some comments on this. Moving forward, I'd like to add support for the "gzip" content encoding for XMLRPC requests and responses. K

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Cannot set PYTHONPATH with big paths with Python 3.0 and 3.1
by Fabio Zadrozny June 9, 2009

June 9, 2009

Hi all, I've reported bug http://bugs.python.org/issue5924 some time ago and I think it's a release blocker -- it seems easy to fix, but I don't have time to actually submit a patch, so, I'd like to draw attention to it, especially as a release candidate is already out. Cheers, Fabio

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Draft PEP 385: Migrating from svn to Mercurial
by Dirkjan Ochtman June 8, 2009

June 8, 2009

So, a while ago Martin von Löwis asked who would champion the migration to Mercurial, and I volunteered. He asked me to produce a PEP outlining which steps to take, which I've been working on. The PEP is numbered 385, and is just about ready for your review. I'd really welcome any sort of feedback or questions about Mercurial and surrounding tools relevant to the migration project (I'm happy to answer other questions as well, but maybe python-dev is not the appropriate forum for that -- instead,… [View More]

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Roundup keywords for bug tracking
by anatoly techtonik June 8, 2009

June 8, 2009

It is impossible to edit roundup keywords and this takes away the flexibility in selecting bugs related to a module/function/test or some other aspect of development. For example, I need to gather all subprocess bugs in one query and things that won't be fixed in deprecated os.popen() into another. In Trac I would use "subprocess" and "os.popen" keywords. On ohloh I would add similar tags (if bugs were software) without, but I can't do anything about Python roundup. Is there any reason for such restriction? --anatoly t.

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