Mailman 3 August 2009 - Python-Dev

deprecated methods on array objects
by Jake McGuire Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

The python documentation says that the read() and write() methods on array objects have been deprecated since 1.5.1. I assume this is because their semantics are almost the exact opposite of read() and write() on a file-like object; array.read() reads data from a file into the array and array.write() writes data from the array to a file. This causes fatal confusion in code that checks for the existence of read() and write() to determine whether an object is file-like. Code such as httplib. … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] functools.compose to chain functions together
by Peter Harris Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

I am personally indifferent to this, even though I had in mind in PEP309, that compose would probably end up in there too. On the one hand, some people will keep on expecting it to be there. The ones that care about it will not be confused: they'll expect compose(f,g)(x) to be f(g(x)) as is proposed. It can't do any significant harm. On the other hand it's not likely to be used even as often as partial, which I always wanted mostly to make anonymous callables for Tkinter, not because … [View More]

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (08/21/09 - 08/28/09) 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. 2370 open (+23) / 16247 closed (+15) / 18617 total (+38) Open issues with patches: 935 Average duration of open issues: 657 days. Median duration of open issues: 410 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2339 (+23) pending 30 ( +0) Issues Created Or Reopened (39) … [View More]

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Adding a C Module to python source distribution
by Shashank Singh Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

Hi All, I am trying to add a module written in c to python source on Win32 using VC++ 9 Pro. I went through the available documentation but there doesn't seem to be any clear instruction on how to do that. Basically I opened pcbuild.sln in vc++, added the c file (xxx.c) to Modules/ directory. Building the solution after that works fine: xxx.c is compiled (no errors, no warnings) and the python executable gets created. But I am not able to import the module defined in xxx.c using that … [View More]

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quick PEP 387 comments
by Brett Cannon Aug. 28, 2009

Aug. 28, 2009

Is the PEP considering all non-private APIs public even if they are not documented? If so we might want to be up front about that and say so to make sure we are all very careful about making all non-essential APIs private (assuming this PEP gets accepted). And we might want to say that all code in 'test' sub-packages are not subject to backwards compatibility unless documented. I have a ton of support code in importlib.test that I do not want to have to maintain for public consumption as they … [View More]

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Problems with events in a numeric keyboard
by Martin Zugnoni Aug. 27, 2009

Aug. 27, 2009

Hi! I'm trying to catch the triple zero (000) key from a numeric keyboard but, I found that it's the same id that the single zero. So, when I press the triple zero key once, I receive three events from the single zero key. I need to make a disctintion between these keys, and use them to different functionalities. How can I do? Martín.

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No 2.4.7 release
by "Martin v. Löwis" Aug. 26, 2009

Aug. 26, 2009

I once announced that I would be working on releasing 2.4.7 this month. However, since no patches have been committed to 2.4.6, there is little point in making a release. As 2.4 is nearing its end-of-life soon, there likely won't be any 2.4.7 release. Python 2.5 has seen only two patches since 2.5.4. However, since several months have been passed since that release, I'll be creating a 2.5.5 release candidate within a few days. Further security releases of Python 2.5 will be made until … [View More]

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Support for Encrypted Zip as python scripts
by Shashank Singh Aug. 26, 2009

Aug. 26, 2009

There is an interesting suggestion (http://bugs.python.org/issue6749). to add support to run encrypted zip files as python scripts. No doubt this is a useful functionality to have but it would be great to have some comments on whether this can be(or even should be) feasibly added as an inbuilt support. -- Regards Shashank Singh Senior Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay shashank.sunny.singh(a)gmail.com http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~shashanksingh

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Re: [Python-Dev] Support for Encrypted Zip as python scripts
by Bugbee, Larry Aug. 25, 2009

Aug. 25, 2009

I like the idea, but... Here is a quick list of things to think about and if some of this has already been mentioned, sorry. Speed: Encryption speed has been mentioned. For short scripts this may not be a problem, although algorithms implemented in C would be faster. Strength: Passwords are [very] weak, especially if of the 6-10 alphanumeric variety. True secret keys where all bit combinations are used is stronger. Entering passwords has been mentioned but I believe only passwords were … [View More]

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Issue 1170: Unicode for ‘shlex’
by Ben Finney Aug. 23, 2009

Aug. 23, 2009

Howdy all, What is the procedure for finding out why an issue hasn't progressed? I don't want to fill the bug database with such noise. In the case of <URL:http://bugs.python.org/issue1170> (“shlex have problems with parsing unicode”), the problem is apparently addressed by a patch, assigned to that issue since 2007-12-22. There is no indication in the report why it's not yet applied. I'd really like this fixed in the 2.x series if possible. -- \ “… whoever claims any right … [View More]

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