Mailman 3 May 2010 - Python-Dev

Issue #8610: Set default file system encoding to ascii on error?
by Victor Stinner May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

Python 3.0 introduced PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() and PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() functions. These functions fallback to UTF-8 if getting the file system encoding failed or the encoding is unknown (there is not nl_langinfo(CODESET) function). UTF-8 is not a good choice for the fallback because it's incompatible with other encodings like Latin1. I would like to fallback to ASCII on error which is compatible with all encodings (thanks to surrogateescape). I would like to ensure that … [View More]

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Running Clang 2.7's static analyzer over the code base
by Brett Cannon May 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

Since 2.7 is probably going to exist for a while, I am running Clang 2.7's static analyzer (``clang --static``) over trunk. It's mostly just finding stuff like unneeded variable initialization or variables that are never used (compilation is picking up unused returned values, almost all from PyObject_INIT). When I check in these changes I will do it file by file, but my question is how to handle Misc/NEWS. I have gone through the underscores and the 'a's in Modules and already have six … [View More]

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Fwd: broken mailing list links in PEP(s?)
by Michael Foord May 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

Hello all, It looks like the changes to the python-dev mailman archives broke some of the links in PEPs. All the best, Michael Foord -------- Original Message -------- Subject: broken mailing list links in PEP(s?) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:22:57 -0700 From: Bayle Shanks <bayle.shanks(a)gmail.com> To: webmaster(a)python.org On http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0225/ , in the section "Credits and archives", there are a bunch of links like http://mail.python.org/pipermail/… [View More]

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slight release schedule change
by Benjamin Peterson May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

Hi, I'm sorry I neglected to mention this before. I'm delaying all 2.7 releases a week because of beta 1's lateness. I've now updated PEP 373. So, beta 2 will be this Saturday. -- Regards, Benjamin

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Daily DMGs
by "Martin v. Löwis" May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

David Bolen and I started producing daily OSX installers, at http://www.python.org/dev/daily-dmg/ If you find problems with these, please report them to bugs.python.org. Regards, Martin

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Should we drop active support of OSF/1?
by Jesus Cea May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We don't have any buildbot backing this system. OSF/1 last version was in 1994, was picked by Digital (Tru64 Unix). Last version of Tru64 was released in late 2006. Now Digital is owned by HP with its own Unix (HP-UX). Maybe we can drop OSF/1 safely supporting Tru64 yet, but we don't have any buildbot running any of this systems... Deprecated systems are documented in PEP-11. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ … [View More]

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Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils
by Olemis Lang May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

Hello ! Often I have the contents to be written in a file at a given path that I know as well. I recently tried to find a function in stdlib to do that and to my surprise this is what I found : - Such function exists - It's `distutils.file_util.write_file` IMO the last place where people'd look for such a function is inside `distutils` package. Besides I reviewed modules listed under `File and directory access` category in `Library Reference` and found nothing even similar. Q: - Is it … [View More]

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Frequency of the dev docs autobuild
by Nick Coghlan May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

Does the online dev version of the docs build in response to docs checkins, or just once a day? (And is that written down somewhere and I've just forgotten where to look...) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan(a)gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Enhanced tracker privileges for "dangerjim" to do triage.
by Sean Reifschneider May 2, 2010

May 2, 2010

I'm trying to get a good friend of mine to start doing bug triage on Python. As part of my trying to mentor him on it, I've found that many of the common things I do in triage, like setting a priority for priorityless bugs, assigning them to people who obviously are the next step, requires enhanced privileges. He has no reputation in the Python community, so I'd be up for getting him started on things that require fewer privileges like verifying older patches still apply against newer Pythons, … [View More]

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PEP or issue recording rationale for allowing multiple context managers?
by Nick Coghlan May 2, 2010

May 2, 2010

I was looking for a reference for the addition of multiple context manager support to with statements in 3.1 and 2.7 and came up empty (aside from the initial python-ideas thread [1] that I linked to from PEP 377). I was hoping to find something that clearly spelled out: - the two major flaws in contextlib.nested* - the parallel with import statements for the precise chosen syntax - Guido's blessing to go ahead and do it *Those flaws being - that __init__/__new__ methods of inner context … [View More]

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