Mailman 3 June 2010 - Python-Dev

Are PyCFunctions supposed to invisibly consume self when used as a method?
by Brett Cannon June 16, 2010

June 16, 2010

The logging module taught me something today about the difference of a function defined in C and a function defined in Python:: import importlib class Base: def imp(self, name): return self.import_(name) class CVersion(Base): import_ = __import__ class PyVersion(Base): import_ = importlib.__import__ CFunction().imp('tokenize') PyFunction().imp('tokenize') # Fails! Turns out the use of __import__ works while the importlib version fails. Why does importlib … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Become a Python contributor at PyOhio
by Catherine Devlin June 15, 2010

June 15, 2010

So let's try this again: Become a Python contributor at PyOhio ===================================== Working in Python is awesome. Are you ready to work on Python? The quality of Python and the Standard Library depend on volunteers who fix bugs and make improvements to the codebase. If you're interested in joining these volunteers, good for you! Information on core development is right on Python's homepage. However, if you'd like an in-person boost to get you started, come to PyOhio this … [View More]

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Re: [Python-Dev] Become a Python contributor at PyOhio
by Catherine Devlin June 15, 2010

June 15, 2010

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Dan Buch <dbuch(a)ag.com> wrote: > Does this mean I should repurpose my talk slot, currently entitled > "Intro to Core Involvement"? :) > > Ach! I forgot! Hopefully that's the dumbest mistake I'll make in this year's PyOhio preparations. Fortunately the PyCon blog can be edited... wish emails could be. No, as I wrote to the talk committee, "There is some overlap between this talk and Dan Buch's submission, though his seems to have a … [View More]

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Become a Python contributor at PyOhio
by Catherine Devlin June 15, 2010

June 15, 2010

Thanks to David Murray, we're going ahead with plans to make a full-fledged introduction to core development at PyOhio. We've just started circulating this announcement to drum up interest, so if there are people or groups who you'd like to recruit to the effort, please forward it to them. By the way, I haven't made a peep on this list yet - or even read it - because I'm intentionally preserving my ignorance so that I can be the leader-learner for the Teach Me session. (It's the first time … [View More]

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Static linking with libpython.a
by F van der Meeren June 14, 2010

June 14, 2010

Hello, I am trying to figure out, what files to copy with my app so I am able to initialize the python runtime. Where can I find information about this? I am currently targeting Mac OS X 10.5 and above. Thank you, Filip

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Summary of Python tracker Issues
by Python tracker June 11, 2010

June 11, 2010

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-06-04 - 2010-06-11) 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. 2764 open (+54) / 18028 closed (+23) / 20792 total (+77) Open issues with patches: 1115 Average duration of open issues: 714 days. Median duration of open issues: 502 days. Open Issues Breakdown open 2737 (+54) languishing 12 ( +0) pending 14 ( +0) Issues Created Or … [View More]

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Reintroduce or drop completly hex, bz2, rot13, ... codecs
by Victor Stinner June 11, 2010

June 11, 2010

There are two opposite issues in the bug tracker: #7475: codecs missing: base64 bz2 hex zlib ... -> reintroduce the codecs removed from Python3 #8838: Remove codecs.readbuffer_encode() -> remove the last part of the removed codecs If I understood correctly, the question is: should codecs module only contain encoding codecs, or contain also other kind of codecs. Encoding codec API is now strict (encode: str->bytes, decode: bytes->str), it's not possible to reuse str.… [View More]

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Future of 2.x.
by Alexandre Vassalotti June 10, 2010

June 10, 2010

Is there is any plan for a 2.8 release? If not, I will go through the tracker and close outstanding backport requests of 3.x features to 2.x. -- Alexandre

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issue 8832: Add a context manager to dom.minidom
by Kristján Valur Jónsson June 8, 2010

June 8, 2010

I haven't had any comment on this patch, are there any objections? http://bugs.python.org/issue8832 K

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ssl
by Kristján Valur Jónsson June 7, 2010

June 7, 2010

Hello there. I wanted to do some work on the ssl module, but I was a bit daunted at the prerequisites. Is there anywhere that I can get at precompiled libs for the openssl that we use? In general, gettin all those "external" projects seem to be complex to build. Is there a fast way? What I want to do, is to implement a separate BIO for OpenSSL, one that calls back into python for writes and reads. This is so that I can use my own sockets implementation for the actual IO, in particular, I … [View More]

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