Quoting glyph@divmod.com:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:45:48 +0100, Thomas HERVE <therve@free.fr> wrote:
Quoting Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@divmod.com>:
Patches that remove usage of the string module will surely be accepted. :)
It would be good : I count 94 occurences of string import in the trunk. I'll open a topic.
This is a worthwhile goal since we made the decision to stop importing the string module several years ago, however:
[Issue created here : http://twistedmatrix.com/bugs/issue1381].
Just because Python2.2 support has been dropped does not mean that we should waste time crawling all over the codebase to update "old" code to the new standard.
Ok I understand that. Hopefully it doesn't apply to the string module :).
2) If you're that enthused to do work on Twisted, there are lots of other, more worthwhile projects you could be engaging in. I'm tempted to write a list, but you know where the bugtracker is. Let's not make any unnecessary work. If you're interested in stylistic improvements, one thing you might want to look at is removing uses of deprecated trial APIs such as wait() from the unit tests.
Great. I'm willing to work on Twisted, and I have time for that. I work full-time on Twisted-based applications, and my employer is well-disposed to give a bit of this time to Twisted itself. Indeed taking tasks in the bts is a good way to help Twisted.
Ok, thanks for your answer. I miss new-style class for mainly one thing : the automatic __init__, great for subclasses.
How is __init__ more automatic in new-style classes? Do you mean super()?
Well I mean like that: class MyClass(TwistedClass): def __init__(self, myargs): super(TwistedClass, self).__init__() # doesn't work TwistedClass.__init__(self) # doesn't work either
At any rate, when we do start a new-style push, we should probably have a 'from twisted import __metaclass__' at the top of each file, to make updating the codebase to incorporate object-model and/or debugging enhancements easier.
I remember seeing this in Nevow, without understanding it at first. It seeems to solve the super problem, but looks a bit like black magic :). Thanks a lot for your patience, I'll try to bit less noisy and more useful. -- Thomas