Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r87980 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib/importlib: _bootstrap.py abc.py

2011-01-13 Thread Jim Jewett
Why? Are annotations being deprecated in general? Or are these particular annotations no longer accurate? -jJ On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM, raymond.hettinger wrote: > Author: raymond.hettinger > Date: Thu Jan 13 03:31:25 2011 > New Revision: 87980 > > Log: > Issue 10899: Remove function typ

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r87980 - in python/branches/py3k/Lib/importlib: _bootstrap.py abc.py

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Foord
On 13/01/2011 13:21, Jim Jewett wrote: Why? Are annotations being deprecated in general? Or are these particular annotations no longer accurate? See issue 10899. http://bugs.python.org/issue10899 Annotations are not deprecated but there is no accepted convention on their use (plus third pa

[Python-Dev] Get current UTC offset in crossplatform way

2011-01-13 Thread anatoly techtonik
Hello, It is already 2011. I didn't monitor the issue closely, but judging by the face that http://bugs.python.org/issue9527 is still open, Python still doesn't have a method to extract current timezone information from system. Can anybody recap what are we going to do with that in Python 3? Prob

Re: [Python-Dev] Approach for constructing Global Variables for Python

2011-01-13 Thread Ben Finney
ali musa writes: > [a large non-text document] Please don't paste documents here. If you want to share some information with us, please post a plain text message. -- \ “Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least | `\ studied.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The Age o

Re: [Python-Dev] Get current UTC offset in crossplatform way

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 14 janvier 2011 à 02:32 +0200, anatoly techtonik a écrit : > It is already 2011. I didn't monitor the issue closely, but judging by > the face that http://bugs.python.org/issue9527 is still open, Python > still doesn't have a method to extract current timezone information > from system.

Re: [Python-Dev] Approach for constructing Global Variables for Python

2011-01-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
a) This is somewhat off-topic for this list (it is more suitable to python-ideas, at best) b) Defining process global singletons and other heap data structures in C and C++ programs is hardly a new idea c) Defining head data structures isn't the hard part, the hard part is accessing them in a reaso

Re: [Python-Dev] Approach for constructing Global Variables for Python

2011-01-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > c) Defining head data structures isn't the hard part, the hard part is > accessing them in a reasonably efficient thread-safe manner. s/head/heap/ Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia __