[Python-Dev] IBM P-690 server looking for a home

2010-08-20 Thread Randall Walls
Greetings,

The company I work for has an IBM P-690 server that is in the process of
being retired. It is still a viable server, and has seen almost 0 use (it
was our failover machine). Unfortunately for us, this machine has little to
no resale value, and will probably be junked. I'd rather it go to a good
home, and having taken advantage of the work of the python development
community for a number of years (we use python extensively in system admin
and database work), I saw this as an opportunity to give back a little.

So, If anyone is interested in this machine, please let me know. We are
looking at perhaps a November time frame for when it will be removed from
our remote site. The P690 is no small machine, it is the size of a full rack
and has 32 Power4 processors in it and takes (I believe) 2 or 3 phase 220
Volt power. It weighs nearly a ton. We are running AIX5.3 on it, but I
believe that the machine is capable of running a PowerPC flavor of Linux as
well. This would make a great test machine for python HPC modules or as a
community box where developers could test their code against a PowerPC
architecture. It has lots of life left and I'd rather see it put to use then
thrown away.

Thanks,

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Re: [Python-Dev] IBM P-690 server looking for a home

2010-08-20 Thread Trent Nelson

On 19-Aug-10 10:48 AM, Randall Walls wrote:

Greetings,

The company I work for has an IBM P-690 server that is in the process of
being retired. It is still a viable server, and has seen almost 0 use
(it was our failover machine). Unfortunately for us, this machine has
little to no resale value, and will probably be junked. I'd rather it go
to a good home, and having taken advantage of the work of the python
development community for a number of years (we use python extensively
in system admin and database work), I saw this as an opportunity to give
back a little.

So, If anyone is interested in this machine, please let me know. We are
looking at perhaps a November time frame for when it will be removed
from our remote site. The P690 is no small machine, it is the size of a
full rack and has 32 Power4 processors in it and takes (I believe) 2 or
3 phase 220 Volt power. It weighs nearly a ton. We are running AIX5.3 on
it, but I believe that the machine is capable of running a PowerPC
flavor of Linux as well. This would make a great test machine for python
HPC modules or as a community box where developers could test their code
against a PowerPC architecture. It has lots of life left and I'd rather
see it put to use then thrown away.


Snakebite[1]'s always got an eye out for free hardware, but dang, that's 
one chunky piece of kit.  I'll follow up in private.


(And yeah, I'm still working on Snakebite, for those that are 
interested.  Turns out hosting three racks of heavy-duty hardware in the 
corner room of a (graciously donated) science lab takes a bit longer 
than originally anticipated.  Who would have thought.)


Regards,

Trent "no-news-is-good-news" Nelson.

[1]: http://www.snakebite.org/
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[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-08-20 Thread Python tracker

ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-08-13 - 2010-08-20)
Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/

To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue.
Do NOT respond to this message.

Issues stats:
  open2624 (+44)
  closed 18808 (+80)
  total  21432 (+63)

Open issues with patches: 1110 


Issues opened (44)
==

#9189: Improve CFLAGS handling
http://bugs.python.org/issue9189  reopened by skrah

#9445: Fix undefined symbol errors on VS8.0 build
http://bugs.python.org/issue9445  reopened by amaury.forgeotdarc

#9591: kqueue not reporting EOF under certain circumstances
http://bugs.python.org/issue9591  opened by Volodymyr.Kostyrko

#9592: Limitations in objects returned by multiprocessing Pool
http://bugs.python.org/issue9592  opened by macfreek

#9594: typo on Mac/Makefile.in? s/pythonw/python/
http://bugs.python.org/issue9594  opened by srid

#9597: mac: Install 2to3 in /usr/local/bin
http://bugs.python.org/issue9597  opened by srid

#9598: untabify.py fails on files that contain non-ascii characters
http://bugs.python.org/issue9598  opened by belopolsky

#9601: ftplib should accept 250 on MKD
http://bugs.python.org/issue9601  opened by alphablue52

#9602: PyObject_AsCharBuffer() should only accept read-only objects
http://bugs.python.org/issue9602  opened by haypo

#9607: Test file 'test_keyword.py' submission for use with keyword.py
http://bugs.python.org/issue9607  opened by gregmalcolm

#9608: Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst
http://bugs.python.org/issue9608  opened by flub

#9609: make cProfile multi-stack aware
http://bugs.python.org/issue9609  opened by krisvale

#9610: buildbot: uncaptured python exception (smtpd), but no failure 
http://bugs.python.org/issue9610  opened by flox

#9611: FileIO not 64-bit safe under Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue9611  opened by pitrou

#9613: Python considers pid longs under 64-bit Windows
http://bugs.python.org/issue9613  opened by pitrou

#9614: _pickle is not entirely 64-bit safe
http://bugs.python.org/issue9614  opened by pitrou

#9617: Buffered IO shouldn't ignore incoming signals during a partial
http://bugs.python.org/issue9617  opened by pitrou

#9618: IDLE shell ignores all but first statement
http://bugs.python.org/issue9618  opened by cben

#9620: Python 2.7 IDLE fails on OS X 10.6
http://bugs.python.org/issue9620  opened by bpumali

#9621: Graphviz output for 2to3 fixer patterns
http://bugs.python.org/issue9621  opened by gmattbond

#9622: Allow to set profile/trace function globally
http://bugs.python.org/issue9622  opened by krisvale

#9624: 2755
http://bugs.python.org/issue9624  opened by Kartton

#9625: argparse: Problem with defaults for variable nargs
http://bugs.python.org/issue9625  opened by thesociable

#9628: runtests.sh -x doesn't work with more than two args (sed error
http://bugs.python.org/issue9628  opened by dmalcolm

#9630: Reencode filenames when setting the filesystem encoding
http://bugs.python.org/issue9630  opened by haypo

#9631: Python 2.7 installation issue for Linux gcc-4.1.0-3 (Fedora Co
http://bugs.python.org/issue9631  opened by spprakash

#9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding()
http://bugs.python.org/issue9632  opened by haypo

#9633: pdb go stack up/down
http://bugs.python.org/issue9633  opened by Markus.Pröller

#9634: Add timeout parameter to Queue.join()
http://bugs.python.org/issue9634  opened by kdlucas

#9635: Add Py_BREAKPOINT and sys.breakpoint hooks
http://bugs.python.org/issue9635  opened by dmalcolm

#9637: docs do not say that urllib uses HTTP_PROXY
http://bugs.python.org/issue9637  opened by kirikaza

#9640: Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_
http://bugs.python.org/issue9640  opened by labrat

#9642: #ifdef and mbcs: don't check for defined(HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T)
http://bugs.python.org/issue9642  opened by haypo

#9643: urllib2 - Basic,Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 4
http://bugs.python.org/issue9643  opened by orsenthil

#9644: PEP 383: os.statvfs() does not accept surrogateescape argument
http://bugs.python.org/issue9644  opened by baikie

#9645: PEP 383: os.pathconf() does not accept surrogateescape argumen
http://bugs.python.org/issue9645  opened by baikie

#9647: os.confstr() does not handle value changing length between cal
http://bugs.python.org/issue9647  opened by baikie

#9648: 2to3 doesn't convert "file" usage to an "open" equivalent
http://bugs.python.org/issue9648  opened by brian.curtin

#9649: wrong default for sort_keys in json module documentation
http://bugs.python.org/issue9649  opened by mdirolf

#9650: format codes in time.strptime docstrings
http://bugs.python.org/issue9650  opened by catherine

#706263: print raises exception when no console available
http://bugs.python.org/issue706263  reopened by amaury.forgeotdarc

#877121: configure detects incorrect compiler optimization
http://bugs.python.org/issue877121  reopened by r.david.murray

#749722: isinstance and weakref proxies.
http://

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-08-20 Thread Florent Xicluna
And Now For Something Completely Different...

  http://code.google.com/p/bbreport/wiki/PythonBuildbotReport

The buildbot failures and tracker issues are listed in 3 tables:

 - *New failures* : failures which are not associated with an issue in
the tracker

 - *Known issues* : failures which are (probably) linked with an existing issue
   (the association [failure] <--> [issue] is based on regexp rules)

 - *No recent failure* : these issues are no longer reported on recent
builds. Either the problem is fixed, or the failure is elusive.

The page is hosted on Google Code. Victor hosts a cron job which
recalculates and upload the JSON data.
Currently, the report is uploaded every hour.

Regards,

-- 
Florent Xicluna

2010/8/20 Python tracker
>
> ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2010-08-13 - 2010-08-20)
> Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/
>
> To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue.
> Do NOT respond to this message.
>
> Issues stats:
>  open    2624 (+44)
>  closed 18808 (+80)
>  total  21432 (+63)
>
> Open issues with patches: 1110
>
>
> Issues opened (44)
> ==
>
> #9189: Improve CFLAGS handling
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9189  reopened by skrah
>
> #9445: Fix undefined symbol errors on VS8.0 build
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9445  reopened by amaury.forgeotdarc
>
> #9591: kqueue not reporting EOF under certain circumstances
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9591  opened by Volodymyr.Kostyrko
>
> #9592: Limitations in objects returned by multiprocessing Pool
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9592  opened by macfreek
>
> #9594: typo on Mac/Makefile.in? s/pythonw/python/
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9594  opened by srid
>
> #9597: mac: Install 2to3 in /usr/local/bin
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9597  opened by srid
>
> #9598: untabify.py fails on files that contain non-ascii characters
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9598  opened by belopolsky
>
> #9601: ftplib should accept 250 on MKD
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9601  opened by alphablue52
>
> #9602: PyObject_AsCharBuffer() should only accept read-only objects
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9602  opened by haypo
>
> #9607: Test file 'test_keyword.py' submission for use with keyword.py
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9607  opened by gregmalcolm
>
> #9608: Re-phrase best way of using exceptions in doanddont.rst
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9608  opened by flub
>
> #9609: make cProfile multi-stack aware
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9609  opened by krisvale
>
> #9610: buildbot: uncaptured python exception (smtpd), but no failure
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9610  opened by flox
>
> #9611: FileIO not 64-bit safe under Windows
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9611  opened by pitrou
>
> #9613: Python considers pid longs under 64-bit Windows
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9613  opened by pitrou
>
> #9614: _pickle is not entirely 64-bit safe
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9614  opened by pitrou
>
> #9617: Buffered IO shouldn't ignore incoming signals during a partial
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9617  opened by pitrou
>
> #9618: IDLE shell ignores all but first statement
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9618  opened by cben
>
> #9620: Python 2.7 IDLE fails on OS X 10.6
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9620  opened by bpumali
>
> #9621: Graphviz output for 2to3 fixer patterns
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9621  opened by gmattbond
>
> #9622: Allow to set profile/trace function globally
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9622  opened by krisvale
>
> #9624: 2755
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9624  opened by Kartton
>
> #9625: argparse: Problem with defaults for variable nargs
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9625  opened by thesociable
>
> #9628: runtests.sh -x doesn't work with more than two args (sed error
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9628  opened by dmalcolm
>
> #9630: Reencode filenames when setting the filesystem encoding
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9630  opened by haypo
>
> #9631: Python 2.7 installation issue for Linux gcc-4.1.0-3 (Fedora Co
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9631  opened by spprakash
>
> #9632: Remove sys.setfilesystemencoding()
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9632  opened by haypo
>
> #9633: pdb go stack up/down
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9633  opened by Markus.Pröller
>
> #9634: Add timeout parameter to Queue.join()
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9634  opened by kdlucas
>
> #9635: Add Py_BREAKPOINT and sys.breakpoint hooks
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9635  opened by dmalcolm
>
> #9637: docs do not say that urllib uses HTTP_PROXY
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9637  opened by kirikaza
>
> #9640: Improved doctest REPORT_*DIFFs with ELLIPSIS and/or NORMALIZE_
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9640  opened by labrat
>
> #9642: #ifdef and mbcs: don't check for defined(HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T)
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9642  opened by haypo
>
> #9643: urllib2 - Basic,Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 4
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9643  opened by orsenthil
>
> #9644: PEP 383: os.statvfs() does not accept surrogateesca

Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2010-08-20 Thread Victor Stinner
Le vendredi 20 août 2010 19:49:10, vous avez écrit :
> And Now For Something Completely Different...
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/bbreport/wiki/PythonBuildbotReport

Thanks to Florent and Ezio for their great work on bbreport project!

>  - *New failures* : failures which are not associated with an issue in
> the tracker
> 
>  - *Known issues* : failures which are (probably) linked with an existing
> issue (the association [failure] <--> [issue] is based on regexp rules)

There is a configuration file, bbreport.conf, which uses some patterns to match 
an issue:

 - test name (regex)
 - message (regex)
 - builder (regex)

All fields are optional, but it's better to set at least one field :-)

Extract of the config:
---
8265: test_float::ARMv4 Debian (2.6|3.1)
8423: test_pep277::x86 Tiger (2.7|3.x)
8428: test_multiprocessing::(x86 FreeBSD 7.2 3.x|x86 Windows7 3.1|.* 2.7)
8429: test_subprocess:hung:
8431: :hung:(ARM|.* debian parallel)
---

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[Python-Dev] Request for commits and/or privileges

2010-08-20 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
Several issues that I'm involved with (listed below) are ready for
commit, as far as I can tell.  They have a patch, and either a core
developer has positively reviewed the patch or the patch is a
straightforward implementation of a core developer's suggested
approach.  They are all bug-fixes or optimizations.

May I have commit privileges so that I can commit these patches and
future patches in a similar state?  If the consensus is negative for
any reason, I completely respect that decision and will continue to
contribute patches just as I am now (but in that case, consider this
my humble request for someone to commit these changes :) ).  If
positive, I would start by committing just one (after writing an
appropriate NEWS entry) and soliciting feedback to make sure that I
had done it right.

http://bugs.python.org/issue8781 - 32-bit wchar_t doesn't need to be
unsigned to be usable
http://bugs.python.org/issue9214 - Most Set methods of KeysView and
ItemsView do not work right
http://bugs.python.org/issue8750 - Many of MutableSet's methods assume
that the other parameter is not self
http://bugs.python.org/issue5553 - Py_LOCAL_INLINE(type) doesn't
actually inline except using MSC
http://bugs.python.org/issue2521 - ABC caches should use weak refs
http://bugs.python.org/issue808164 - socket.close() doesn't play well
with __del__

Many more in the pipeline :-)

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Re: [Python-Dev] Request for commits and/or privileges

2010-08-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
+1

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Daniel Stutzbach
 wrote:
> Several issues that I'm involved with (listed below) are ready for
> commit, as far as I can tell.  They have a patch, and either a core
> developer has positively reviewed the patch or the patch is a
> straightforward implementation of a core developer's suggested
> approach.  They are all bug-fixes or optimizations.
>
> May I have commit privileges so that I can commit these patches and
> future patches in a similar state?  If the consensus is negative for
> any reason, I completely respect that decision and will continue to
> contribute patches just as I am now (but in that case, consider this
> my humble request for someone to commit these changes :) ).  If
> positive, I would start by committing just one (after writing an
> appropriate NEWS entry) and soliciting feedback to make sure that I
> had done it right.
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue8781 - 32-bit wchar_t doesn't need to be
> unsigned to be usable
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9214 - Most Set methods of KeysView and
> ItemsView do not work right
> http://bugs.python.org/issue8750 - Many of MutableSet's methods assume
> that the other parameter is not self
> http://bugs.python.org/issue5553 - Py_LOCAL_INLINE(type) doesn't
> actually inline except using MSC
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2521 - ABC caches should use weak refs
> http://bugs.python.org/issue808164 - socket.close() doesn't play well
> with __del__
>
> Many more in the pipeline :-)
>
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> President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC
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