[Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Jesús Cea
Python insider blog was a great idea, trying to open and expose python-dev to 
the world. A great and necessary idea.

But the last post was in August.

I wonder if the project is dead... Would be sad :-(

http://blog.python.org/

Enviado desde mi iPhone
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Re: [Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Senthil Kumaran
No. I think, you are welcome to write something about the recent
changes you made to Python.

-- 
Senthil

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:40:06PM +0100, Jesús Cea wrote:
> Python insider blog was a great idea, trying to open and expose python-dev to 
> the world. A great and necessary idea.
> 
> But the last post was in August.
> 
> I wonder if the project is dead... Would be sad :-(
> 
> http://blog.python.org/
> 
> Enviado desde mi iPhone
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Re: [Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:40, Jesús Cea  wrote:

> Python insider blog was a great idea, trying to open and expose python-dev
> to the world. A great and necessary idea.
>
> But the last post was in August.
>
> I wonder if the project is dead... Would be sad :-(
>
> http://blog.python.org/


Not dead, there was just a period where I got a little too busy with real
life, plus development seemed to slow down for a while. I have a few drafts
working (like a post on all of the recent PEP activity) and a few more in
my head, but I'd like for it to not be a one-man show :)

I've been planning to do another push to get people from around here to
write about their big commits, what's going on in the areas of code they
work on, interesting bugs they've fixed, etc. Now that you mentioned this,
I'll get going quicker and send out details in the next day or so.
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Re: [Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2011 07:23:03 Brian Curtin a écrit :
> Not dead, there was just a period where I got a little too busy with real
> life, plus development seemed to slow down for a while. I have a few drafts
> working (like a post on all of the recent PEP activity) and a few more in
> my head, but I'd like for it to not be a one-man show :)

Some interesting topics for this blog:

 - recent implemented PEP: 393 (Unicode) and 3151 (exceptions)
 - sys.platform and Linux 3
 - deprecation of bytes filename on Windows

For PEP 393, I still have a question: does old module benefit of the memory 
reduction or not? If a string is created using the old API, it only uses a 
wchar_t* buffer. When the string is read using the new API, it is converted to 
use the best storage (UCS 1/2/4) and the wchar_t* buffer is freed, so the 
memory consumption is reduced. The problem is maybe if you access the string 
again using the old API: Python recreates the wchar_t* buffer and so the string 
has two storages (double memory usage which is worse than Python 3.2). But I 
don't understand if this case can happen or not.

FYI I added a "Deprecated" section to the What's New in Python 3.3 document:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#deprecated-modules-functions-and-
methods.

Victor
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Re: [Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Christian Heimes
Am 16.11.2011 14:41, schrieb Victor Stinner:
> Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2011 07:23:03 Brian Curtin a écrit :
>> Not dead, there was just a period where I got a little too busy with real
>> life, plus development seemed to slow down for a while. I have a few drafts
>> working (like a post on all of the recent PEP activity) and a few more in
>> my head, but I'd like for it to not be a one-man show :)
> 
> Some interesting topics for this blog:
> 
>  - recent implemented PEP: 393 (Unicode) and 3151 (exceptions)
>  - sys.platform and Linux 3

I've already blogged about the Linux 3 topic two months ago. You are
welcome to use my posting as a reference.

http://lipyrary.blogspot.com/2011/09/python-and-linux-kernel-30-sysplatform.html

Christian

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Re: [Python-Dev] Is Python insider blog dead?

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Moore
On 16 November 2011 13:23, Brian Curtin  wrote:
> Not dead, there was just a period where I got a little too busy with real
> life, plus development seemed to slow down for a while. I have a few drafts
> working (like a post on all of the recent PEP activity) and a few more in my
> head, but I'd like for it to not be a one-man show :)
> I've been planning to do another push to get people from around here to
> write about their big commits, what's going on in the areas of code they
> work on, interesting bugs they've fixed, etc. Now that you mentioned this,
> I'll get going quicker and send out details in the next day or so.

I had planned to do an article on the new packaging features, but the
discussion hasn't really come to any conclusions yet, and to be honest
I don't think that everything has settled enough yet (particularly on
binary installers)[1]. Maybe I could do a short post saying something
along the lines of "packaging is coming in 3.3, it's available now in
the form of distutils2, please try it out, work out what you like and
what you have problems with, and come and contribute on
python-dev"...?

Paul.

[1] Also real life has left me with little or no spare time once more :-)
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[Python-Dev] blog.python.org - help wanted - topics, authors, etc.

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Curtin
As Jesus mentioned earlier today, it has been a while since
http://blog.python.org/ was been updated, and even before that it
wasn't updated all that often. I'd like to try and get others involved
so we can get a more steady flow going and highlight more of the work
everyone is doing.

The blog aims to keep people up-to-date on what's going on in the
development of Python without having to follow every word of this
mailing list, the bug tracker, IRC, etc. There are a number of topics
that I think would be great for the blog, including but not limited
to:

* Surveys - Raymond likes to poll people on twitter and has done a
bunch of surveys over IRC, usually relating to ideas on APIs. I'd love
to put some of these up on the blog and cast a wider net.
* New features - Introducing a new module, such as Victor's
faulthandler, makes for a great post. As we get closer to 3.3,
everyone will be stuffing the commit stream with new features and
introducing interesting ones on here would be great.
* PEPs - As we all know, PEP discussions can sometimes result in weeks
long debates with hundreds of 500 word responses. Summarizing a
discussion down to a blog post would probably be helpful for a lot of
people. I know I can't follow all of these PEPs all the time, but I'd
like to know what's going on.
* Problems you're solving - Antoine did a nice post about his changes
to remove polling from a number of areas in the code and why he did
them. More explanations like this would be great.

We run the blog out of a Mercurial repository on BitBucket and do the
writing in reStructuredText, then publish via Blogger. There's also a
great team of volunteer translators that can get your post out there
in 10 languages (see the blog sidebar for the full list). We can also
accept guest posts with zero process: you just write and we'll handle
the back-end stuff and get your work published. I don't want to make
people go through all kinds of hoops if they just want to make a
one-time post about something they want to share.

If you have any topics - specific or general -  that you'd like to see
covered, respond here and we'll add them on the tracker.
If you're interested in writing, contact me and I'll get you up and running.
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