Re: [BangPypers] Python switches to Mercurial

2009-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
There was a long discussion about this on python-dev where two links were posted pointing to mails on the bzr list. They summarise? the reasons why the community didn't chose bzr https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q1/055850.html and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q1/055872.h

Re: [BangPypers] Python switches to Mercurial

2009-04-01 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
On 31/03/09 12:18 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: I wonder if there were some real reasons for choosing hg over git, except perhaps to be different from the kernel folks ? reasons for the move to hg (instead of git or bzr) - http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-python-is-switching-to

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > Monty python reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4 > > Plus the 'unladen' meaning lightweight or some such. > In an early Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Geordi is looking for someone in a bar. He is told to talk to a

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Think this panel was the only thing on the core ; or were there any other > talks (i did not see any in the roster)? > Do you have any notes from this panel? Nope, there were other talks on the core too. Like writing the Python C Extensions (

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > Collin Winters was explaining at VM Panel at PyCon that their work is > coming from customer requirements internally at Google and they wanted > a faster a Python. > Think this panel was the only thing on the core ; or were there any oth

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > So "Unladen Swallow" -> A lightweight Python. > > Quite cryptic I say... they could have opted for something more > straightforward perhaps... Their idea is to backport the changes to CPython. So, there is nothing in naming conve

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai >> wrote: >>> 2009/4/1 Venkatraman S : > Linus played a similar joke 7 years back on lkml, which was even more believab

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: >> Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. >> >> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 >> >> By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidental

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Swallow - I don't think this means the bird Swallow, but the > act of swallowing, which is what a Python does - I think this is > a reference to Python itself. > > prompted by Linda :) ('DeepThroat') ?? -V

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 > > By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally.  What's with > that name, btw?  Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, s

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: >> 2009/4/1 Venkatraman S : >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Indrajith K wrote: >> Come on, the name of the PEP itself should tell you that... >> PEP 04-01 i.e

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
2009/4/1 Venkatraman S : > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Indrajith K wrote: >> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/ >> >> Not sure, if this is a April fool joke! Come on, the name of the PEP itself should tell you that... PEP 04-01 i.e April 01. > > ...check out the last few lines.

[BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally. What's with that name, btw? Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, so to speak. Regards, Roshan Mathews _

Re: [BangPypers] Guido steps down

2009-04-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > 2009/4/1 Venkatraman S : >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Indrajith K wrote: >>> >>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/ >>> >>> Not sure, if this is a April fool joke! > > Come on, the name of the PEP itself should

Re: [BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

2009-04-01 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 > > By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally.  What's with > that name, btw?  Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, s