Re: Assertions that are always true

2012-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 28, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >It's a mistake to write > > assert(tilsit, 'Never at the end of the week, sir.') > >instead of > > assert tilsit, 'Never at the end of the week, sir.' > >The former assertion is always true, and thus no-op. Python >= 2.6 emits a >SyntaxWar

Re: Future of python2.6 in Debian

2012-05-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 05:28:08PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > You can make and then support a private repo with python2.6 based on the > last Debian release. yes, I can. :/ I actually did something like this to get 2.6 in Lenny. > If you expect official Debian support (including se

Re: Future of python2.6 in Debian

2012-05-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:21:37AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > >After switching python-defaults to python2.7, I'm not sure we discussed > > >whether to keep python2.6 for Wheezy or not. In theory, we should be able > > >to > > >get rid of python2.6 in time for the release (I'd likely be able t

Re: Future of python2.6 in Debian

2012-05-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:43:23PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 04, 2012, at 01:58 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote: > >After switching python-defaults to python2.7, I'm not sure we discussed > >whether to keep python2.6 for Wheezy or not. In theory, we should be able to > >get rid of python2