Re: starting to dive into python package bugs

2013-07-03 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 3 July 2013 19:36, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The reason is that if some code is trying to: > > except 'error message' > > this will fail if the raise site is changed. > In fact it will already fail - recent Python 2 versions throw a TypeError if you attempt to raise a bare string (from at lea

Re: python3.3 status

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 03, 2013 06:15:11 PM PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > >Looking at where we are now, the open issues are down to #711761 and > >#711761. > To my opinion, (I am the maintainer of pytango) this is not a problem if > pytango is not available on s390. I forwarded the bug to the upstre

Re: starting to dive into python package bugs

2013-07-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 02, 2013, at 09:42 PM, Stéphane Blondon wrote: >I found in 'http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/python_bugs.cgi' that the >'Python string exceptions' are listed several times and I think the >base to fix it is easy: >replacing "raise 'error message' " by "raise Exception('error >message')" should

RE : python3.3 status

2013-07-03 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
>Looking at where we are now, the open issues are down to #711761 and #711761. To my opinion, (I am the maintainer of pytango) this is not a problem if pytango is not available on s390. I forwarded the bug to the upstream with a patch, I am waiting for the approval of the upstream. Nevertheless

Re: python3.3 status

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 03, 2013 02:04:08 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jul 03, 2013, at 01:55 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >Looking at where we are now, the open issues are down to #711761 and > >#711761. > Don't forget #711761 and #711761. > > :) Meh. #710545. Scott K > >I don't think they are enou

Re: python3.3 status

2013-07-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 03, 2013, at 01:55 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >Looking at where we are now, the open issues are down to #711761 and #711761. Don't forget #711761 and #711761. :) >I don't think they are enough of a reason to hold back switching to python3.3 >as default. > >My proposal is that once scipy

Re: python3.3 status

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, June 21, 2013 01:30:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:53:40 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Here's a further update on packages pertaining to the 3.3 transition: > > > libguestfs - No longer FTBFS on amd64, but does on i386, #710545, now > builds for all pytho