Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Patrick Wallinger
Oleg, After installing a fresh zlib package from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/zlib1g I was able to build and install Python-3.6.0 seems to me if the zlib module sent out with the 3.6.0 release package doesn't build (which it doesn't) then that's a bug. thanks for your time, Patrick On

Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hello. We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); if you're having problems learning, understanding or using Python, please find another forum. Probably python-list/comp.lang.python mailing list/

Re: [Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Patrick Wallinger wrote: > zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available > There may very well be a bug here of the form of "zlib dependency is considered soft, but then something else breaks". However, in your current situation, my recommend

[Python-Dev] Is this a bug or a feature?

2017-02-16 Thread Patrick Wallinger
I'm brand new to python and was trying to install the newest version (3.6.0) on my ubuntu 16.04.1 but couldn't get it to build error free. I tried searching the bugs but didn't see a match for what I am seeing. Thanks for any help, Patrick Here is the report: patrick@ubuntu-MacBook:~/Programs/Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Deterministic builds of the interpreter

2017-02-16 Thread Freddy Rietdijk
Hi, Are there anymore suggestions how to improve the determinism of the Python 3 interpreter? As I mentioned, it seems only sets cause unreproducible bytecode. Sets have no order. But when generating the bytecode, I would expect there would still be an order since the code isn't actually executed,