Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-21 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Looks like some good new stuff coming along. Does anyone know what's >>happened to the path PEP (http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0355/) - I >>thought I'd seen somewhere that that was originally planned

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
"Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Looks like some good new stuff coming along. Does anyone know what's > happened to the path PEP (http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0355/) - I > thought I'd seen somewhere that that was originally planned for 2.5... It is still

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-21 Thread Ant
Looks like some good new stuff coming along. Does anyone know what's happened to the path PEP (http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0355/) - I thought I'd seen somewhere that that was originally planned for 2.5... -- Ant... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: >> >> http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ > > Looks like links to PEPs are completely hosed at the moment. For > example, the link above displays an empty dir

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Tim Peters
> For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: > > http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ Looks like links to PEPs are completely hosed at the moment. For example, the link above displays an empty directory, and http://www.python.org/doc/peps displays a directory full of empty

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Ravi Teja
Only MS can answer those questions. Even though, Python on Windows is compiled with VC++, you can still use Mingw32 to compile extensions. There are some articles floating around on how to do this and I did try it successfully in the past. Please note that I am not advocating either compiler. Just

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Don Taylor
Ravi Teja wrote: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ > Free. > True, but 'The Microsoft Toolkit Compiler doesn't come out-of-the-box with everything you need to compile extensions.' see: http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ If you are going ahead with the VC 7.1 Toolk

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Ben Finney wrote: >> - ASCII is the default coding > > Er? How did this happen? > > To be specific, what about all the movement toward UTF-8? See PEP 263. ASCII is the default encoding for source code; if you want to use UTF-8 in source code, either put # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- into the fil

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: > http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ Thanks for bringing attention to this. > - ASCII is the default coding Er? How did this happen? To be specific, what about all the movement

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Ravi Teja
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ Free. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Don Taylor
Scott David Daniels wrote: > I think there will be no compiler switching for a while. The previous > switch from VC 6 was in part because there was no longer any legal way > to get a VC 6.0 compiler. This round at least is sticking with the same > compiler as Python 2.4 (VC 7.0). > Scott: Adm

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Pekka Niiranen wrote: > what I would like to see in (www.python.org) is > Windows installation package (*.msi) > compiled with option "--enable-unicode=ucs4". > See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/15/py-xml.html Just enabling that option is not enough: the resulting binary likely crashes. In addi

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Scott David Daniels
Gregory Petrosyan wrote: > P.P.S. are there any experiments with compiling CPython with Intel's > compiler? Yup, the (older) Intel compiler was quite effective for 2,2 and 2.3 (at least), and I think at least one distro was built with it. -- -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Pekka Niiranen
Hi, what I would like to see in (www.python.org) is Windows installation package (*.msi) compiled with option "--enable-unicode=ucs4". See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/15/py-xml.html -pekka- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-19 Thread Gregory Petrosyan
Yes, it's very annoying to see VC8 warnings on perfectly legal C constructs (AFAIK even sprinf is now considered "unsafe", MS wants everybody to use sprintf_s). But the optimisation capacities of VC8 are really great. Maybe someone can measure the speedup? P.S. there's an "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-18 Thread Scott David Daniels
Don Taylor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: >> http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ > I hope that this is not considered too off topic, but what compiler is > going to be used for the MSW version of 2.5? > > If it is going to the MS

Re: Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-18 Thread Don Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: > > http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ > I hope that this is not considered too off topic, but what compiler is going to be used for the MSW version of 2.5? If it is going to the MS Visual Studio 2005 com

Python 2.5 Schedule

2006-03-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more details about the plan for Python 2.5, see: http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-0356/ The highlights are that we are hoping to put out the first alpha Real Soon Now, hopefully in a week or two. If there's something you really think just must be in 2.5 and can't wait until 2.6, now is