Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/07/2010 16:07, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: In article<1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, imageguy wrote: Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? A windows "Shortcut" ? Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS func

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 7/8/10 8:07 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: >> In article >> <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> imageguy wrote: >>> >>> Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >>> A windows "Shortcut" ? >> >> Just to be clear,

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-08, Aahz wrote: > In article > <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, > imageguy wrote: >> >>Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >>A windows "Shortcut" ? > > Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Aahz
In article <1450078b-d5ee-437f-bd8b-8da26900f...@x27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, imageguy wrote: > >Sorry to be daft here, but what do you mean by a "hardlink" ? >A windows "Shortcut" ? Just to be clear, a hardlink on NTFS functions almost exactly the same as a hardlink on a Unix filesystem -- it

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-08 Thread Tim Golden
On 08/07/2010 03:17, imageguy wrote: I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like the idea of a common root) and I put NTFS ha

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-07 Thread Martin v. Loewis
Am 08.07.2010 04:17, schrieb imageguy: > >> I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code >> I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. >> I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like >> the idea of a common root) and

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-07 Thread imageguy
> I, too, have multiple versions installed -- newer ones for running code > I haven't upgraded; older ones for compatibility testing where needed. > I just install to the default c:\pythonxy directories (although I like > the idea of a common root) and I put NTFS hardlinks into my general > c:\too

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-06 Thread Tim Golden
On 06/07/2010 07:06, David Bolen wrote: I tend to need multiple versions around when developing, so I keep a bunch of versions all installed in separate directories as \Python\x.y (so I only have a single root directory). With 2.7, my current box has 6 Python interpreters (2.4-3.1) installed at

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread David Bolen
Martineau writes: > Some clarification. I meant installed 2.7 on top of 2.6.x. Doing so > would have interfered with the currently installed version because I > always install Python in the same directory, one named just "Python", > to minimize the number of changes I have to make to to other par

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> Benjamin (or anyone else), do you know where I can get the Compiled > Windows Help file -- python27.chm -- for this release? I have now put that file separately on the release page. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 5:53 pm, David Robinow wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steven > D'Aprano wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > > >> I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually > >> installing the release which would wipe out any currently install

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 1:31 pm, Alexander Kapps wrote: > Martineau wrote: > > Perhaps it's hidden somewhere, but I couldn't find the .chm help file > > in the python-2.7.msi file using 7-zip, nor saw anything that looked > > like a Doc folder embedded within it -- so I doubt installing it on a > > Windows mach

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > >> I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually >> installing the release which would wipe out any currently installed >> version (I'm one of those rare people who act

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:00 -0700, Martineau wrote: > I'd like to view the contents of the help file without actually > installing the release which would wipe out any currently installed > version (I'm one of those rare people who actually reads manuals > *before* using or installing most things

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Alexander Kapps
Martineau wrote: Perhaps it's hidden somewhere, but I couldn't find the .chm help file in the python-2.7.msi file using 7-zip, nor saw anything that looked like a Doc folder embedded within it -- so I doubt installing it on a Windows machine would work any better. I don't know much about the .

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Martineau
On Jul 5, 1:12 am, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin wrote: > > On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: > >> On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > >> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the > >> > second > >> > release ca

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin wrote: > On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: >> On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >> >> >> > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second >> > release candidate of Python 2.7. >> >> > Python 2.7 will be the

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread John Machin
On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau wrote: > On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > > > > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > > release candidate of Python 2.7. > > > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it > > will >

Re: Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Martineau
On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > release candidate of Python 2.7. > > Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will > also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. > > 2

Re: [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/7/4 Benjamin Peterson : > On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second > release candidate of Python 2.7. Arg!!! This should, of course, be "final release". -- Regards, Benjamin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

2010-07-04 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second release candidate of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance. 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Pyt