Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread William McBrine
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:16:47 -0800, Fernando H. Sanches wrote: > I agree that the tab/space thing should be changed. Would it be too hard > to make the parser see if the indentation is consistent in the whole > file? *Something* has changed. I had a piece of code where, without realizing it, I h

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread MRAB
Mensanator wrote: On Dec 5, 12:29 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective that has become regrettably common

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Mensanator
On Dec 5, 12:29 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to > >counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective > >that has become regrettably common here in re

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/5 Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I second the motion to use pish and tosh for a first level of disagreement. > > I recommend the rather archaic "Balderdash" as the next step in the > escalation of disagreement... > http://bash.org/?23396 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-06 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to >counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective >that has become regrettably common here in recent months. I second the motion to use pish and tosh for a first level o

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Steven D'Aprano: >I think you're talking about mixed spaces/tabs in the one module.< Right. >My gut feeling is that you have to have a fairly unusual set of circumstances >before it causes actual bugs.< I don't mix tab and spaces in my code, and my editor is able to convert them, so after the

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> comp.lang.python3k ? > > > >The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the > >community need not do the same. > > Pis

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> comp.lang.python3k ? > >The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the >community need not do the same. Pish and tosh. James was clearly making a funny; there's

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:01:55 +, je.s.te.r wrote: > Fernando H. Sanches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And I personally disliked most of the changes (specially the ones on >> map and reduce). I hope functional programming doesn't get even more >> hindered in future releases, because I believe th

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:09:27 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger: >> Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? You get >> warnings. Everything else is up to you. > > It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped > to see removed from Py

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:16:47 -0800 (PST) "Fernando H. Sanches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 5:45 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? Yo

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Fernando H. Sanches
On Dec 4, 5:45 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >     >>> As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. > >     >>> Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ > > >     >> What? Do you mean it's pos

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Terry Reedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Waldenburger: Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped to see removed from Python3 (my first request of this was years ag

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:49:46 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's more than warnings. With properly crafted > combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code which > looks like it has a certain indentation to the human > observer but which looks like it has different indent

Whitespace in Python (3) [was: RELEASED Python 3.0 final]

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:46:02 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger: > > My point is: If you mix tabs and spaces in a way that breaks code, > > you'll find out pretty easily, because your program will not work. > > - Most newbies don't know that. > - Sometimes it may produce w

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Andreas Waldenburger: > My point is: If you mix tabs and spaces in a way that breaks code, > you'll find out pretty easily, because your program will not work. - Most newbies don't know that. - Sometimes it may produce wrong results. - And even if you are an expert when you go changing a little a

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:49:46 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Andreas> Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" > Andreas> stuff? You get warnings. Everything else is up to you. > > It's more than warnings. With properly crafted combinations of > spaces and tabs you can get

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-05 Thread bearophileHUGS
Andreas Waldenburger: > Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? You get > warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's a strong source for bugs, especially for newbies, that I have hoped to see removed from Python3 (my first request of this was years ago). I was nearly sure to

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ben Finney
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > comp.lang.python3k ? The language has undergone an incompatible divide. Hopefully the community need not do the same. -- \ “People come up to me and say, ‘Emo, do people really come up | `\to you?’”

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread James Stroud
Barry Warsaw wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. comp.lang.python3k ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Roger Vossler
Hi, Congratulations to the Python 3.0 team!! Great! I was able to download the Python 3.0 documentation. Looks good. Any hints when the Mac OSX version of Python 3.0 will be available? Cheers, Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I would like to ask, how long will Python 2 be developed? Just for curiosity. > There won't be a 2.10 release of Python. Whether that means that 2.9 will be the last one, or whether development stops earlier, remains to be seen. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread George Sakkis
On Dec 4, 4:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     Andreas> Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? You >     Andreas> get warnings. Everything else is up to you. > > It's more than warnings.  With properly crafted combinations of spaces and > tabs you can get code which looks l

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread skip
Andreas> Whenever has it been a pythonic ideal to "not allow" stuff? You Andreas> get warnings. Everything else is up to you. It's more than warnings. With properly crafted combinations of spaces and tabs you can get code which looks like it has a certain indentation to the human observe

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:52:38 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. > >>> Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ > >> > >> What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? > >> Why? > > Daniel> Wh

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:30:52 -0800 "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. > >> Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ > > > > What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? > > Why not? > +1 -- My r

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread skip
>>> As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. >>> Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ >> >> What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Daniel> Why not? Because it has historically been a source of errors in a mixed development

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. >> Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ > > What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Why not? Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread bearophileHUGS
Gerhard Häring: > As you have probably guessed: nothing changed here. > Also see:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0666/ What? Do you mean it's possible to mix tabs and spaces still? Why? Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread J Kenneth King
Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Yay! Thanks for all the great work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread greg
On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I   > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Way to go and congratulations! --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Roy H. Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is great, however, the link to the What's New page appears to be > broken. > http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.1.html replace 3.1 with 3.0 :), so it has to be: http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Roy H. Han
Hi, This is great, however, the link to the What's New page appears to be broken. http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.1.html RHH On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Congratulations on a fantastic work! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Istvan Albert
Congratulations on a fantastic work! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hello, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > We will continue to > support and develop both Python 3 and Python 2 for the foreseeable future, > and you can safely choose either version (or both) to use in your projects. > W

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Gerhard Häring
Iain King wrote: > [...] Props. I just looked through the What's New and the change log, but I > couldn't find the answer to something: has any change been made to > how tabs and spaces are used as indentation? Can they still be > (inadvisably) mixed in one file? Or, more extremely, has one or

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-04 Thread Iain King
On Dec 4, 1:51 am, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. > > Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Ben Finney
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, > > I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. > > Congratulations! This is a great day for the Python community

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
thankers.append(self) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Carl Banks
On Dec 3, 7:51 pm, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Congratulations! This is a great day for the Python community. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>>> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I >>> am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. >>> >>> Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major >>> milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the >>> making. This is a new v

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I >> am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. >> >> Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major >> milestone in Python's

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. > > Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major > milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years in the > making. This is a new version of th

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Dec 3, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Props to all the folks whose hard work made this possible! You guys rock! -- Ed Leafe -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 11:51 am, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I >> am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. > > Thanks to you and everyone involved f

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ The text "This is a proeuction release" should probably read "This is a production release". It would give a better first impression :) Fixe

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ The text "This is a proeuction release" should probably read "This is a production release". It would give a better first impression :) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/4 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am > happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. > Congratulations! I have been learning Python 2.x while paying strict attention to the 3.x [in]compatibility issue. So, I hav

Re: RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread alex23
On Dec 4, 11:51 am, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I   > am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Thanks to you and everyone involved for your efforts! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RELEASED Python 3.0 final

2008-12-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the release of Python 3.0 final. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") represents a major milestone in Python's history, and was nearly three years i