[sage-support] Re: circular link problem

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, Kate Minola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The circular link of python and python2.5 in local/lib/python2.5 > makes it difficult to change ownership when installing the binary. > > % pwd > /home/kate/temp/sage-2.8.4.1-debian64-x86_64-x86_64-Linux/local/lib/python2.5 > % ls -al python p

[sage-support] circular link problem

2007-09-11 Thread Kate Minola
The circular link of python and python2.5 in local/lib/python2.5 makes it difficult to change ownership when installing the binary. % pwd /home/kate/temp/sage-2.8.4.1-debian64-x86_64-x86_64-Linux/local/lib/python2.5 % ls -al python python2.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kate magma 6 Sep 11 15:46 python -> python

[sage-support] Re: Confusing behavior of the "for" loop

2007-09-11 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > On 9/11/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I did not find this here: >> http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html >> >> The 'old' behaviour seems to be continued: > > Specifically what he said in his talk would change is the following: > > fake-python3000>

[sage-support] Re: Confusing behavior of the "for" loop

2007-09-11 Thread William Stein
On 9/11/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not find this here: > http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html > > The 'old' behaviour seems to be continued: Specifically what he said in his talk would change is the following: fake-python3000> n = 5 fake-python3000> v = [n*n fo

[sage-support] Re: Confusing behavior of the "for" loop

2007-09-11 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > > That said, I vaguely recall Guido van Rosum saying that he was > seriously considering changing this behavior in "Python 3000", > i.e., the version of Python that will seriously break backwards > compatibility. I have no idea what will really happen. > I did not fi