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Mar 15 and Mar 28 (inclusive) 2001. It is intended to inform the
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PEP if you have an opinion.
This is the fourth summary written by Michael Hudson.
Summaries are archived at:
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/
Posting distribution (with apologies to mbm)
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Bug-fixing for 2.1 remained a priority for python-dev this fortnight
which saw the release of 2.1b2 last Friday.
Python 2.0.1
Aahz posted his first draft of PEP 6, outlining the process by which
maintenance releases of Python should be made.
http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0006.html
Moshe Zadka has volunteered to be the "Patch Czar" for Python 2.0.1.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013952.html
I'm sure we can all join in the thanks due to Moshe for taking up
this tedious but valuable job!
Simple Generator implementations
Neil Schemenauer posted links to a couple of "simple" implementations
of generators (a.k.a. resumable functions) that do not depend on the
stackless changes going in.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013648.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013666.html
These implementations have the advantage that they might be
applicable to Jython, something that sadly cannot be said of
stackless.
portable file-system stuff
The longest thread of the summary period started off with a request
for a portable way to find out free disk space:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013706.html
After a slightly acrimonious debate about the nature of Python
development, /F produced a patch that implements partial support for
os.statvfs on Windows:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=410547&group_id=5470&atid=305470
which can be used to extract such information.
A side-product of this discussion was the observation that although
Python has a module that does some file manipulation, shutil, it is
far from being as portable as it might be - in particular it fails
miserably on the Mac where it ignores resource forks. Greg Ward then
pointed out that he had to implement cross-platform file copying for
the distutils
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013962.html
so perhaps all that needs to be done is for this stuff to be moved
into the core. It seems very unlikely there will be much movement
here before 2.2.