Re: python 2.5 (beta 1) packages for rawhide

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On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:12:42AM -0400, ? Michael Weiner wrote:
> On 6/23/06 9:40 AM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've put together some python 2.5 (beta 1) packages. You can grab them from:
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/misa/rpms/python-2.5-rawhide/
> > 
> > (yum repos).
> > 
> > 
> > The packages should install cleanly side by side with the standard python
> > 2.4.3 packages. Applications will continue to use 2.4 unless you explicitly
> > invoke python25 or python2.5 (or your #! line says python2.5).
> > 
> > If you want to see a glimpse of what is coming up in the python world, go
> > ahead and check the packages out.
> > 
> > If there is interest, I can produce packages for FC5 too.
> 
> Thank you Misa, the source RPM builds fine for fc5, just a question for you
> though out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the japanese site-package?

Here's the module's descrption:

DESCRIPTION = """\
This package provides Unicode codecs that make Python aware
of Japanese character encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and
ISO-2022-JP.  By using this package, Japanese characters can be
treated as a character string instead of a byte sequence."""

I haven't had much experience with it myself, it's been in the python package
before I took over. Here's when and why they got in:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66352

> And is there any doc/pydoc on the smtpd thats built as well?

This works for me:

pydoc25 smtpd

Cheers,
Misa

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