On 6/23/06 12:14 PM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Misa - For some reason, even logged in, I am getting an access denied to that bz ticket - can you think of any reason why?? Thanks in advance Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
