[Raymond] > FYI, I have several non-major C components to go in but not in time for alpha > 1. > They include some minor fix-ups in the sets module, the str.partition > function, > add gc to itertools.tee, a couple of functions in binascii, add > itertools.izip_longest, Crutcher's patch to make exec take dictionary > arguments, > move the peepholer to just before the assembler, and implement Alex's iterator > copier for a number of iterables (xrange, repeat, count, reversed, list, > tuple, > deque, dict, and set). All of these have been previously discussed/approved > and > should go in to the second alpha. > > The only one that is borderline is Crutcher's patch. I will try to free up > some > time to get that into alpha 1. It touches critical parts of the interpreted > and > needs to be reviewed, tested, timed, and exercised thoroughly.
[Neal] > All those seem reasonable. Do the functions you mention address Josiah's > patch? I believe so. They are binascii.b2long() and binascii.long2b(). And, no, the name of the latter wasn't taken from a song ;-) Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com