On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there. > > I‘d like to have some pair of eyes on a couple of patches i´ve submitted.
Sorry, can't help you with these, but I've got a language nit... > http://bugs.python.org/issue16475 > > This fixes a regression in marshal between 2.x and 3.x, reinstating string > reuse and internment support. In addition, it generalizes string reuse to It's not internment -- that means imprisonment. The term we use is interning. (The dictionary will tell you that means imprisonment too -- but it's long been used as the name for this particular technique. Internment has not.) > all objects, allowing for data optimizations to be made on code objects > before marshaling. This straighforward extension considerably enhances the > utility of the marshal module as a low-cost data serialization tool. > > > > http://bugs.python.org/issue16487 > > This allows ssl contexts to be initialized with certificates from memory, > rather than having to rely on the openssl performing its own file IO to read > them. This allows clients and servers that have their certificates > deployed e.g. from a db or verbatim in a module, to use ssl without having > to resort to temporary disk files and physical IO. > > > > Both of these patches are bourne out of work performed at CCP. The former > comes from work on marshal in order to support our own code object > optimizer, which helps save memory on the PS3. The second comes from us > supporting isolated embedded python servers and clients and not wanting to > complicate things with unnecessary temporary files for storing credidentials > that are obtained from elsewhere. > > > > Both were, of course, 2.7 modifications, that I have now ported to 3.4 for > the benefit of the python community. > > > > K > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
