On 27 November 2015 at 17:42, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nick Coghlan writes:
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> > This is a significant rewrite that switches the PEP to a Standards
> > Track PEP proposing two new features for 2.7.12+: an
> > "ssl._verify_https_certificates()" configuration function, and a
> > "PYTHONHTTP
On 27 November 2015 at 10:52, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 27 November 2015 at 03:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 03:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>In this particular case, the migration problems were already raised in
>>>the PEP 476 discussions, and the decision was made to *not* provi
On Nov 26, 2015 4:53 PM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote:
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> On 27 November 2015 at 03:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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> > Likewise in Ubuntu, we try to keep deviations from Debian at a minimum,
and
> > document them when we must deviate. Ubuntu is a community driven
distro so
> > while Canonical itself has cu
Hi
I have come across some dubious code in Objects/weakrefobject.c which looks
like a bug to me, but wanted to run it past others.
This was discovered from looking at crash dumps from a multithreaded python app
(using Python 2.7.9, but the same weakref code exists in 3.5 and hg tip).
The code
On 27 November 2015 at 03:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 03:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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>>I'm not a big fan of it either, but it's the way sustainable
>>commercial open source distribution works in practice:
>
> While it's inevitable that redistributors have to deviate from upstrea
On Nov 26, 2015, at 03:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>I'm not a big fan of it either, but it's the way sustainable
>commercial open source distribution works in practice:
While it's inevitable that redistributors have to deviate from upstream, in
Debian and Ubuntu, we really try to keep that at a mi
On Nov 26, 2015, at 02:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>PEP 476 rejected providing a public indefinitely maintained API for this, so
>PEP 493 is specifically about helping commercial redistributors offer a
>smoother transition plan to customers without affecting the public Python
>level API, and withou
