On 1 February 2014 16:04, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 07:23 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>> Python is the language that cares about backwards-compatibility--bugs and
>> all. If your code runs on version X.Y, it
>> should run without modification on version X.(Y+Z) where Z is a positive
>> in
Am 29.01.14 03:46, schrieb Larry Hastings:
> So this would be a new public ABI function?
Correct.
> Would it be 100% new code, or would you need to refactor code internally
> to achieve it?
See the patch - it's new code.
> Also, just curious: what is typeslots.h used for? I tried searching fo
On 02/01/2014 04:20 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
No, we make a judgment call based on the severity and likelihood of
encountering the bug, the consequences of encountering it, and the
difficulty of working around it after you *do* encounter it.
Thanks for the explanation.
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On 02/01/2014 04:20 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
[snip very nice summary]
So you agree that the bug should be fixed. So do I. My disagreement with Larry is that he would leave the bug in until
Py4k.
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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:27 PM, r.david.murray
wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b3f034f5000f
> changeset: 4:b3f034f5000f
> parent: 2:19d81cc213d7
> user:R David Murray
> date:Sat Feb 01 12:27:07 2014 -0500
> summary:
> whatsnew: move of reload, update ne
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 10:20:24PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 1 February 2014 16:04, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > So we only fix bugs that don't work at all? By which I mean, if the
> > interpreter doesn't crash, we don't fix it?
>
> No, we make a judgment call based on the severity and likeliho
Hi all,
Over on the Python-ideas list, there's a thread about the new statistics
module, and as the author of that module, I'm looking for a bit of
guidance regarding backwards compatibility. Specifically two issues:
(1) With numeric code, what happens if the module become more[1]
accurate in
On 2/1/2014 8:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hi all,
Over on the Python-ideas list, there's a thread about the new statistics
module, and as the author of that module, I'm looking for a bit of
guidance regarding backwards compatibility. Specifically two issues:
(1) With numeric code, what happe
On 2 February 2014 11:06, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Over on the Python-ideas list, there's a thread about the new statistics
> module, and as the author of that module, I'm looking for a bit of
> guidance regarding backwards compatibility. Specifically two issues:
>
>
> (1) With numeric
