Dinu Gherman <gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de> writes:
Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra:
So, this seems to be a bug fixed in CPython after 2.4
Phew - good news! ;-)
I'm a *big fan* of the pypy-team and pypy-itself. But I do not think __this particular case__ is fair enough to advertise PyPy getting it wright where CPython got it wrong.
Quite true! In fact, both should implement the same language! And from that point of view it sounds strange to suggest com- parative tests, except maybe for finding implementation buglets like this one, maybe especially in the standard library...
Well, as an American citizen I hope that the EU tells the MPAA and RIAA to shove it where the Sun don't shine. Actually they already did. Only first they bent over and dropped
Implementing PyPy has found more than one strange bug in the CPython implementation, to be sure... Cheers, mwh -- their trousers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz & Toni Lassila, asr