On 2015-05-27 11:02 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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It prevents loading the coverage.py extension. It'd be great to get a new beta release soon. :) Until your email, I hadn't fully thought through the consequences, but the bug is actually going to block a*lot* of potential testing of the beta release - anything that requires a C extension module that isn't a top level module isn't going to work with 3.5b1.

It would also be great to release the new beta shortly with the new OrderedDict implemented in C and math.isclose(). Yury

On 05/27/2015 08:02 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

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This issue has been fixed, but a day or two late for 3.5b1. Aye, we only found out about the missing test case via feedback *on*

On 28 May 2015 at 12:51, Ned Batchelder wrote: the beta. We had never needed to worry about it before, but it turns out all our extension modules in the standard library are top level modules and we didn't previously have an explicit test for the submodule case :(

Well, certainly this sounds like something that needs to go into the regression test suite. Can someone create the issue? ... and the patch? //arry/

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 28 May 2015 at 14:30, Larry Hastings wrote:

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On 05/27/2015 07:51 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:

This issue has been fixed, but a day or two late for 3.5b1. It prevents loading the coverage.py extension. It'd be great to get a new beta release soon. :)

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/

Aye, it's the long gap from May 24 (3.5b1) to July 5 (3.5b2) that we were hoping to see shortened if it was possible to get the release team together.

The fact folks can't currently import extension modules that aren't at top level is unfortunately going to limit the amount of 3.5b1 testing the community can do in those 6 weeks :(

Just chiming in to confirm that yep, numpy (and thus the whole numerical stack) are also missing on 3.5b1. Of course this was filed as a bug report on numpy :-): https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5915 I guess the good news is that people are in fact testing the beta, but it sounds like pretty much the only code running on b1 is pure Python code whose entire dependency chain is also pure Python code. On the upside, compatibility between PyPy and CPython has improved greatly ;-). -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org