[python-committers] Status of the Derby, and request for another slip

[Larry Hastings]

On 01/25/2014 05:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Stop the Derby. We needn't convert everything for 3.4 (I didn't even
> know that was your goal).

Converting everything was my goal at one point.  At this point it is 
nowhere near viable, not the least because there simply isn't enough 
time.  As discussed yesterday on python-dev (subject: "Argument Clinic: 
what to do with builtins with non-standard signatures?"), and today 
(subject: "New policies for the Derby -- please read!"), there are large 
numbers of functions in Python 3.4 that have signatures that can't be 
expressed by inspect.Signature without semantic changes.  Since we can't 
make those changes for 3.4, we can't convert them to Argument Clinic yet.


//arry/
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