[Python-Dev] Status of various Python branches

[Jeremy Hylton]

Speaking of maintenance branches, the test suite currently fails on
the release22-maint branch.  test_descr encounters a fatal Python
error.  The tail of the output is:

Testing deepcopy of recursive objects...
Testing uninitialized module objects...
Testing pickling of classes with __slots__ ...
Testing __doc__ descriptor...
Testing for __imul__ problems...
Testing that copy.*copy() correctly uses __setstate__...
Testing resurrection of new-style instance...
Fatal Python error: GC object already in linked list

Jeremy