[Python-Dev] Minor cookielib changes for 2.4b1

[John J Lee]

Sorry for not replying earlier: I've not been well.

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> > John J Lee wrote:
> > > The patch contains uncontroversial changes to cookielib and
> associated
> > > modules, documentation and tests. Would be unfortunate not to have
> these
> > > in 2.4.0.
> 
> [Martin]
> > What precisely makes these changes uncontroversial? The fact that no
> > controversion has been developed?

My attempt at time-travel was unsuccessful, sorry.  :-)


> I've looked over the patch and think most of it should wait until Py2.5.
> Refactorings of this magnitude should be done early in the development
> cycle to allow time to discover and fix issues if something gets mucked
> up.  

Hadn't realised how late it was.


> A couple of the doc changes should probably go in for Py2.4b2 (a note on
> thread safety and an example of how to display debugging information).
> If no one objects, I'll put those in after the beta.  Also there is a
> minor readability fix (using escape sequences) for the test suite that
> is reasonable for Py2.4.

Thanks, Raymond.


John