[Python-Dev] 2.5 status
Georg Brandl
g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Aug 4 11:49:24 CEST 2006
Neal Norwitz wrote:
> Things are getting better, but we still have some really important
> outstanding issues. PLEASE CONTINUE TESTING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
> Also, it would be great to use as many tools as possible to find bugs
> and improve quality. It would be especially nice to run Purify on
> Windows.
>
> I've updated PEP 356 with the current status. The current schedule is:
>
> rc 1: August 18, 2006 [planned]
> final: September 12, 2006 [planned]
>
> This somewhat strange schedule is to accommodate availability of
> people cutting the release. A branch will be made when the release
> candidate is done. Don't try to rush bug fixes in. Let's try to keep
> things stable. Keep the doc fixes coming.
> http://python.org/sf/1523610 - PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords
> potential core dump
This one's almost fixed if we can decide what to do with "levels".
I wrote some time ago:
"""
With respect to this bug (which is about stack issues in Python/getargs.c
involving misuse of the "levels" array), I think that we can drop the
"levels" thing completely. It's only there to tell the user which exact item
passed as part of a tuple argument cannot be accepted (and only if that
function is implemented in C code). As tuple arguments
are very rare "argument x" should be enough to tell the user that
something's wrong with that tuple.
"""
Georg
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