[Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule
Raymond Hettinger
python at rcn.com
Sun Mar 19 00:38:34 CET 2006
[Raymond]
> FYI, I have several non-major C components to go in but not in time for alpha
> 1.
> They include some minor fix-ups in the sets module, the str.partition
> function,
> add gc to itertools.tee, a couple of functions in binascii, add
> itertools.izip_longest, Crutcher's patch to make exec take dictionary
> arguments,
> move the peepholer to just before the assembler, and implement Alex's iterator
> copier for a number of iterables (xrange, repeat, count, reversed, list,
> tuple,
> deque, dict, and set). All of these have been previously discussed/approved
> and
> should go in to the second alpha.
>
> The only one that is borderline is Crutcher's patch. I will try to free up
> some
> time to get that into alpha 1. It touches critical parts of the interpreted
> and
> needs to be reviewed, tested, timed, and exercised thoroughly.
[Neal]
> All those seem reasonable. Do the functions you mention address Josiah's
> patch?
I believe so. They are binascii.b2long() and binascii.long2b().
And, no, the name of the latter wasn't taken from a song ;-)
Raymond
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