[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 361: Python 2.6/3.0 release schedule

[Thomas Heller]

Barry Warsaw schrieb:
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> On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote:
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>> Hey Barry,
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>> Thanks for putting this PEP together.  This is really helpful.
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> Hi Travis... thanks!
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>> I didn't see discussion of PEP 3118 and it's features back-ported to
>> Python 2.6.  I've already back-ported the new buffer API as an  
>> addition
>> to the old buffer protocol.
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>> In addition, I've planned to back-port the improvements to the struct
>> module and the addition of the memoryview object (both in PEP 3118).
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>> If you have questions, we can talk tomorrow.
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> Let's do that.  Neal has put together a list of things that he thinks  
> needs to be backported.  We should formalize that list (as best we can  
> given we're still in alpha), and add it to the PEP.  I think we should  
> also make sure we have open issues in the tracker for each backporting  
> task.
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I think that
  [issue1971] ctypes exposing the pep 3118 buffer interface
should / could also be backported to 2.6 (once it is merged into py3k).

Thomas