[Python-Dev] PEP 412 has been accepted

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:52:43 -0500
Brett Cannon <brett at yvrsfo.ca> wrote:
> Since PEP 412 has code that doesn't break tests anymore (thanks to hash
> randomization), it was just accepted. Mark, can you make sure there is an
> up-to-date patch in the tracker so people can potentially look at the code
> at the sprints here at PyCon? And also please apply for core dev privileges
> (http://docs.python.org/devguide/coredev.html) so that we can make you fix
> bugs. =)

For the record (I had to look it up), PEP 412 is Mark Shannon's
"Key-Sharing Dictionary", an optimization that decreases memory
consumption of instances.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0412/

Regards

Antoine.