[Python-Dev] django_v2 benchmark compatibility fix for Python 3.6

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:18:54 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/25/2015 10:51 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:11:37 -0000, "Papa, Florin" <florin.papa at intel.com> wrote:
> >> My name is Florin Papa and I work in the Server Languages Optimizations Team at Intel Corporation.
> >>
> >> I would like to submit a patch that solves compatibility issues of the django_v2 benchmark in the Grand Unified Python Benchmark. The django_v2 benchmark uses inspect.getargspec(), which is deprecated and was removed in Python 3.6. Therefore, it crashes with the message "ImportError: cannot import name 'getargspec'" when using the latest version of Python on the default branch.
> >>
> >> The patch modifies the benchmark to use inspect.signature() when Python version is 3.6 or above and keep using inspect.getargspec() otherwise.
> >
> > Note that Papa has submitted the patch to the tracker:
> >
> >      http://bugs.python.org/issue24934
> >
> > I'm not myself sure how we are maintaining that repo
> > (https://hg.python.org/benchmarks), but it does seem like the bug
> > tracker is the right place for such a patch.
> 
> Is the django_v2 benchmark original to benchmarks, or a copy from django?

Yeah, that's one question that was in my mind when I said I don't know
how we maintain that repo.  I'm pretty sure it was originally a copy of the
django project, but how do we maintain it?

--David