[Python-Dev] Preserving the definition order of class namespaces.

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, May 25, 2015, at 03:33, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:14:56 -0700
> Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/23/2015 07:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > > Eric clarified for me that Larry was considering granting a feature
> > > freeze exemption to defer landing this to beta 2 while Eric tracked
> > > down a segfault bug in the current patch that provides a C
> > > implementation of OrderedDict.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm willing to grant the feature freeze exception, assuming he can 
> > find general approval from the community (and assuming he still has 
> > Guido's blessing).  I just wanted a little more sunlight on the topic, 
> > rather than rushing to check it in.
> 
> Given the pain that has gone into making the patch segfault- and
> reference leak-free, and given it adds a lot of complication in the
> data types area, I'm frankly uneasy with having this land after the
> feature freeze. It's a sure recipe to *add* instability rather than
> remove it.

I agree completely with Antoine. All the hard work that's gone into it
recently should make it easy to land stably in 3.6. :)