[Python-Dev] Masks in getargs.c (was: 2.3b1 release) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:00:54 -0400

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> I'd like to do a 2.3b1 release someday. Maybe at the end of next > week, that would be Friday April 25. If anyone has something that > needs to be done before this release go out, please let me know!

From: Thomas Heller <theller@python.net>

I would still like to work on http://www.python.org/sf/595026 support for masks in getargs.c.

Great!

Jack requested that this change should be implement shortly after the release of 2.3a2, but this is too late now as it seems ;-)

What to do?

Do it ASAP.

Implement it now and commit it after 2.3b1 is released, or delay this until 2.3 final is released. I have to admit that I'm sure I can implement it for 32-bit Windows, but it would have to be tested (and maybe completed) on other, especially 64-bit platforms as well.

If you can get something rough into 2.3b1, it can be improved while 2.3b2 is cooking.

And it introduces incompatibilities.

What kind? I thought it would be a new format code?

BTW: Since you want to release a beta version, what's the state of the FutureWarning about hex/oct constants: will this stay the way it is?

Probably, unless you hve a better idea. :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)