[Python-Dev] Have been sick, am behind on mail, let me know if there's anything urgent for me (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Wed Jun 11 07:15:30 CEST 2008

Hi Guido,

glad to hear you're recovering.

Guido van Rossum wrote:

anything someone really needs me to look at ASAP (e.g. a BDFL decision affecting the impending beta release) please send me an email

This seems to require a BDFL decision:

http://bugs.python.org/issue2997

Executive Summary: PyNumberMethods has been changed on py3k back in 2006 with the nb_divide removal, so it's now incompatible with Py2. But there are three more unused struct members behind that field that can be removed for beta1, but have not been removed yet. Should they be removed for cleanliness (patch in the issue) or should nb_divide and nb_inplace_divide instead be restored (rev 43285) to restore backwards compatibility?

Thanks, Stefan

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