[Python-Dev] peps: Update PEP 399 to include comments from python-dev. (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Apr 13 00:34:42 CEST 2011

2011/4/12 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:59:53 +0200 brett.cannon <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:

Technical details of +the VM providing the accelerated code are allowed to differ as +necessary, e.g., a class being a type when implemented in C. I don't understand what this means ("a class being a type when implemented in C").

+If this test were to provide 100% branch coverage for +heapq.heappop() in the pure Python implementation then the +accelerated C code would be allowed to be added to CPython's standard +library. If it did not, then the test suite would need to be updated +until 100% branch coverage was provided before the accelerated C code +could be added. I really think that's a too strong requirement. We don't want to paralyze development until the stdlib gets 100% coverage in the tests suite.

Presumably this only applies to new code, though, which I would hope would have comprehensive test coverage regardless of this PEP.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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