[Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sat Mar 18 10:37:04 CET 2006

"Neal Norwitz" <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

I posted a message to c.l.p about the upcoming alpha 1. Just in case anybody here's been snoozing, 2.5 alpha 1 is coming up real quick, hopefully within a couple of weeks. If you have any major features (particularly implemented in C) that you want to see in 2.5, bring it up now. I want to strive for feature completeness by alpha 1. I know we will have some .py modules that won't make it into alpha 1, but they really should make it in by alpha 2 or be deferred to 2.6.

(as previously requested August 12, 2005) (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055356.html)

For 2.5a1...

Some exposure of PyLongAsByteArray() and PyLongFromByteArray() to Python. There was a discussion about this almost a year ago (http://python.org/sf/1023290), and no mechanism (struct format code addition, binascii.tolong/fromlong, long.tostring/fromstring, ...) actually made it into Python 2.4 . At this point, I'd be happy to get /any/ mechanism, with a preference to struct and/or binascii (I'd put them in both, if only because different groups of people people may look for them in both places, and people who use one tend to like to use that one for as much as possible, and because the code additions in both are minor).

Raymond followed up with the following: (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055358.html)

Assign 1023290 to me and I'll get it done in the next month or so.

It was assigned, but he didn't get around to it at the time. I can easily update the patch/test/documentation for struct, but my CPython abilities are somewhat lacking, and I wouldn't be comfortable writing two new functions in the binascii module.

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