[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 2 01:45:01 CEST 2008

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Barry Warsaw schrieb:

> This is a reminder that the LAST planned alpha releases of Python 2.6 > and 3.0 are scheduled for next Wednesday, 07-May-2008. Please be > diligent over the next week so that none of your changes break Python. > The stable buildbots look moderately okay, let's see what we can do > about getting them all green: I like to draw some attention to two features for the last alpha: PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/

I like this, except one issue: I really don't like the .local directory. I don't see any compelling reason why this needs to be ~/.local/lib/ -- IMO it should just be ~/lib/. There's no need to hide it from view, especially since the user is expected to manage this explicitly.

Alternative memory allocation for ints, floats and longs using PyMalloc instead of the current block allocation. The issue has been discussed in great length a few months ago but without a final decision. http://bugs.python.org/issue2039

I might look at this later; but it seems to me to be a pure optimization and thus not required to be in before the first beta.

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