[Python-Dev] Preserving the definition order of class namespaces. (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon May 25 09:33:14 CEST 2015

On Sat, 23 May 2015 20:14:56 -0700 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 05/23/2015 07:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Eric clarified for me that Larry was considering granting a feature > freeze exemption to defer landing this to beta 2 while Eric tracked > down a segfault bug in the current patch that provides a C > implementation of OrderedDict. Yeah, I'm willing to grant the feature freeze exception, assuming he can find general approval from the community (and assuming he still has Guido's blessing). I just wanted a little more sunlight on the topic, rather than rushing to check it in.

Given the pain that has gone into making the patch segfault- and reference leak-free, and given it adds a lot of complication in the data types area, I'm frankly uneasy with having this land after the feature freeze. It's a sure recipe to add instability rather than remove it.

Regards

Antoine.

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