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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon May 25 21:01:33 CEST 2015

On Mon, May 25, 2015, at 03:33, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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.

I agree completely with Antoine. All the hard work that's gone into it recently should make it easy to land stably in 3.6. :)

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