[Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C (original) (raw)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 2 03:54:48 EDT 2016

On 02/11/2016 06:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Rasmus Villemoes writes:

> First, apologies if this isn't the appropriate list; I trust I'll be > nudged in the right direction. Given the relatively advanced state of patch, I doubt that this is the wrong list. However, you would probably benefit from posting to python-list at python.org to collect use cases. (We don't "vote" on such additions. Rather the senior devs consider whether the use cases seem general enough to justify on-going maintenance costs for new code.) > I would of course also be very interested in getting it into 2.7.x, > but I assume that's impossible(?). That is correct. This is clearly a feature, and 2.7 currently is accepting only security-related patches (broadly construed -- a sufficiently severe bug, such as a crash or infloop, is security- related because it could be used to implement a DoS attack).

Surely patches related to any bugs, not just security related ones, will be accepted until EOL in 2020?

-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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