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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Nov 2 08:09:57 EDT 2016

On 11/2/2016 3:54 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote:

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

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?

That depends on the maintainers of a particular module. Some core developers have stopped patching 2.7. One should ask before writing and submitting non-security 2.7 code that does not clearly have a chance to be applied.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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