[Python-Dev] Should I postpone PEP 558 (locals() semantics) to Python 3.9? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri May 31 12:43:20 EDT 2019


On 5/31/2019 6:20 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On Fri., 31 May 2019, 6:34 pm Nathaniel Smith, <njs at pobox.com_ _<mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:

I wouldn't mind having a little more breathing room. It's frustrating to miss the train, but these bugs are several decades old so I guess nothing terrible will happen if their fixes get delayed to 3.9.

Agreed.

And I could put that extra time to good use, as starting to flesh out the proxy implementation showed that we're missing a lot of scaffolding to help make it easier to define new low level mapping types without duplicating a lot of code.

I'll update the PEP headers accordingly.

I believe some of your suggested doc change is true now, will remain true, and improves on the current locals entry. No PEP approval is needed for this much.

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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