Re: Forthcoming 2.7 beta 3

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Jeff Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Goodness, it's simply raining beta releases these days. It's certainly
> seems that to have a recent beta out there is creating interest and
> expectation.
>

Yes, it feels like we have turned a corner for sure!


>
> I have some fixes for "%f" style formatting I think it would be safe to
> push. (It looks slightly lop-sided as I'm still cooking integer formatting
> that will allow a consistent approach.) So I will push it if I have no
> problems integrating it.
>

Great! I think this is the right approach if it's straightforward to get
the initial version of your code. This should stabilize such tests as
test_strtod, right?


>
> As long as there'll be another beta along in a few months there's no need
> to rush in work that would be better not committed yet.
>

I'm about to send out a proposed roadmap in a separate email re beta 4 and
release candidate 1. You should have the time you need, but this time
around, I'm proposing actual dates :)


>
> bytearry.__len__: sorry, I wrote that stuff before I properly understood
> calls to types sub-classed in Python. I predict more problems, and I've
> been meaning to revisit more generally.
>

Concrete examples help us understand abstract problems :)


>
> On the stack overflow message, this seems an entirely reasonable extra
> clue to offer.
>

Cool, I will apply Michael's suggested wording change.

- Jim

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