[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: merge

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Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4182:c61a7069d337
Date: 2012-04-11 15:02 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/c61a7069d337/

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+Py3k status update #3
+---------------------
+
+This is the third status update about my work on the `py3k branch`_, which I
+can work on thanks to all of the people who donated_ to the `py3k proposal`_.
+
+A lot of work has been done during the last month: as usual, the list of
+changes is too big to be reported in a detalied way, so this is just a summary
+of what happened.
+
+One of the most active areas was killing old and deprecated features. In
+particular, we killed support for the ``__cmp__`` special method and its
+counsins, the ``cmp`` builtin function and keyword argument for
+``list.sort()`` and ``sorted()``.  Killing is easy, but then you have to fix
+all the places which breaks because of this, including all the types which
+relied on ``__cmp__`` to be comparable,, fixing all the tests which tried to
+order objects which are no longer ordeable now, or implementing new behavior
+like forbidding calling ``hash()`` on objects which implement ``__eq__`` but
+not ``__hash__``.
+
+Among the other features, we killed lots of now-gone functions in the
+``operator`` module, the builtins ``apply()``, ``reduce()`` and ``buffer``,
+and the ``os.*`` functions to deal with temporary files, which has been
+deprecated in favour of the new ``tempfile`` module.
+
+The other topic which can't miss in a py3k status update is, as usual,
+string-vs-unicode. At this round, we fixed bugs in string formatting (in
+particular to teach ``format()`` to always use unicode strings) and various
+corner cases about when calling the (possibly overridden) ``__str__`` method
+on subclasses of ``str``. Believe me, you don't want to know the precise rules
+:-).
+
+Other features which we worked on and fixed tests include, but are not limited
+to, ``marshal``, ``hashlib``, ``zipimport``, ``_socket`` and ``itertools``,
+plus the habitual endless lists of tests which fail for shallow reasons such
+as the syntactic differences, ``int`` vs ``long``, ``range()`` vs
+``list(range())`` etc. As a result, the number of failing tests dropped_ from
+650 to 235: we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel :-)
+
+Benjamin finished implementing Python 3 syntax. Most of it was small cleanups
+and tweaks to be compatible with CPython such as making ``True`` and ``False``
+keywords and preventing ``. . .`` from being parsed as ``Ellipsis``. Larger
+syntax additions included keyword only arguments and function annotations.
+
+Finally, we did some RPython fixes, so that it is possible again to translate
+PyPy in the py3k branch. However, the resuling binary is a strange beast which
+mixes python 2 and python 3 semantics, so it is unusable for anything but
+`showing friends how cool it's that`_.
+
+.. image:: py3k-activity-march.png
+
+I would like to underline that I was not alone in doing all this work. In
+particular, a lot of people joined the PyPy sprint at Pycon and worked on the
+branch, as you can clearly see in this activity graph. I would like to thank
+all who helped!
+
+cheers,
+Antonio and Benjamin
+
+.. _donated: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-stage-thanks-to.html
+.. _`py3k proposal`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
+.. _`py3k branch`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/py3k
+.. _`showing friends how cool it's that`: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/577006/
+.. _dropped: http://buildbot.pypy.org/summary?category=linux32&branch=py3k&recentrev=53956:3c8ac35c653a
diff --git a/sprintinfo/leipzig2012/people.txt b/sprintinfo/leipzig2012/people.txt
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     Name              Arrive/Depart     Accomodation 
 ==================== ============== =====================
 Armin Rigo           ?              ?
+Christian Tismer     ?              ?
 ==================== ============== =====================