[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: py3k's November update

[pjenvey]

Author: Philip Jenvey <pjenvey at underboss.org>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4929:19ed41511a4b
Date: 2012-12-03 12:03 -0800
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/19ed41511a4b/

Log:	py3k's November update

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+Py3k status update #8
+---------------------
+
+This is the eight status update about our work on the `py3k branch`_, which
+we can work on thanks to all of the people who donated_ to the `py3k
+proposal`_.
+
+Just a short update on November's work: we're now passing about 194 of
+approximately 355 modules of CPython's regression test suite, up from passing
+160 last month. Many test modules only fail a small number of individual tests
+now.
+
+We'd like to thank Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for his contributions, in particular he
+has made significant progress on updating `CPyExt`_ for Python 3 this month.
+
+Some other highlights:
+
+* test_marshal now passes, and there's been significant progress on pickling
+  (thanks Kenny Levinsen and Amaury for implementing int.to/from_bytes)
+
+* We now have a _posixsubprocess module
+
+* More encoding related fixes, which affects many failing tests
+
+* _sre was updated and now test_re almost passes
+
+* Exception behavior is almost complete per the Python 3 specs, what's mostly
+  missing now are the new __context__ and __traceback__ attributes (`PEP
+  3134`_)
+
+* Fixed some crashes and deadlocks occurring during the regression tests
+
+cheers,
+Philip&Antonio
+
+.. _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
+.. _`CPyExt`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension-modules-with.html
+.. _`PEP 3134`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/