[python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Georg Brandl<g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>
>> A data corruption issue has been discovered in the C IO lib in Python
>> 3.1 (http://bugs.python.org/issue6629). I've applied a fix, and I wonder
>> whether we should make a release quickly to minimize the probability of
>> users hitting the problem?
>> (Georg tells me Benjamin is on holiday, however)
>
> FWIW, I also think we should make a new micro release right now.  We can't
> be seen to take data corruption issues with the most basic file operations
> lightly, especially in Python 3; otherwise, people will think we still don't
> consider it ready for use.
>
> We can either make a release with only that patch applied, or a release of
> the full 3.1-maint branch, but the latter would need alphas and betas.

+1

> Georg
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