[Python-Dev] Python 2.5 Schedule

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Raymond]
> FYI, I have several non-major C components to go in but not in time for alpha 
> 1.
> They include some minor fix-ups in the sets module, the str.partition 
> function,
> add gc to itertools.tee, a couple of functions in binascii, add
> itertools.izip_longest, Crutcher's patch to make exec take dictionary 
> arguments,
> move the peepholer to just before the assembler, and implement Alex's iterator
> copier for a number of iterables (xrange, repeat, count, reversed, list, 
> tuple,
> deque, dict, and set).  All of these have been previously discussed/approved 
> and
> should go in to the second alpha.
>
> The only one that is borderline is Crutcher's patch.  I will try to free up 
> some
> time to get that into alpha 1.  It touches critical parts of the interpreted 
> and
> needs to be reviewed, tested, timed, and exercised thoroughly.

[Neal]
> All those seem reasonable.  Do the functions you mention address Josiah's 
> patch?

I believe so.  They are binascii.b2long() and binascii.long2b().
And, no, the name of the latter wasn't taken from a song ;-)


Raymond