[Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2010/7/25 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>:
>> Nick Coghlan, 25.07.2010 08:29:
>>>
>>> We knew PEP 380 would be hurt by the moratorium when the moratorium
>>> PEP went through.
>>>
>>> The goals of the moratorium itself, in making it possible to have a
>>> 3.2 release that is fully supported by all of the major Python
>>> implementations, still apply, and I believe making an exception for
>>> PEP 380 *would* make those goals much harder to achieve.
>>
>> IMO, it would be worth asking the other implementations if that is the case.
>> It may well be that they are interested in implementing it anyway, so
>> getting it into CPython and the other implementations at the same time may
>> actually be possible. It wouldn't meet the moratorium as such, but it would
>> absolutely comply with its goals.
>
> Speaking from the PyPy perspective, syntax is not really a problem.
> It, for example, took me ~1 week to more PyPy from 2.5 to 2.7 syntax.
> A more interesting moratorium for us would be one on tests that are
> not implementation portable. :)
>
>
>

I thought at the last two pycons, we've all discussed that we should
have a system in place for marking tests *and* modules within the
stdlib as "will only work on FooPython". I suspect that it's waiting
on the shared-stdlib effort, which is waiting on mercurial (and time).

jesse