[Python-Dev] need reviewers for #16475 and #16487

Kristján Valur Jónsson kristjan at ccpgames.com
Mon Nov 19 11:29:38 CET 2012


Thank you!  The sensitivity of this issue obviously is born out of our collective
bad conscience for this unjust incarceration.
K

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gvanrossum at gmail.com [mailto:gvanrossum at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Guido van Rossum
> >
> > This fixes a regression in marshal between 2.x and 3.x, reinstating
> > string reuse and internment support.  In addition, it generalizes
> > string reuse to
> 
> It's not internment -- that means imprisonment. The term we use is
> interning. (The dictionary will tell you that means imprisonment too
> -- but it's long been used as the name for this particular technique.
> Internment has not.)




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