[Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/11/2016 06:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Rasmus Villemoes writes:
>
>  > First, apologies if this isn't the appropriate list; I trust I'll be
>  > nudged in the right direction.
>
> Given the relatively advanced state of patch, I doubt that this is the
> *wrong* list.  However, you would probably benefit from posting to
> python-list at python.org to collect use cases.  (We don't "vote" on such
> additions.  Rather the senior devs consider whether the use cases seem
> general enough to justify on-going maintenance costs for new code.)
>
>  > I would of course also be very interested in getting it into 2.7.x,
>  > but I assume that's impossible(?).
>
> That is correct.  This is clearly a feature, and 2.7 currently is
> accepting only security-related patches (broadly construed -- a
> sufficiently severe bug, such as a crash or infloop, is security-
> related because it could be used to implement a DoS attack).
>

Surely patches related to any bugs, not just security related ones, will 
be accepted until EOL in 2020?

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Mark Lawrence