[Python-Dev] Python 2.7.7 and PEP 466

[Donald Stufft]

Well I believe Alex did what he did during his work day @ Rackspace.

Distros specifically I don’t believe so, although both Alex and myself agreed that it
made sense for the SSL changes to wait until after the other changes since it was
the largest and most complicated. I think that’s the one where it makes the most
sense to try and garner help from Red Hat or the like.

Perhaps Nick knows someone at Red Hat we can poke to see if they’d be willing
to do the SSL patch :)

On May 18, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Donald. Did anyone get any help from Red Hat or other distros?
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> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On May 18, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> Greetings Python users,
>> Python 2.7.7 release candidate 1 is now available for download. [...]
>> 
>>     http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/e32e3a9f3902/Misc/NEWS
>> 
>> So what became of PEP 466? This Misc/NEWS only mentions hmac.compare_digest.
>> 
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> The SSL changes were too large to get done before 2.7.7
> 
> The pbkdf2 has a patch sitting on the tracker (http://bugs.python.org/issue21304) Alex wanted someone to review before commit. I looked over it but I don’t feel strong enough in C code to call it a proper review.
> 
> The guaranteed_algorithms bug depends on the pbkdf2 bug (http://bugs.python.org/issue21307)
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> The os.urandom change had some argument and some concern that the related change in 3.4 was still new and had some bugs being ironed out so it was punted until 2.7.8 (http://bugs.python.org/issue21305)
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> And that was everything from PEP 466.
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