Author: Philip Jenvey <pjen...@underboss.org> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4929:19ed41511a4b Date: 2012-12-03 12:03 -0800 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/19ed41511a4b/
Log: py3k's November update diff --git a/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-8.rst b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-8.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-8.rst @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Py3k status update #8 +--------------------- + +This is the eight status update about our work on the `py3k branch`_, which +we can work on thanks to all of the people who donated_ to the `py3k +proposal`_. + +Just a short update on November's work: we're now passing about 194 of +approximately 355 modules of CPython's regression test suite, up from passing +160 last month. Many test modules only fail a small number of individual tests +now. + +We'd like to thank Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for his contributions, in particular he +has made significant progress on updating `CPyExt`_ for Python 3 this month. + +Some other highlights: + +* test_marshal now passes, and there's been significant progress on pickling + (thanks Kenny Levinsen and Amaury for implementing int.to/from_bytes) + +* We now have a _posixsubprocess module + +* More encoding related fixes, which affects many failing tests + +* _sre was updated and now test_re almost passes + +* Exception behavior is almost complete per the Python 3 specs, what's mostly + missing now are the new __context__ and __traceback__ attributes (`PEP + 3134`_) + +* Fixed some crashes and deadlocks occurring during the regression tests + +cheers, +Philip&Antonio + +.. _donated: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-stage-thanks-to.html +.. _`py3k proposal`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html +.. _`py3k branch`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/py3k +.. _`CPyExt`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension-modules-with.html +.. _`PEP 3134`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/ _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
