On 1/11/07, Larry Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just posted my first pass of the full "lazy strings" patch, with > both "lazy concatenation" and "lazy slices". It's available on > Sourceforge here: > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1629305&group_id=5470
I'll try to look at it ASAP! > It applies cleanly (with "patch -p1") against the current revision of > the Py3k branch, #53392. The resulting tree builds as cleanly as an > unpatched Py3k, on both Win32 and Linux, and the output from the > regression tests is also unchanged. > > As discussed on that page, the current version of the patch could cause > crashes in low-memory conditions. I welcome suggestions on how best to > resolve this problem. Apart from that fly in the ointment I'm pretty > happy with how it all turned out. What kind of crashes? The right thing to do is to raise MemoryError. Is there anything besides sheer will power that prevents that? > In case it's of interest, I'm using a local revision control system to > track my changes. It makes working with a read-only Subversion > repository much easier; in particular it makes generating patches and > updating to new revisions of Python a snap. I blogged about it here: > http://www.momentaryfascinations.com/ > And that's all I'm gonna say about that. Yes, I've heard good things about Mercurial. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
