On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:52 PM Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Many users still use 3.6 or 3.7. Jumping from 3.7 to 3.11 could break
> extensions in bad way (crash, truncated data, leaked sensitive
> information, execution of arbitrary code). Also, deprecation warnings in
> 3.8 and 3.9 can be easily ignored.
>
> I propose to wait until both of conditions became true:
>
> * 3.7 no longer maintained
> * 3.10 reaches security-only mode.
>

Makes sense.

Python 3.7 will get security fix until 2023-06.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#and-beyond-schedule

Python 3.12 will be released at 2023-10.
So we can change PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN by default from 3.12.

Regards,

-- 
Inada Naoki  <[email protected]>
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