On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:36 AM <esmeraldagar...@byom.de> wrote: > > I just stumbled upon the following issue and subsequent pull request. It is a > very small bugfix. There is currently a bug in Python and this pull request > fixes it. It's not a new feature or an enhancement, it is a bugfix! Yet, it > doesn't get reviewed, nor merged. And this has been going on since March > 2017. Why not just merge this? It's not like it's huge or obstructing or > obfuscating the current code base? There's always time to write an > improvement or a complete rewrite of this module feature later for an > upcoming minor release. But if there is currently a bug in Python and the > bugfix is available - why doesn't it get merged? > > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4819 > > If this doesn't get fixed, doesn't that mean the Python review process is > flawed? Sure, Python is an open source project and many people just work in > their free time. But this doesn't really apply here, does it? The bugfix is > available. Only a review is required. All this is happening while new > features get added to Python with every new minor version. While the bug is > allowed to live there. Please help me understand how this can happen. > > I love Python. No hard feelings. But this is really bugging me and I can't > help but feel disappointed. >
It looks like that was closed in favour of a different PR: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16341 There's been quite a bit of discussion on both of them. Are you sure you linked to the correct pull request? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/HW7IWAAYKSTOMXCXAVAZM3L7RGFSTBTO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
