As an update, I have the C version done and basically tested as an extension (I "cheated" on the tests by using hypothesis, so I still need to write unittest-style tests), just writing the Python version with tests now.
I know there is a feature freeze coming in soon, is there a strict deadline here if we want this for Python 3.7? Best, Paul On 12/01/2017 12:47 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Paul G <p...@ganssle.io> wrote: > >> I can write at least a pure Python implementation in the next few days, if >> not a full C implementation. Shouldn't be too hard since I've got a few >> different Cython implementations sitting around anyway. >> >> > Thanks! > > -CHB > > > > >> On November 29, 2017 7:06:58 PM EST, Alexander Belopolsky < >> alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> indeed what is the holdup? I don't recall anyone saying it was a bad >>>> idea in the last discussion. >>>> >>>> Do we just need an implementation? >>>> >>>> Is the one in the Bug Report not up to snuff? If not, then what's wrong >>>> with it? This is just not that hard a problem to solve. >>>> >>> >>> >>> See my comment from over a year ago: <https://bugs.python.org/ >>> issue15873#msg273609>. The proposed patch did not have a C >>> implementation, but we can use the same approach as with strptime and call >>> Python code from C. If users will start complaining about performance, we >>> can speed it up in later releases. Also the new method needs to be >>> documented. Overall, it does not seem to require more than an hour of work >>> from a motivated developer, but the people who contributed to the issue in >>> the past seem to have lost their interest. >>> >> > >
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