Gerald Dalley added the comment:
I and a few others have run into issues with the Enum constructors producing
spurious reference cycles. This can cause memory explosions if large objects
like numpy arrays are held in any of the relevant stack frames. Based on
https://bugs.python.org
Gerald Dalley added the comment:
ITSM?
The motivating use case here comes from "nan" strings produced by libc in
extension modules (even though python itself and some major libraries like
numpy are consistent). At least some versions Solaris and Linux differ in this
parti
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It would be helpful to have a doctest flag that makes the test case insensitive.
Use case: nan values are printed as "nan" with typical Linux implementations,
but as "NaN" on other operating systems like Solaris.
In a naive implementat
Gerald Dalley added the comment:
Another use case: for distributed processing, it's handy to be able to pickle
interactive functions and functions that are part of a script. The user can
then remotely execute a broader set of functions than can be pickled by
default. This is espec
