[Python-Dev] Reminder: 3.6.0b3 snapshot 2016-10-31 12:00 UTC

2016-10-28 Thread Ned Deily
The third, and next-to-last, beta snapshot planned for the 3.6 release cycle is coming up in a few days. With fewer than 7 weeks remaining until the 3.6.0 release, it is very important that we all focus on stability and correctness. Please try to make sure that all remaining non-doc issues ass

Re: [Python-Dev] Clarification for concurrent.futures.Future

2016-10-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
It means that the API for setting results/exceptions is essentially private and may change. So if you use this you risk that your code will break randomly at some point in the future when you upgrade Python. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.o

[Python-Dev] Clarification for concurrent.futures.Future

2016-10-28 Thread Mark Spruiell
The docs for this class state: "Future instances are created by Executor.submit() and should not be created directly except for testing." https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#future-objects We have a need for a thread-safe future type in our extension but this statement make

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2016-10-28 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2016-10-21 - 2016-10-28) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open5525 ( +1) closed 34779 (+51) total 40304 (+52) Open issues wit