Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6 are now available

2018-08-02 Thread Larry Hastings
On 08/02/2018 07:17 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: 3.4.9 and 3.5.6 have no more known security vulnerabilities :-) Well, not to be a complete pill, but... https://bugs.python.org/issue17180 https://bugs.python.org/issue17239 https://bugs.python.org/issue19050 Sadly, just because they're

Re: [Python-Dev] Error message for wrong number of arguments

2018-08-02 Thread Chris Barker via Python-Dev
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Armin Rigo wrote: > On 30 July 2018 at 22:19, Chris Barker via Python-Dev > wrote: > > Oh well. This is a serious usability issue -- but what can you do? > > I think that argument clinic knows if the built-in function is > supposed to be a method or a function. I

Re: [Python-Dev] New _Py_InitializeFromConfig() function (PEP 432)

2018-08-02 Thread Victor Stinner
2018-08-02 1:18 GMT+02:00 Eric Snow : > The "core" config is basically the config for the runtime. In fact, > PEP 432 renamed "core" to "runtime". Please keep the firm distinction > between the runtime and the (main) interpreter. There is already something called _PyRuntime but it's shared betwe

Re: [Python-Dev] New _Py_InitializeFromConfig() function (PEP 432)

2018-08-02 Thread Victor Stinner
2018-08-02 17:17 GMT+02:00 Eric Snow : > Note that there are backward compatibility issues to deal with. AFAIU > if we start ignoring those global variables during initialization then > it's going to cause problems for embedders. One of the first operation of Py_Initialize(), Py_Main() and _PyCor

Re: [Python-Dev] New _Py_InitializeFromConfig() function (PEP 432)

2018-08-02 Thread Eric Snow
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:50 AM Victor Stinner wrote: > I'm still doing further bug fixes and cleanup in the master branch: > https://bugs.python.org/issue34170 > > I'm doing more and more changes. Yeah, it's a question of what you plan to backport. As Barry suggested, it would be great if you ha

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6 are now available

2018-08-02 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, 2018-08-02 16:00 GMT+02:00 Larry Hastings : > On behalf of the Python development community, I'm happy to announce the > availability of Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6. Great! FYI these versions fix two security vulnerabilities: (*) CVE-2018-1000117: Buffer overflow vulnerability in os.symlin

[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6 are now available

2018-08-02 Thread Larry Hastings
On behalf of the Python development community, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.4.9 and Python 3.5.6. Both Python 3.4 and 3.5 are in "security fixes only" mode.  Both versions only accept security fixes, not conventional bug fixes, and both releases are source-only. You

Re: [Python-Dev] test_zlib.py suggestion

2018-08-02 Thread Michael
On 01/08/2018 18:03, Brett Cannon wrote: Open an issue as this will surely get forgotten otherwise, then people can discuss on the issue how to handle this. Will do. I have more homework - as I just tested AIX 7.1 TL5 as a build system. The good news is libz.a is finally updated to something new

Re: [Python-Dev] New _Py_InitializeFromConfig() function (PEP 432)

2018-08-02 Thread Victor Stinner
2018-08-02 1:18 GMT+02:00 Eric Snow : > Backporting shouldn't be so risky since it's all private API and there > are few other changes in the relevant code since 3.7, right? It > depends on if Ned's okay with it or not. :) I'm still doing further bug fixes and cleanup in the master branch: https:

Re: [Python-Dev] [PEP 576/580] Comparing PEP 576 and 580

2018-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > We could proceed by consensus: the PEP author publicly proposes a PEP > delegate, and if no core developer opposes, that person is officially > accepted as delegate. I think this is too decentralized. I think there should be enthusiasm for the delegate, say two "secon