[Python-Dev] Question for potential python development contributions on Windows

2021-05-19 Thread pjfarley3
The Python Developers Guide specifically states to get VS2017 for developing or enhancing python on a Windows system. Is it still correct to specifically use VS2017 , or is VS2019 also acceptable? I ask this because I know that the *.vcproj files and other build-environment files have chang

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 659: Specializing Adaptive Interpreter

2021-05-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/13/2021 4:18 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: Hi Terry, On 13/05/2021 5:32 am, Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/12/2021 1:40 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: This is an informational PEP about a key part of our plan to improve CPython performance for 3.11 and beyond. As always, comments and suggestions are welc

[Python-Dev] Re: Critique of PEP 657 -- Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks

2021-05-19 Thread Pablo Galindo Salgado
> > Excellent point! Do you know how reliable this is in practice, i.e. > what proportion of bytecode source spans are something you can > successfully pass to ast.parse? If it works it's obviously nicer, but > I can't tell how often it works. E.g. anything including > return/break/continue/yield/a

[Python-Dev] Re: Critique of PEP 657 -- Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks

2021-05-19 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 2:49 PM Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > * It actually doesn't have more advantages. The current solution in the PEP > can do exactly the same as this solution if you allow reparsing when > displaying tracebacks. This is because with the start line, end line, start > offset