Re: [Python-Dev] Use of Cython

> On 5 Aug 2018, at 03:15, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 5 August 2018 at 00:46, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Antoine Pitrou schrieb am 04.08.2018 um 15:57: >>> Actually, I think testing the C API is precisely the kind of area where >>> you don't want to involve a third-party, especially not a moving

Re: [Python-Dev] Use of Cython

On 5 August 2018 at 18:06, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > I’m not sure if I understand this, ctypes and cffi are used to access C APIs > without writing C code including the CPython API (see for example > ). > > The code code belo

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

On 03/08/2018 03:22, Larry Hastings wrote: 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

[Python-Dev] AIX and python tests

As I have time, I'll dig into these. I have a couple of PR already 'out there', which I hope someone will be looking at when/as he/she/they have time. My time will also be intermittent. My next test - and I hope not too difficult - would be the test_utf8. The test: FAIL: test_cmd_line (test

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

On 2018-08-05 19:57, Michael wrote: On 03/08/2018 03:22, Larry Hastings wrote: 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/is

[Python-Dev] The curious case of 255 function arguments

Hello Python Gurus, TL;DR: 3.7 released functions having greater than 255 arguments. Despite explicit checks for this in 2.x, no such limit is actually imposed -- why? In the 3.7 release notes "Other Language Changes" section ( https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/3.7.html#other-language-changes