Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-13 Thread Steve Dower
“So that 3.4 dies in good health?” More like getting all its evil deeds off its chest on the death bed, I think :) Top-posted from my Windows 10 phone From: Antoine Pitrou Sent: Monday, 13 August 2018 2:59 To: Larry Hastings; python-committers; Python-Dev Subject: Re: [python-committers]

Re: [Python-Dev] Can we split PEP 489 (extension module init) ?

2018-08-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 00:50, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Petr Viktorin schrieb am 10.08.2018 um 13:48: > > Would this be better than a flag + raising an error on init? > > Ok, I've implemented this in Cython for now, to finally move the PEP-489 > support forward. The somewhat annoying drawback is

Re: [Python-Dev] A Subtle Bug in Class Initializations

2018-08-13 Thread Erik Bray
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 6:49 PM Steve Dower wrote: > > On 10Aug2018 0354, Erik Bray wrote: > > Thanks! I'm not sure what you mean by "on other OS's" though. Do you > > mean other OS's that happen to use Windows-style PE/COFF binaries? > > Because other than Windows I'm not sure what we care

Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 13/08/2018 à 11:49, Larry Hastings a écrit : > > > We of the core dev community commit to supporting Python releases for > five years.  Releases get eighteen months of active bug fixes, followed > by three and a half years of security fixes.  Python 3.4 turns 5 next > March--at which point

[Python-Dev] Winding down 3.4

2018-08-13 Thread Larry Hastings
We of the core dev community commit to supporting Python releases for five years.  Releases get eighteen months of active bug fixes, followed by three and a half years of security fixes.  Python 3.4 turns 5 next March--at which point we'll stop supporting it, and I'll retire as 3.4 release