[Python-Dev] New policies for the Derby -- please read!

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hastings
1) New policy for what can and cannot be converted during the Derby First, let me apologize for only figuring this out now. The Derby has been a learning process, discovering things that Argument Clinic didn't handle. And there were a lot of funny edge cases that we weren't going to

Re: [Python-Dev] New policies for the Derby -- please read!

2014-01-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 25 January 2014 22:19, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: 1) New policy for what can and cannot be converted during the Derby The new policy for conversion work for Python 3.4: We may only convert functions that have signatures that we can represent 100% accurately in an

Re: [Python-Dev] New policies for the Derby -- please read!

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hastings
On 01/25/2014 07:26 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: However, you've indicated that adding varargs support is going to take you quite a bit of work, so postponing it is an option definitely worth considering at this point in the release cycle. It's worth considering. I'm estimating it's about 1.5

Re: [Python-Dev] New policies for the Derby -- please read!

2014-01-25 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/25/2014 10:37 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: On 01/25/2014 07:26 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: However, you've indicated that adding varargs support is going to take you quite a bit of work, so postponing it is an option definitely worth considering at this point in the release cycle. It's worth