Message 205014 - Python tracker

Message205014

Author	pitrou
Recipients	BreamoreBoy, ajaksu2, benjamin.peterson, dcjim, elachuni, gvanrossum, jon, kristjan.jonsson, mark.dickinson, pitrou, qelan, tseaver, vdupras, vstinner
Date	2013-12-02.14:30:24
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In-reply-to	<1385993513.13.0.36769317594.issue7105@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> Anyway, it's not for me to decide. We have currently three options: > a) my first patch, which is a duplication of the 3.x work but is > non-trivial and could bring stability issues > b) my second patch, which will increase memory use, but to no more > than previous versions of python used while iterating > c) do nothing and have iterations over weak dicts randomly break when > an underlying cycle is unraveled during iteration. Either a) or c), for me. We shouldn't change semantics in bugfix releases.

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> Anyway, it's not for me to decide.  We have currently three options:
> a) my first patch, which is a duplication of the 3.x work but is
> non-trivial and could bring stability issues
> b) my second patch, which will increase memory use, but to no more
> than previous versions of python used while iterating
> c) do nothing and have iterations over weak dicts randomly break when
> an underlying cycle is unraveled during iteration.

Either a) or c), for me. We shouldn't change semantics in bugfix
releases.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-12-02 14:30:24	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, dcjim, tseaver, mark.dickinson, kristjan.jonsson, vstinner, ajaksu2, jon, benjamin.peterson, vdupras, elachuni, BreamoreBoy, qelan
2013-12-02 14:30:24	pitrou	link	issue7105 messages
2013-12-02 14:30:24	pitrou	create