Message 285880 - Python tracker

Message285880

Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2017-01-20.06:04:19
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In-reply-to	<1484865298.19.0.384278619782.issue29327@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> While Python 3.5 doesn't crash, I consider that it has also the bug. So I > added Python 3.5 in Versions. The patch uses new feature of 3.6 -- supporting positional-only parameters in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() (see issue26282). Since passing an iterable as a keyword argument never worked, it is safe to make the first parameter positional-only. Actually I think that argument parsing code of sorted() and list.sort() can be simplified, but this is separate issue. I tried to make the bugfix patch simple.

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> While Python 3.5 doesn't crash, I consider that it has also the bug. So I
> added Python 3.5 in Versions.

The patch uses new feature of 3.6 -- supporting positional-only parameters in 
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()  (see issue26282). Since passing an iterable as 
a keyword argument never worked, it is safe to make the first parameter 
positional-only.

Actually I think that argument parsing code of sorted() and list.sort() can be 
simplified, but this is separate issue. I tried to make the bugfix patch simple.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-01-20 06:04:20	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, vstinner
2017-01-20 06:04:20	serhiy.storchaka	link	issue29327 messages
2017-01-20 06:04:19	serhiy.storchaka	create