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[python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

Alexandre Vassalotti alexandre at peadrop.com
Fri Aug 7 03:16:32 CEST 2009 
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Georg Brandl<g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>
>> A data corruption issue has been discovered in the C IO lib in Python
>> 3.1 (http://bugs.python.org/issue6629). I've applied a fix, and I wonder
>> whether we should make a release quickly to minimize the probability of
>> users hitting the problem?
>> (Georg tells me Benjamin is on holiday, however)
>
> FWIW, I also think we should make a new micro release right now.  We can't
> be seen to take data corruption issues with the most basic file operations
> lightly, especially in Python 3; otherwise, people will think we still don't
> consider it ready for use.

+1 for a micro release.

-- Alexandre
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