Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri May 31 12:43:20 EDT 2019

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On 5/31/2019 6:20 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Fri., 31 May 2019, 6:34 pm Nathaniel Smith, <njs at pobox.com 
> <mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:
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>     I wouldn't mind having a little more breathing room. It's frustrating
>     to miss the train, but these bugs are several decades old so I guess
>     nothing terrible will happen if their fixes get delayed to 3.9.

Agreed.

> And I could put that extra time to good use, as starting to flesh out 
> the proxy implementation showed that we're missing a lot of scaffolding 
> to help make it easier to define new low level mapping types without 
> duplicating a lot of code.
> 
> I'll update the PEP headers accordingly.

I believe some of your suggested doc change is true now, will remain 
true, and improves on the current locals entry.  No PEP approval is 
needed for this much.


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Terry Jan Reedy

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