2010/10/15 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>: > After rereading http://bugs.python.org/issue9778 , I'm growing concerned > about an impending ABI freeze before the core devs find time to fix the > 32-bit hash limitation. > ISTM, the use of 64-bit builds is growing in popularity. It was be a bummer > to have a locked-in an effective size limit for dictionaries and sets > because > the API only supports 32-bit hash values. > The thread seems to show agreement that the hash values should be > Py_ssize_t but the chance to fix it will be lost unless core devs get > more time to work on the problem or unless the ABI freeze is deferred.
I think the panic is a bit of an overreaction. PEP 384 has still not been accepted, and I haven't seen a final decision about freezing the ABI in 3.2. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
