[Python-Dev] Python 3.6.0a1 is now available

2016-05-17 Thread Ned Deily
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release team, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0a1. 3.6.0a1 is the first of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.6, the next major release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.6 remains under heavy devel

Re: [Python-Dev] Python2.7.11+ as in Debian testing and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS crashes with segfault

2016-05-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 17 May 2016 at 08:15 Dr. Ján Jockusch wrote: > Hello Python Developers, > > I would like to draw your attention to a segmentation fault bug which > concerns the packaged versions of Python 2.7.11 as seen in Ubuntu's > latest 16.04 release and in Debian testing. > > > I have reported this

[Python-Dev] Python2.7.11+ as in Debian testing and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS crashes with segfault

2016-05-17 Thread Dr . Ján Jockusch
Hello Python Developers, I would like to draw your attention to a segmentation fault bug which concerns the packaged versions of Python 2.7.11 as seen in Ubuntu's latest 16.04 release and in Debian testing. I have reported this bug in Ubuntu's tracker here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so

Re: [Python-Dev] Speeding up CPython 5-10%

2016-05-17 Thread zreed
In the project https://github.com/zachariahreed/byteasm I mentioned on the list earlier this month, I have a pass that to computes stack usage for a given sequence of bytecodes. It seems to be a fair bit more agressive than cpython. Maybe it's more generally useful. It's pure python rather than C t