[Python-Dev] Python 3.3.7 release schedule and end-of-life

2017-07-15 Thread Ned Deily
Python 3.3 is fast approaching its end-of-life date, 2017-09-29. Per our release policy, that date is five years after the initial release of 3.3, 3.3.0 final on 2012-09-29. Note that 3.3 has been in security-fix only mode since the 2014-03-08 release of 3.3.5. It has been a while since we pr

[Python-Dev] deque implementation question

2017-07-15 Thread Max Moroz
What would be the disadvantage of implementing collections.deque as a circular array (rather than a doubly linked list of blocks)? My naive thinking was that a circular array would maintain the current O(1) append/pop from either side, and would improve index lookup in the middle from O(n) to O(1).

[Python-Dev] Announcing the schedule for 3.4.7

2017-07-15 Thread Larry Hastings
In reply to my proposal of a few days ago, I received two +1s and no other feedback. So I'm going to issue 3.4.7 with relatively-little notice.t Here's the schedule for 3.4.7; it mirrors the schedule for 3.5.4. Saturday, July 22, 2017 - tag 3.4.7 rc1 Sunday, July 23, 2017 - r