[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 558, the simplest thing I could come up with

2021-08-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Bringing the public record up to date with a brief off-list discussion between Mark, Nathaniel and I: * Mark hasn't convinced me that getting rid of the frame value cache entirely for optimised frames is a good idea, so he's going to write that proposal up as a competing PEP. Once it has been draf

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 467 feedback from the Steering Council

2021-08-14 Thread Brett Cannon
Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Aug 4, 2021, at 07:31, Victor Stinner vstin...@python.org wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 7:54 PM Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: > > I would rather keep `bchr` and lose the `.fromint()` methods. > > I would prefer to only have a bytes.byte(65) method, no bchr() >

[Python-Dev] Re: Making code object APIs unstable

2021-08-14 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
13.08.21 20:24, Guido van Rossum пише: > If these weren't part of the stable ABI, I'd choose (E). But because > they are, I think only (A) or (B) are our options. The problem with (C) > is that if there's code that links to them but doesn't call them (except > in some corner case that the user can