Re: [Python-Dev] Network Security Backport Status

2014-07-01 Thread Guido van Rossum
I have to agree with Antoine -- I don't think there's a shortcut that avoids *someone* actually having to understand the code to the point of being able to recreate the same behavior in the different context (pun not intended) of Python 2. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >

Re: [Python-Dev] Network Security Backport Status

2014-07-01 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 01/07/2014 14:26, Alex Gaynor a écrit : I can do all the work of reviewing each commit, but I need some help from a mercurial expert to automate the cherry-picking/rebasing of every single commit. What do folks think? Does this approach make sense? Anyone willing to help with the mercurial s

Re: [Python-Dev] Network Security Backport Status

2014-07-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 1 Jul 2014 11:28, "Alex Gaynor" wrote: > > I've come up with a new approach, which I believe is most likely to be > successful, but I'll need help to implement it. > > The idea is to find the most recent commit which is a parent of both the > ``2.7`` and ``default`` branches. Then take every si

[Python-Dev] Network Security Backport Status

2014-07-01 Thread Alex Gaynor
Hi all, I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on the status of PEP 466, what's been completed, and what's left to do. First the completed stuff: * hmac.compare_digest * hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac Are both backported, and I've added support to use them in Django, so users should start seeing these ben