Re: [Python-Dev] Locked-in defect? 32-bit hash values on 64-bit builds

2010-10-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 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. If the ABI is frozen with 3.2, it would still be possible to introduce "wide" hashes - it just

[Python-Dev] Exposing pkguitl's import emulation (was Re: [Python-checkins] r85538 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst)

2010-10-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
I'm a little dubious about exposing these officially. They're mainly a hack to get some parts of the standard library working (e.g. runpy) in the absence of full PEP 302 support in the imp module, not really something we want to encourage anyone else to use (and yes, they should probably have under

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot for AIX

2010-10-17 Thread R. David Murray
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:38:47 +0200, =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBTYWJsw6k=?= wrote: > I finally got the authorization to run some buildbot slaves on our AIX > servers. > > I made some tests with a buildbot script as close as possible to what > you already use. Here is a patch that show the kind of