Re: [Python-Dev] [python-committers] Should I delay 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 by two weeks?

2016-12-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 19.12.2016 06:26, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > Python 3.6.0 final just slipped by two weeks. I scheduled 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 to > ship about a month after 3.6.0 did, to "let the dust settle" around the > release. I expect a flood of adoption of 3.6, and people switching will find > bugs, and mayb

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecate `from __future__ import unicode_literals`?

2016-12-20 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > Please don't get rid of unicode+literals -- I don't even think we should > depreciate it as a recommendation or discourage it. > > Maybe a note or two added as to where issues may arise would be good. > > I've found importing unicode_literal

[Python-Dev] Issue #23903 - stable API is incomplete

2016-12-20 Thread Steve Dower
For those who aren't aware, the stable API (PEP 384) is broken on Windows because the exports from python3.dll have not been kept up to date. Over at http://bugs.python.org/issue23903 we're trying to address this by automatically generating the DLL based on the headers. This has shown that man

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #23903 - stable API is incomplete

2016-12-20 Thread Steve Dower
I should also point out that when 3.6.0 releases, all of these will already be in the stable API for other platforms. I'm not going to take a stance on whether we can break it there between 3.6.0 and 3.6.1, but it may already be too late to remove any. Top-posted from my Windows Phone -Ori