As someone who maintains a debugger that uses private api’s, I’d like to see
some commitment to seeing them not change in micro releases such as 3.11.1 ->
3.11.2. Micro releases should be compatible with other micro releases of the
same major.minor release such as 3.11 so that an extension compi
I’ve found that using mailing list mode to lurk on discuss.python.org works
well. I’ve set up rules on my local mail client to archive what I don’t want in
my inbox; I have 4 rules in place now, though I’m interested in a bit more than
what was typically on python-dev.
Cheers,
John
> On Dec 6
I've written a proof of concept patch to add a hook to PyDict_SetItem at
http://bugs.python.org/issue5654 My motivation is to enable
watchpoints in a python debugger that are called when an attribute or
global changes. I know that this won't cover function locals and
objects with slots (as M
Collin Winter wrote:
Have you measured the impact on performance?
I've tried to test using pystone, but am seeing more differences between
runs than there is between python w/ the patch and w/o when there is no
hook installed. The highest pystone is actually from the binary w/ the
patch, wh
Just want to reply quickly because I'm traveling -- I appreciate the
feedback from Raymond and others. Part of the reason I created an issue
with a proof of concept patch is to get this kind of feedback. I also
agree that this shouldn't go in if it slows things down noticeably.
I will do som
