[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] PEP 361: Python 2.6/3.0 release schedule

Tue Mar 18 17:17:54 CET 2008

Barry Warsaw schrieb:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>> On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote:
>>>> Hey Barry,
>>>> Thanks for putting this PEP together. This is really helpful.
>> Hi Travis... thanks!
>>> I didn't see discussion of PEP 3118 and it's features back-ported to
>> Python 2.6. I've already back-ported the new buffer API as an 
>> addition
>> to the old buffer protocol.
>>>> In addition, I've planned to back-port the improvements to the struct
>> module and the addition of the memoryview object (both in PEP 3118).
>>>> If you have questions, we can talk tomorrow.
>> Let's do that. Neal has put together a list of things that he thinks 
> needs to be backported. We should formalize that list (as best we can 
> given we're still in alpha), and add it to the PEP. I think we should 
> also make sure we have open issues in the tracker for each backporting 
> task.
>
I think that
 [issue1971] ctypes exposing the pep 3118 buffer interface
should / could also be backported to 2.6 (once it is merged into py3k).
Thomas