haypo

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1. 1.▲
   by haypo 9y ago

   While there is no public announcement from the PSF yet, I sent an email to the python-dev mailing list at least to announce the issue but also try to discuss how to mitigate/prevent it. https://mail.python.org/pipermail
2. 2.▲
   by haypo 11y ago

   No, a PEP was required because there was a lot of discussion on the API, and also non trivial choices on the implementation (pure C? pure Python? C+Python?). To have an idea of the amount of discussion, read the "Rejected ideas" o
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   by haypo 12y ago

   "As an ex Perl guy (well I still use it sometimes), I find append and extend an endless source of confusion in Python. Especially as strings do the opposite of what I expect, and get treated as character arrays with extend (or was it a
4. 4.▲
   by haypo 13y ago

   tracemalloc is the first user of the PEP 445 (malloc API), but I wrote another toy: https://bitbucket.org/haypo/pyfailmalloc "Debug tool for Python injecting memory allocation faults to simulate a low memory syste
5. 5.▲
   by haypo 13y ago

   I started the development of tracemalloc at Wyplay, but I rewrote all the code for the version included in Python 3.4: complelty different API, you get different data, new implementation, etc. The old code: https://github.com&#x2