Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

> configure_linux2.python3.2.patch

 It would probably be more future-proof to use "linux*)", not "linux3)" in the case expression.

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

YAGNI. Nobody has needed sys.build_platform yet. (And no, sys.platform isn't it, since that's been fixed at linux2 approximately forever). Why do ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

> Sure, you can compile and run Python on both versions of Linux, but
 > what if your application uses features that are only present in Linux
 >  ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

M.A., your comments do not make sense in the context of Linux. It does not actually require porting -- Linux 2.6.39 to Linux 3.0 is no more disrup ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

> Well, except maybe if you plan to write applications working only on Python >= 2.7.3? ... this version is not released yet.

 No, of course I d ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

> I will backport the fix to 2.7 and 3.2.

 Uh, wait, so does that mean you're *not* going to do the compatibility-preserving thing and force sys ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #12326/Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2': (link)

Oh wow, so it depends on the *build* time major version? That's really not useful at all for linux 2.x and 3.x; there is nothing useful anyone can ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #2650/re.escape should not escape underscore: (link)

Right you are, it seems that python's regexp implementation is terribly slow when doing replacements with a substitution in them. (fixing the brok ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #2650/re.escape should not escape underscore: (link)

Show your speed test? Looks 2.5x faster to me. But I'm running this on python 2.6, so I guess it's possible that the re module's speed was decimat ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #2650/re.escape should not escape underscore: (link)

I just ran into the impl of escape after being surprised that '/' was being escaped, and then was completely amazed that it wasn't just implemente ...

Commit by foom on roundup :: #5154/OSX broken poll testing doesn't work: (link)

The reason it's a problem is because a "device" is everything other than a socket, pipe, slave-side of tty, or file. That is, /dev/null, /dev/zero ...