http://cia.vc/stats/author/foom11 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' > configure_linux2.python3.2.patch It would probably be more future-proof to use "linux*)", not "linux3)" in the case expression. http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313770956 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313767761 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' > 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 > ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313721384 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313713956 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' > 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313695924 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' > 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1313636718 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #12326 roundup foom Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2' 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue12326 1312558980 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #2650 roundup foom re.escape should not escape underscore Right you are, it seems that python's regexp implementation is terribly slow when doing replacements with a substitution in them. (fixing the brok ... http://bugs.python.org/issue2650 1294938723 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #2650 roundup foom re.escape should not escape underscore 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue2650 1294934943 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #2650 roundup foom re.escape should not escape underscore 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue2650 1294457140 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #5154 roundup foom OSX broken poll testing doesn't work 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 ... http://bugs.python.org/issue5154 1280434647