On 01/12/2013 22:50, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 12/01/2013 02:06 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I don't remember him [jmf] ever having a valid point, so FTR can we
have a reference please. I do remember Steven D'Aprano
showing that there was a regression which I flagged up here
http://bugs.python.org/issue16061. It was fixed by Serhiy
Storchaka, who appears to have forgotten more about Python than I'll
ever know, grrr!!! :)
The initial complaint came, unsurprisingly, from jmf. But don't worry
much, even a stopped clock has a better track record... it's at least
right twice a day. ;)
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I had to chuckle, "initial complaint" indeed!!! He first started
complaining in August 2012 in this thread
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-August/628650.html.
Then he continued in September 2012 in this thread
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-September/631613.html, which
lead to issue 16061. He's been continuing to moan on and off ever
since, but funnily enough has *NEVER* produced a single shred of
evidence to back his claims. We'll have to wait until the cows come
home before he does.
Contrast that to the Victor Stinner statement here
http://bugs.python.org/issue16061#msg171413 "Python 3.3 is 2x faster
than Python 3.2 to replace a character with another if the string only
contains the character 3 times. This is not acceptable, Python 3.3 must
be as slow as Python 3.2!" Thinking about that I really do want the
Python 2 code back. Apart from the PEP 393 implementation being faster,
using less memory and being correct, it has nothing to offer. Now what
Python sketch does that remind me of? :)
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