[issue20962] Rather modest chunk size in gzip.GzipFile

lissacoffey added the comment: I measured both the total time of the run, the time to process each input records, and time to execute just the seek() call for each record. The bulk of the per-record time was in the call to seek(), so by reducing that time, I sped up my run-times significantly

[issue6792] Distutils-based installer does not detect 64bit versions of Python

lissacoffey added the comment: This bug is a really annoying one, any chance it will be fixed in 2.7? It's really a matter when you want to deploy a program using distutils (my case), because you cannot really require your clients to edit the registry themselves :/ Thanks

[issue19846] Python 3 raises Unicode errors with the C locale

lissacoffey added the comment: Using an environment variable is not the holy grail for this. On writing a non-single-user application you can't expect the user to set extra environment variables. If compatibility is the only reason in my opinion it would be much better to include some

[issue7980] time.strptime not thread safe

lissacoffey added the comment: On the other hand, the way imports are handled in 3.3 and later is a bit different, and if I run the unit test (which does still fail for me on 2.7 tip) on 3.3 and 3.4 tip it passes. Thanks Lisa - python expert mysite: http://www.followthesteps.net/sky-contact

[issue14621] Hash function is not randomized properly

lissacoffey added the comment: How about Python grows a additional btree implementation in its collections module? I know that it's not going to fix existing code. However in the long run it's the best safeguard against hash collision attacks. I'm thinking about a simple, self