I am working on the Python security for years, but I never wrote anything about that. Let's fix this!
I am part of the Python Security Response Team (PSRT): I get emails sent to security@python.org. I try to analyze each report to validate that the bug is …
I am currently at a CPython sprint 2017 at Facebook. We are discussing my idea of writing a new C API for CPython hiding implementation details and replacing macros with function calls.
This article tries to explain why the CPython C API needs to evolve.
This is the third part of my contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 (april, may, june):
Previous reports:
This is the second part of my contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 (april, may, june):
Previous report: My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 (part 1).
Next report: My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 …
This is the first part of my contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 (april, may, june):
Previous report: My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q1.
Next reports …
I spent the last 6 months on working on buildbots: reduce the failure rate, send email notitication on failure, fix random bugs, detect more bugs using warnings, backport fixes to older branches, etc. I decided to fix all buildbots issues: fix all warnings and all unstable tests!
The good news …
This article tells the story of the new CPython test.bisect tool to identify failing tests in the CPython test suite.
I am fixing reference leaks since many years. When the test file contains more than 200 tests and is longer than 5,000 lines …
My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q1 (january, februrary, march):
Previous report: My contributions to CPython during 2016 Q4. Next report: My contributions to CPython during 2017 Q2 (part 1 …
In feburary 2017, CPython from Bitbucket with Mercurial moved to GitHub with Git: read [Python-Dev] CPython is now on GitHub by Brett Cannon.
In 2016, I worked on speed.python.org to automate running benchmarks and make benchmarks more stable. At the end, I had a single command to:
Here is the raw list of the 46 CPython issues I opended between 2016-04-21 and 2017-02-10 to implement my FASTCALL optimization. Most issues created in 2016 are already part of Python 3.6.0, some are already merged into the future Python 3.7, the few remaining issues are still …
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