Emma Smith

Check permissions of important files before starting the installer

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This was prompted by https://self-hosted.getsentry.net/organizations/self-hosted/issues/235/?project=3&query=is%3Aunresolved&referrer=issue-stream, but I believe that we have seen this before with other errors. I think we should probably start collecting files we know we should check...

Deprecate type comment support?

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I've kicked off a [discussion on typing-sig](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/66JDHQ2I3U3CPUIYA43W7SPEJLLPUETG/), as some of you have already seen, to talk about deprecating and eventually removing type comments. Currently, the ast module takes `type_comments=True` to...

Benchmark stdlib compression code

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At PyConUS, I was chatting with @gpshead about adding compression benchmarks. While a lot of the "heavy lifting" of compression happens in the libraries CPython binds (zlib, liblzma, etc.), the...