Alex Willmer

Are you still using chopsticks, and if so would you like a PR to improve pencode performance? I been experimenting, to improve the speed of dumping and loading. I've arrived...

Sample report: https://coveralls.io/github/moreati/django-u2f

module_utils: Consolidate set_owner_if_different & set_group_if_different

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##### SUMMARY This merges implementations of `AnsibleModule.set_owner_if_different()` & `AnsibleModule.set_group_if_different()` into a single method. The benefits are - reduction in code duplication - makes possible halving the number of calls to...

copy: copy: Reduce calls to stat() by 50% in chown_recursive

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##### SUMMARY This reduces the number of times `lstat()` or `chown()` are called by the copy module. Reductions come from - combining loops for owner and group, thus not looping...

Modules and script hard code /usr/bin/python in hashbang

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A number of modules, and scripts in the test suite start with ``` #!/usr/bin/python ``` In general it is better to use ``` #!/usr/bin/env python ``` because that allows execution...

Experimental: mitogen: Remove minification of Python source code

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Done on the basis that sending a few more bytes of the network is quicker than tokenizing and untokeninzing the modules.

macOS: [__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.

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Seen on macOS 10.15 builds with Ansible 2.10 and Ansible 3; after configuring ```ini [defaults] force_valid_group_names = ignore ``` ``` PLAY [integration/ssh/variables.yml] ******************************************* TASK [ansible_ssh_user _raw_params=ANSIBLE_ANY_ERRORS_FATAL=false ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen_linear ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="" ansible -m...

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PR purely to trigger CI, don't merge from here

Python 3.9 + macOS + Ansible tests fail, e.g. https://dev.azure.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/_build/results?buildId=281&view=results ``` PLAY [integration/become/su_password.yml] ************************************** TASK [Ensure su password absent but required. _raw_params=whoami] ************** fatal: [target]: FAILED! => msg: 'error occurred...