Jeff Long

@marcusmueller Ubuntu 20.04 has 3.16 and has EOL in 2025, so we'd have to drop support.

I still think of `main` as `maint-3.10-dev`, since we don't know if there will every be a 3.11. Non-backported PRs are effectively orphaned on `main` and can potentially cause conflicts.

Sure, 3.16 is fine for now.. And I'm not opposed to dropping 20.04 before LTS expires, since we don't tie our fate to Ubuntu or RHEL or anyone else automatically....

Reproduced. Note that it is just the display that is different than the Gtk version. The values are still evaluated correctly for runtime. I kind of like this way (display...

Reproduced regression.

As a workaround, set the input to use IQ file /dev/zero.

Is testing the main use of this? These functions can't be used with a block that is in a flowgraph, since en/decoders can be stateful. I sort of think we...

How about renaming the functions `test_encode` and `test_decode`. That would imply that this isn't a general purpose function, and it could be supported only in the pybind layer.

Save/restore is a great idea. I wish we had consistancy across the blocks so users would know what to expect when doing a save/restore.

Please look into `ast.literal_eval`. We haven't kept `eval()` completely out of the code, but don't need to add any new ones. `eval()` allows for the execution of arbitary code, making...