See PEP 328[1] for details. This feature was introduced in Python 2.5 and
will become mandatory in Python 3.
[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328
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Previously, we weren't clearing the users out of memcached (we just
killed them in the database), so in fact users were not logged out
when we deactivated them for an hour (when the memcached caches would
expire).
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The previous situation was bad for two reasons:
(1) It had a lot of copies of the code, some of them missing pieces:
UserProfile.objects.get(user__email__iexact=foo)
This was in particular going to be inconvenient since we are dropping
the __user part of that.
(2) It didn't take advantage of our memcached caching.
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This is required because our migration is going to go in two phases.
When we do the database migration (on pushing to master), we update
all messages at that point. But prod doesn't know about the new
flags field, so any new messages sent on prod will not have the
read bit set.
When we push to prod, we want to re-run the bit of the migration script
that automatically sets read flags on messages older than the users's
pointer.
(imported from commit 961d33e972eac9ada80089bf1b1269c7fb42d56b)
Luke Faraone
Tim Abbott
Leo Franchi