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Do we really want to change an undocumented-but-effectively-public API in a late-in-the-release-cycle third dot release? It caused, ZODB's tests to fail, for instance. While the docstring said, "Don't use the 'int', 'default', and 'maxwidth' arguments", their names were not intrinsically private. In particular, passing in the 'int' argument was a strategy for generating compatible long values when straddling Python 2.x / Python 3.x. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKwlXAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ60DQCgzlO8mHMXQ0vsHNpS9GKwjpmD G6oAoMIjtrKkGTlFj0b9Tfdj5BCu1rYS =GxuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
