Marzia, I don't want to seem disagreeable, unappreciative, or anything like that. But I really have to agree with Ben on this one.
It seems to me that this change introduces a bug. I've been using python for 8 years now, and I can't think of any reason for a has_key method to take only one argument (its parameter list is always (self, key_name)). That's a fairly core part of the language. If you're going to introduce a new method that does something vaguely similar, but changes things significantly like this, IMHO, you should really give it a different name. Then again, you do have Guido on hand, and his whim certainly trumps anything anyone else might say. Maybe he's already vetted this decision, and I need to just shut up and mind my own business. Thank you for the help and support you're providing, James On Nov 17, 6:10 pm, Marzia Niccolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > It's certainly not our desire to introduce any changes in the App Engine > library that would break our users app, but from time to time some parts of > the apis and libraries will be modified to fix issues/enhance features. > > When these fixes happen, it's always possible that this will break a certain > subset of applications who are implicitly or incorrectly assuming certain > features of the API. Of course, we'd like to avoid this when possible, but > sometimes it's difficult to anticipate how some of these changes can affect > certain applications. > > We are certainly working on finding the right balance, and hope that as we > continue development with App Engine these kind of things will happen less > often. > > -Marzia > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
