Tom Mueller wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> It's possible (likely/hopeful) that the small number of us on the IPS 
>> team will not be the only people who ever right a front-end for our 
>> IPS code. So, in order to be able to change the number of arguments 
>> that Image.inventory (for example) uses, we either have to keep that 
>> function private (as this API does) or be prepared to notify everyone 
>> who's building a front-end for our code that this function which they 
>> might or might not be using is changing its interface. I think our 
>> experience over the last 5 months demonstrates how well that works.
> Python provides several ways to preserve compatibility of interfaces.  
> We just need to use them.
Please elaborate, I'd certainly improve my own development.

Brock

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