I approved it, but I don't think I spent more than a minute thinking
about it. Since 3.0 is fundamentally incompatible with 2.x, I don't
think it's important to keep a record in the docs about when something
was added during the 2.x era -- future historians can dig that out of
the 2.6 docs if they care.

There just isn't a use case (that I can think of) for trying to write
code that works in 3.0 *and* in some other version earlier than 2.6.
And even for 2.6 vs. 3.0 the best you can do is run 2to3 over the 2.6
sources. So I don't see how someone using 3.0 would be interested in
which 2.x version something was added.

--Guido

On 9/1/07, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2007, at 8:33 AM, georg.brandl wrote:
> > Remove versionadded and versionchanged directives, fold information
> > into text where necessary.
>
> Was this discussed somewhere and I just missed the discussion?
> Removing information from the documentation source is somewhat
> disturbing.
>
> The descriptions should be complete for the current version without
> the added/changed notes, but those are important for anyone dealing
> with multiple versions.  I suspect that won't really change when
> people move to Python 3.0, so I doubt removing these is actually a
> good thing.  (Displaying them could be made optional, though.)
>
>
>    -Fred
>
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