> That's not the Python spirit. The spirit is that *if* they support > similar enough functionality the APIs should be named the same, in the > same module, and have the same signature. E.g. the os module is built > on this principle. Many APIs there are optional, but if they exist, > they have a known name and spec. (The posix/nt underlying modules are > implementation details that most users never need to know about.)
Does that mean I can fix the signature issues with socket.gethostname()? http://bugs.python.org/issue1049 Bill _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
