On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 04:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 8 Jan 2014 07:11, "A.M. Kuchling" <a...@amk.ca> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > > Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not > > > worth it; I'm questioning the timing. > > > > Agreed; let's try to avoid far-ranging sets of changes so late in the > > beta cycle. > > > > If we want to send 3.4 back to alpha and implement some form of > > string-formatting changes and Argument Clinic, that would be fine, > > though it might mean Ubuntu and other Linux distros might have to ship > > with 3.3 again because 3.4 wasn't done in time. > > The bytes formatting change is right out. It likely requires the use of > the > 3.3 or 2.7 bytestring formatting code as the basis and should be feasible > to implement and publish as a function in a cross-version PyPI library > before locking in the syntax and semantics for Python 3.5, so I see zero > justification for delaying Python 3.4 on that basis. It's relevant to the > question of encouraging migrations from Python 2 (as current Python > developers are used to having a feature like that available), but is not > especially significant in terms of encouraging *new* development in > Python > 3 (since it's a relatively obscure use case with multiple alternative > approaches available).
A PyPI module is not so great because you'll have to change every formatting operation to use a function from a module rather than the % operator or the format method. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
