On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:31:26 -0500, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Anthony] > > While this is undoubtedly a bug fix, I'm not sure that it should be > > backported - it will break people's code that is "working" now (albeit > > in a faulty way). What do people think? > > I concur -- the balance of risks is towards the patch causing more harm > than good.
I would not backport it to Python 2.3. People have been using it for a long time. I'd be inclined to backport it to Python 2.4, which is still relatively new. If someone has buggy code, an upgrade is going to cause a problem for them at some point. Given how unlikely the risk is -- particularly given that division is the only useful future now -- I'd say the risk is acceptable for Python 2.4.1. (Unlike, say, Python 2.4.2.) Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
