On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 19:31, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just for learning purposes, why was this improvement not included at the > beginning? (I missed the original thread)
Mostly just a matter of caution. It's a lot easier to relax the restrictions later than it is to add restrictions once the feature is in use. And it wasn't obvious at the time that full expression syntax was needed, or that it wouldn't expose some weird corner cases. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KF4BXOP3DDMILN6SFOXB4W5VUBIYS2LD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
