On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 03:13, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:

> This is not a complete thought yet, but it occurred to me that while we
> have deprecated APIs (which will eventually go away), and provisional APIs
> (which must mature a little before they're declared stable), and stable
> APIs (which everyone can rely on), it might be good to also have something
> like *unstable* APIs, which will continually change without ever going away
> or stabilizing. Examples would be the ast module (since the AST structure
> changes every time the grammar changes) and anything to do with code
> objects and bytecode (since we sometimes think of better ways to execute
> Python).
>

Perhaps "living API" analogous to "living document". Much more positive
connotations ...

Tim Delaney
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