On 3/3/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Martin Maly] > > The Python spec states that the "from __future__ import …" statement can > > only occur at the beginning of the file, preceded only by doc strings, > > comments, empty lines or other future statements. The following code > > snippets, however, don't raise Syntax error in Python 2.4.2. Is it a bug? > > > > I am asking whether in IronPython we should try to match behavior of Python > > compiler, or stick to the language spec. In this case, I believe that we > > should stick to the spec and report a bug in Python compiler. > > Guido bumped into this about a month ago, noting that he thought it > was a bug in current Python trunk that the PEP restrictions _are_ > followed now. I replied that I thought it was a bug in released > Pythons that the PEP restrictions were _not_ followed: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/060247.html > > Doesn't look like Guido responded, so I'll channel him and declare > that he intended to agree with me after all ;-)
It was so obvious that you were right I didn't bother to agree at the time. But yes, I agree. And I swear on a stack of Python 1.5.2 language reference manuals that you didn't have to twist my arm. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
