On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, George Yoshida wrote: > uuid.py says in its docstring: > This module works with Python 2.3 or higher. > > And my question is: > Do we plan to make it 2.3 compatible in future releases? > > If so, uuid needs to be listed in PEP 291. > Otherwise, the comment is misleading.
The comment isn't misleading, because the module actually does work with Python 2.3. It would only become misleading if it were later changed to break compatibility with Python 2.3 without updating the comment. I intentionally avoided breaking compatibility with Python 2.3 so that there would be just one current version of uuid.py, both in the svn repository and available for use with existing installations of Python, since Python 2.3 is so widely deployed right now. Anyway, it looks like someone has added this module to the list of backward-compatible modules in PEP 291. Regarding whether we want it to be on that list (i.e. whether or not this backward-compatibility should be retained as Python moves forward), i'm happy to have it either way. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ 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
