Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 16:26 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >> If we're going to end up with two functions anyway, why mess with the >> one which is already there and in use for real programs? > > Well, agreed. > I was just hoping we could get away with "fixing" the existing function > and voilà :)
I'm all for breaking backwards compatibility when it allows some genuine improvements that would otherwise be impossible, but in this particular case a little API bloat seems like the least of the available evils :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
