Antoine Pitrou wrote:
<glyph <at> divmod.com> writes:
This is a false dichotomy; for core developers, the list needs to be
exhaustive. Everything that can change needs to be described as either
compatible or incompatible.
How do you enumerate "everything that can change"? It does not look like a
finite set to me (but perhaps I'm wrong); and certainly not like a set of a size
reasonable enough to be enumerated in a human-readable way :)
And this is why expressing a finite list of things we guarantee won't
change is a virtually impossible task - unless one of you is
volunteering to write an official spec for Python and its libraries...
:-) (Something that would not be bad IMO - just a long and difficult
task, *especially* if you include the library along with language
semantics and APIs).
Michael
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