On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:28 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> I'm not being tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic. My question was serious -- >> if there is a moratorium, is there any reason to bother submitting >> patches for functional changes to built-ins? A lot can change between >> now and 2013, and I for one wouldn't bother making a patch that I knew >> wouldn't even be considered for inclusion for four years, and would >> likely need to be re-done even if it was accepted. Guido has said that >> the purpose of the moratorium is to discourage changes to the language. > > I haven't been following the discussion, but I wouldn't expect that > a moratorium on language changes would rule out adding a method to the > set type. > > Regards, > Martin
My understanding is that the moratorium would preclude changes to the builtins. Is that not the case here? Geremy Condra _______________________________________________ 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
