Is there any reason to have Future .cancelled, .done, .running as methods? >From my perspective they are really readonly properties.
BTW, is 'cancelled' correct name? Spell-checkers likes only single 'l' form: 'canceled'. On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Brian Quinlan <br...@sweetapp.com> wrote: > > On May 23, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Brian Quinlan <br...@sweetapp.com> >> wrote: >> >>>> Also, you can't fix bugs except by >>>> releasing new versions of Python. Therefore the API must be completely >>>> stable, and the product virtually bugfree before it should be in >>>> stdlib. The best way of ensuring that is to release it as a separate >>>> module on PyPI, and let it stabilize for a couple of years. >>> >>> Yeah but that model isn't likely to work with this package. >>> Cheers, >>> Brian >> >> Forgive my ignorance, but why do you say that that model won't work >> with this package? > > As I said in my last message: > > """Simple modules are unlikely to develop a following because it is too easy > to partially replicate their functionality. urlparse and os.path are very > useful modules but I doubt that they would have been successful on PyPI.""" > > Cheers, > Brian > _______________________________________________ > 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/andrew.svetlov%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
