On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 11/12/2010 2:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Maybe I've missed something, but is there any reason to add a new >> parameter in a bugfix release? >> (apart from security issues) > > This is a bugfix. We discussed this (with Tim's participation) here last > July/August and pretty well agreed that this was the least obnoxious > solution to a bad situation.
Yep, as Terry said, the current behaviour is irredeemably broken in some situations, but switching it off completely would break other cases. Adding a new optional parameter that defaulted to the 2.7 behaviour was considered the least-bad option out of those available (do nothing, add parameter, change default behaviour, add new API). 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
