On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:59:17 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Exposing those flags would > encourage people to do exactly that, and that would be a *really* bad > idea
Making DNS resolution configurable (for example by allowing the user to supply their own resolution function) in the stdlib's network APIs doesn't sound like a really bad idea to me. Of course, a "no_ipv6" flag would scale poorly and would therefore be a bad API. > We really shouldn't make things even worse by making > it easy for developers with broken IPv6 setups to switch off IPv6 > support entirely). I don't think moralist arguments should have a weight when deciding which features we add. If developers want to introduce bugs or limitations in their software they will always be able to do it. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
