On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: [Steven] >> Have then been any __future__ features that were added provisionally? > > I can't either, but ISTR hearing that from __future__ import was started > with such an intent. Irrespective, it's hard to import something from > "future" without at least suspecting that you're on the bleeding edge.
No, this was not the intent of __future__. The intent is that a feature is desirable but also backwards incompatible (e.g. introduces a new keyword) so that for 1 (sometimes more) releases we require the users to use the __future__ import. There was never any intent to use __future__ for experimental features. If we want that maybe we could have from __experimental__ import <whatever>. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
