On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:47 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > But you could argue that "Special cases aren't special enough to break > the > > rules" and that's what we are proposing here by claiming Python 2.7 is a > > special case and thus we should accept a patch that is not a one-liner > > change to gain some performance in a bugfix release. > > One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this > retort: "Although practicality beats purity," but I won't. :-) > Because Raymond already said that. =) And you explicitly made the point I was trying to implicitly make: in this instance there is no clear argument for or against that is going to make this an obvious decision based on PEP 20.
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