-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2016 02:11 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 13.09.2016 19:59, MRAB wrote: >> The recommended way of dealing with features across different >> versions of Python is to check for them and see if they raise >> NameError or whatever, but I wonder if there would be any benefit to >> recording such things somewhere, e.g. sys.features['ordered_args'] >> returns True if arguments are passed in an ordered dict. > > Just to check: do people really that often change between Python > implementations? > > My personal experience with this kind of compatibility is that it is > rarely needed for large and complex programs. That is due to > deployment and testing issues (at least in our environment as we run > multiple Python services on a multitude of servers). *Lots* of library authors have to straddle Python versions: consumers of those libraries only get to pick and choose when their code is at the "leaf" of the dependency tree (the application). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJX2EOfAAoJEPKpaDSJE9HYkokP/j74MGBGt+JjcalETp54yJ5n zgun42oE8c+8rTl2gsnn+E7lipTZ9XW4e+/+XDAOBsb3VK3X344l4Wn1i1pfi9/n 1DXEJkO4rbvIOOI2pcsuVCHTLxcpafvKo0+sjVuXdbuBwWFS1OcSTXGoJ7UKi9yI NtmY16qIYLgNhbxRj5dysnFHtnBD9dnQTxs77QFGnu59nT8i+EI0BRqASMXTNhF3 3IZ13BqIIc0megaaSjfNt3BXaMSHEOpAjhes5ni6OEPPVuDk6XRQf705WcjY2S4H EKaArqJIwWHoLOO4gLiaFAa8x0+Vsl8nfGxgWFZFIPiZ0ALqcZ2YHg0GclUs8J4p eOPuLodc9GqtuyhbPctZLU2EbiGDexGS6GkIa3ESh0/WFaOKB5rt/26szHq/WWXE CGSq7QJssoiKfmdniSY1oa4n/1Q3N1PxZfv54YwnAPGy5SOYspFaWnCwORPRlH9s U2p8X61T5SGFouK3XNv8ZgswpH9bF51JBCJuXl9F1reL+4TpfD/0gHIUQLu34Ot/ 54zxtBB0h+FgnMZ62g+vp04d//0sw/BfsVElkjHi5ptcb+A9IAgjIfOWRDRtSzEx yOQ80dY3BPmknbYecdkYgJhlWke0FT6TOMYA/SVFd6IMol4hxPuDvgfvljRrZeJp Y3ilNxoz72TG5kHfEDbS =Xa3X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
