On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016, at 04:44, Victor Stinner wrote: >> 2016-09-22 8:02 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>: >> > Just dump the compat macros in Python 4.0 I think. >> >> Please don't. Python 3 was so painful because we decided to make >> millions of tiny backward incompatible changes. To have a smooth >> Python 4.0 release, we should only remove things which were already >> deprecated since at least 2 cycles, and well documented as deprecated. > > I'm being flippant here because of the triviality of the change. Anyone > using Py_VA_COPY or Py_MEMCPY can fix their code in a backwards and > forwards compatible manner in 7 seconds with a sed command.
In fact, this kind of thing would be perfect for Python 4.0 - it's technically backward incompatible (thus justifying the 4.0 number), but removes only things that have been deprecated for some time, and have simple and direct translations. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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
