On 4 May 2017 at 04:15, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > My allergies have hit me hard so I'm not thinking at full capacity, but did > we ever decide if supporting os.PathLike in the stdlib was viewed as an > enhancement or bugfix? Specifically I'm thinking of > https://bugs.python.org/issue30218 for adding support to > shutil.unpack_archive() and whether it should be backported to 3.6.
I'd treat it as an enhancement, similar to adding native context management support to various APIs. Otherwise, as Terry pointed out, we're setting folks up for cases where testing on the latest maintenance release seems fine, but their app breaks when deployed on a slightly older version. It's one thing for that to happen when the app is encountering a genuine standard library bug, but something else entirely when they're instead inadvertently relying on an enhancement that we could have deferred to the next feature release. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
