[Resending due to Google Groups getting involved and giving me an error]
On 5/17/2018 2:41 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
My preference is to do nothing. If you end up making "where" a keyword
in Python 3.8, numpy will probably:
* rename their where function to "where_" in 3.8
* add a where_ alias in Python < 3.8.
And then people will have to fix their code in 3.8 anyway. Only instead
of learning a new verbatim syntax, they will just add the familiar
underscore.
I'm not saying this applies to numpy, but one bonus of using \where
would be that existing 3.7 pickles would work in 3.8 (or I think so,
it's all obviously underspecified at this point). With renaming, pickles
would break.
Eric
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