Re: [Python-Dev] pep8ity __future__

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote: I don't see it the same way; this is a terribly unimportant API, so let's not mess with it. threading.py is worth fixing (a) because it's so popular, and (b) because some folks insisted that the new multiprocessing module have an API that is as similar as possible to threa

Re: [Python-Dev] pep8ity __future__

2008-06-10 Thread Guido van Rossum
I don't see it the same way; this is a terribly unimportant API, so let's not mess with it. threading.py is worth fixing (a) because it's so popular, and (b) because some folks insisted that the new multiprocessing module have an API that is as similar as possible to threading. IOW The general mora

[Python-Dev] pep8ity __future__

2008-06-07 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, That's just a flaming-sword thread but I want to mention it nonetheless :-) Basically I propose getting rid of __future__._Feature.getMandatoryRelease() in favour of __future__._Feature.mandatory. That's backwards compatibile and much more pythonic. Getters/Setters are considered unpythonic