On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:54, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 10:19 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit : >> (the crowd was rather enthusiastic >> during Steven's lightning talk at PyCon 2010 about argparse). > > Is it a typo or a rhetorical trick? ;) >
Typo. =) I meant 2009. >> Nor do I >> want Python's reputation tarnished, as Collin pointed out, by having >> old modules sitting there in the standard library. > > Python's reputation will certainly get tarnished, however, if > widely-used modules get deprecated and removed. We will already get some > damage with all of the py3k changes. No need to worsen our case, IMO. > I don't think slow deprecations will do that. This happened with md5/sha when we introduced hashlib and the Mercurial guys were the only ones I ever heard complain. > Regards > > Antoine. > > > PS : Perhaps I'm the only one bothered by this, but it would be nice if > people trimmed quoted messages a bit more. Having to scroll 3 pages > before reading the actual reply is tedious. Gmail color-codes so I simply scroll until I no longer see purple. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
