Hi, Antoine Pitrou schrieb: > You should try a search in the python-dev archives. It was introduced > recently, and after quite a bit of discussion I think. Just found the discussion. Apparently the reason there are different functions is something Guido wanted.
I guess the best idea is to finish the patch and discuss that one on python-devel then. > Regardless of whether the semantics would be better or not, we can't > change APIs every 2 years, it will make our users furous. Right, but how many people are using Python 3? Regards, Armin _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
