Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a) > instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib > and probably a few hundred places in other code.
But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to port to Py3k? _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1717> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
