Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> The process of having warnings at least ensures that I can *discover* >> whether my programs depend on some behavior that has changed - rather than >> having something that used to work and now doesn't. > > So you would agree to the change if a warning was generated at run-time? > > Notice that there is already a warning there: the documentation clearly > states that the behavior has changed, and, of course, Misc/NEWS lists > it as changed behavior.
As a sidenote, this item should be included in the 2.6 "What's new"'s "porting" section. Perhaps it would be a good "policy" to automatically list potentially breaking fixes there instead of rolling off that task to Andrew. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
