Stephen Hansen schrieb: > And it'd be so easy to do it in a way which wouldn't be silent... just > throw out a warning, and defer the actual change until the next release. > > Expecting people to keep on top of Misc/NEWS and re-read the > documentation for every function in their code is a tad unreasonable. I > don't personally find it unreasonable for people to ask for a bit more > of an extended migration path when changes that are being implemented > will cause *silent* changes in behavior.
Which is why there is the "Porting" section in the What's New document, which is typically not longer than a page and should list these changes. 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
