Leif Walsh wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This strikes me as a gratuitous API change of the kind Guido was >> > warning about in his recent post: "Don't change your APIs incompatibly >> > when porting to Py3k" >> >> This seems compelling to me. And as Glyph mentioned, the testing APIs >> are the most critical ones to keep working when moving from 2 to 3. > > It seems as though this declaration, in this case, is in direct > conflict with the overarching theme of "one obvious way to do things". > That statement, of course, is the reason so many things are being > changed in the move to 3k already, and I don't see why this shouldn't > be one of them (particularly, because it's so easy to account for this > in 2to3). As one is a global statement, and the other is fairly > local, I vote for the change. > As Guido(?) pointed out, this would be acceptable because it's simply different spellings of the same way.
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