On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote (amongst way too many words): > [...] For example, 2.8 could emit a deprecation > warning for every old-style class that was defined, 2.9 could emit a > deprecation warning for every string constant declared without a 'b' or 'u' > prefix unless the module in question were in "3.x mode" (i.e. no-prefix == > 'u').
This proposal is hopelessly naive. It has been considered seriously from all possible sides before, and there just isn't a way to make this work. Not even with several releases as stepping points. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
