2010/11/8 James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net>: > On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:42 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: >> Except for making releases that start backporting Python 3 features >> and breaking backwards compatibility gradually (which may or may not >> be a good idea) I don't see the point. There isn't much to do when it >> comes to improving the language, and there is a moratorium anyway. >> Improvements in the standard library can be more easily done in >> external libraries anyway, and then you can release the improved >> libraries for everything from Python 2.4 and forwards if you like. >> >> So it can be done, but the question is "Why?" > > To keep the batteries included?
But they'll only be included in > 2.7, which won't be used much, which defeats the purpose of including those batteries. -- Lennart Regebro, Colliberty: http://www.colliberty.com/ Telephone: +48 691 268 328 _______________________________________________ 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
