On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 12/10/2010 4:59 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > >> Like Éric, I'm not sure what the implications of the existing module >> having been released in 2.7 and 3.2 beta are in terms of making such an >> API change. > > I am with Raymond on this: the purpose of betas is so we can test *and* make > changes. No one should base production software on a beta release.
It's also the key difference between betas and release candidates. Completely new features are still out after the first beta, but tweaking the APIs of new-in-this-release features is still possible with sufficient justification. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
