On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 15:39, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Of course you could have. You could have added a version of your code > that uses capsules (just as you are probably doing now).
No I'm not. > Right - and that's why the deprecation period is not about supporting > multiple versions, but to reduce the need for people to adjust their > code on a quick notice. I think we need to adjust PEP 5 then. We can't keep on breaking backwards compatibility like this. People are already freaked out about Python 2 to Python 3, and the argument is often used against Python that it's not a language to be used in enterprise situations because Python keeps on breaking backwards compatibility. Up until 3.2 that statement was not actually true. Python 2.x was very backwards compatible. The next time somebody tells me that Python isn't stable and breaks backwards compatibility all the time, and says that's why you should use Java, what can I now say? OK, it's just the C-API, but that excuse isn't going to fly... //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
