On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> With RFC 3986 passing its 6th birthday, and with it being well past >>> its 7th by the time 3.3 comes out, can we finally switch to supporting >>> the current semantics rather than the obsolete behaviour? >> >> We do infact, support RFC 3986, expect for the cases where those >> conflict with the previous RFCs. (IOW, backwards compatible). >> The tests can give you a good picture here. Do you mean, we should >> just do away with backwards compatibility? Or you had anything else >> specifically in mind? > > Backwards compatible with *what* though? > > For the decimal module, we treat deviations from spec as bug fixes and > update accordingly, even if this changes behaviour. > > For URL parsing, the spec has changed (6 years ago!), but we still > don't provide a spec-conformant implementation, even via a flag or new > function.
Can you be specific? What is different between those RFCs? -- --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