On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eli Bendersky wrote (in > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116393.html ): > >> A package will be marked provisional by including the >> following paragraph as a note at the top of its >> documentation page: > > I really would like some marker available from within Python > itself. > > Use cases: > > (1) During development, the documentation I normally read > first is whatever results from import module; help(module), > or possibly dir(module). > > (2) At BigCorp, there were scheduled times to move as much > as possible to the current (or current-1) version. > Regardless of policy, full regression test suites don't > generally exist. If Python were viewed as part of the > infrastructure (rather than as part of a specific > application), or if I were responsible for maintaining an > internal application built on python, that would be the time > to upgrade python -- and I would want an easy way to figure > out which applications and libraries I should concentrate on > for testing.
+1 on both -eric _______________________________________________ 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
