On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 01:20 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 13/01/2014 21:01, Paul Moore wrote: >> >>> >>> I think this should be for 3.5, and should not involve an accelerated >>> release of 3.5 - we should get it into the 3.5 code early and let >>> people thrash out the details during the 3.5 release cycle. >>> >> >> I disagree, it should be on pypi now so people can start trying it out, >> or as others have suggested incorporate it into >> the six module. Surely that'd make the job of getting it into 3.5 far >> easier? >> > > It's a bit harder to put a core feature on PyPI. I'm not even sure how it > would be done. Fortunately, once it is in 3.5 trunk the adventurous can > build their own and try it out that way. > You make it a function that under Python 2 and < 3.5 does what needs to be done and on 3.5 just directly calls the underlying method. People will still have to change their code, but the idea is it becomes a refactoring instead of a change in how the code is structured.
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