Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Is it okay to change a public parameter name without deprecation process?
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Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment:
It's a formal parameter name, in general passed by position rather than
keyword. Anyway, it seems a bit late to change it back now.
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follower bugs.python@rancidbacon.com added the comment:
I don't think it would be unreasonable to add the old name back in temporarily
and use whichever parameter is supplied--this change has obviously broken code
in the process.
But for future situations I think changes like this
New submission from follower bugs.python@rancidbacon.com:
The following change broke pre-existing code that used strm as the parameter
name (as documented
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/logging.html#streamhandler):
Roundup Robot devnull@devnull added the comment:
New changeset 6d56d2c63a04 by Vinay Sajip in branch '2.7':
Fixes issue #11476: StreamHandler parameter name change documented.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6d56d2c63a04
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Changes by Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk:
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resolution: - fixed
status: open - closed
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