Re: Version numbers in Standard Library

2019-03-03 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 01/03/2019 16:35, Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] via Python-list wrote: > Dear Python List, > > A question. I help maintain a Python stack for users in my division here > at NASA and one user asked about updating the re module to 2.4. I > believe because he re

Re: Version numbers in Standard Library

2019-03-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
The point of the "Changed in version ..." or "New in version ..." bits in the documentation is to alert readers who maintain software which needs to remain backward compatible with older versions of Python. If you maintain a package which you support for Python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7, you'll probab

Version numbers in Standard Library

2019-03-01 Thread Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] via Python-list
Dear Python List, A question. I help maintain a Python stack for users in my division here at NASA and one user asked about updating the re module to 2.4. I believe because he read the docs: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/re.html where you see lines like "New in version 2.4" and he also