<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Mar 25, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:</div>
[...]<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">I do note that the PEP seems to have some weasel-words about breaking backward compatibility in the name of security. The phrase "This PEP does <i>not</i> grant Python 2.7 any general exemptions to the usual
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Im pretty sure Nick was just trying to say that the changes made under this PEP still have to be backwards compatible in the sense that APIs cant change their default behavior and such. In other words we cant suddenly flip on hostname checking or anything like that.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then the words should be clarified (maybe by removing 'general'?). This PEP invites interpretation by future generations so it should be as clear as possible on the intent, to avoid scholarly arguments.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido">python.org/~guido</a>)
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