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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:47 AM Skip Montanaro <<a href="mailto:skip.montanaro@gmail.com">skip.montanaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> But you could argue that "Special cases aren't special enough to break the<br>
> rules" and that's what we are proposing here by claiming Python 2.7 is a<br>
> special case and thus we should accept a patch that is not a one-liner<br>
> change to gain some performance in a bugfix release.<br>
<br>
One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this<br>
retort: "Although practicality beats purity," but I won't. :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because Raymond already said that. =) And you explicitly made the point I was trying to implicitly make: in this instance there is no clear argument for or against that is going to make this an obvious decision based on PEP 20.</div></div></div>
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