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Fri May 7 02:10:20 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044715.html

On Friday 07 May 2004 12:29 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
 > I have a different POV.  I don't think there is a compelling reason to
 > change this attribute into a set (I doubt it's so time-critical as to
 > make a difference) and given that the attribute isn't flagged as
 > "private" by having a name starting with underscore, I think the
 > change ought to be reverted.

I'd like to suggest that we either document the "right way" to extend the 
information to support new URL schemes, and possibly add a function as the 
way to do that.  Having to update a whole set of lists from outside the 
module seems a poor and error-prone way to do this.

  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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