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Thu Apr 27 04:39:34 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064458.html

On 4/26/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 06:49, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > OK, forget it. I'll face the pitchforks.
> >
> > I'm disappointed though -- it sounds like we can never change
> > anything about Python any more because it will upset the oldtimers.
>
> I'm not averse to changing this - just not to changing it on short
> notice for 2.5 and causing me pain from having to cut new releases to
> fix some breakage in the stdlib caused by this <wink>

I wasn't proposing it for 2.5 (for this very reason) -- AFAICT most
responses were again st this for 2.6 or 2.7.

Hopefully you're okay with Thomas's patch going into 2.5a3 -- it
*warns* about directories without __init__.py that otherwise match the
requested name.

--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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