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Fri Jan 20 22:18:20 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059967.html

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:43 +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
>> I don't believe this belongs in 2.4, since it can, actually, break code.
>> Code that depends on the current situation, _TestCase__attributename.
>> Fragile code, to be sure, but still. If there were a compelling reason to
>> backport, I guess it could be hacked to work right-ish, but subclassing
>> TestCase in this way, while convenient, isn't important enough to warrant
>> this (IMHO).
> 
> Exactly right.

You're right. Next time I'm going to decide in favor of not backporting.
I reverted both checkins, this and the urlparse one.

For 2.5, this would be a good opportunity to add additional schemes
to urlparse. Candidates?

Georg

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