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Sun Dec 28 11:47:46 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/084620.html

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 16:26 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
>> If we're going to end up with two functions anyway, why mess with the
>> one which is already there and in use for real programs?
> 
> Well, agreed.
> I was just hoping we could get away with "fixing" the existing function
> and voilà :)

I'm all for breaking backwards compatibility when it allows some genuine
improvements that would otherwise be impossible, but in this particular
case a little API bloat seems like the least of the available evils :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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