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[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk

[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk [Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunkEric Smith eric+python-dev at trueblade.com
Fri Feb 22 19:14:51 CET 2008
Robert Brewer wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> I thought the whole point of 3.0 was a recognition that all that
>> doubling-up was a bad thing and to be rid of it.  Why make the
>> situation worse?  ISTM that we need two versions of oct() like
>> we need a hole in the head.  Heck, there's potentially a case to be
>> made that we don't need oct() at all.  IIRC, unix permissions like
>> 0666 were the only use case that surfaced.
> 
> Postgres bytea coercion is a frequent use case for oct() in my world.
> But I agree we don't need two versions.

Unless you're trying to write code to work with both 2.6 and 3.0.
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