On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:35, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2010, at 01:09 PM, Michael Foord wrote: > >>PEP 291 is very old and should probably be retired. I don't think anyone is >>maintaining standard libraries in py3k that are also compatible with Python >>2.anything. (At least not in a single codebase.) > > I agree. Same here; I have purposefully ignored compatibility requirements because I always found those promises to be extremely annoying and somewhat painful to enforce. > I think we should change the status of PEP 291 to Final, and add a > few words to make it clear it applies only to Python 2. Since Neal owns the > PEP, he should get first crack at doing the update, but I volunteer to make > those changes if he declines (or does not respond). > I will channel Neal: "I decline and/or do not want to respond". =) > We may eventually need a similar document for Python 3, but it should be a new > PEP. I hope not.
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