On Feb 28, 2012 7:14 PM, <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: >> >> Why is readding u'' a feature and not a bug? > > > There is a really simple litmus test for whether something is a bug: > does it deviate from the specification? > > In this case, the specification is the grammar, and the implementation > certainly doesn't deviate from it. So it can't be a bug. I don't think anyone can assert that the specification itself is immune to having "bugs". > > Regards, > Martin > > P.S. Before anybody over-interprets this criterion: there is certain > "implicit behavior" assumed in Python that may not actually be documented, > such as "the interpreter will not core dump", and "the source code will > compile with any standard C compiler". Deviation from these implicit > assumption is also a bug. However, they don't apply here. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ironfroggy%40gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120229/3ed36563/attachment.html>
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