On 19/01/2012 17:46, Ethan Furman wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > We should not encourage people to write code that works with a certain > > bugfix release but not with the previous bugfix release of the same > > feature release. > > Then what's the point of a bug-fix release? If 3.2.1 had broken > threading, wouldn't we fix it in 3.2.2 and encourage folks to switch > to 3.2.2? Or would we scrap 3.2 and move immediately to 3.3? (Is > that more or less what happened with 3.0?) > > >> Like it or not, this has worked this way ever since new-style classes >> were introduced. That has made it a de-facto feature. > > But what of the discrepancy between the 'type' metaclass and any other > Python metaclass? There are many discrepancies between built-in types and any Python class. Writable attributes are (generally) one of them. Michael > > >> Given that we haven't had any complaints about this in nearly a >> decade, the backport can't be important. Don't do it. > > Agreed. > > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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