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Fri Mar 15 00:19:11 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-March/124700.html

On 3/14/2013 6:48 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Am 14.03.13 15:15, schrieb Ani Sinha:
>> I was looking into a mechanism to get the aux fields from recvmsg() in
>> python and I came across this issue. Looks like this feature was added
>> in python 3.3. Is there any reason why this feature was not added for
>> python 2.7?
>
> Most certainly: Python 2.7 (and thus Python 2) is feature-frozen; no

As are 3.2 and now 3.3. Every version is feature frozen when released. 
Bugfix releases only contain bugfixes.

> new features can be added to it. People wanting new features need to
> port to Python 3.

In particular 3.3.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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