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Wed Sep 3 02:19:46 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-September/136190.html

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:47:35 -0700
Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 3 Sep 2014 09:08, "David Reid" <dreid at dreid.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Creating *new* incompatibilities between Python 2 & Python 3 is a major point
> > > > of concern.
> > >
> > > Clearly this change should be backported to Python2.
> > 
> > Proposing to break backwards compatibility in a maintenance release (...)
> > 
> 
> As we keep saying, this is not a break in backwards compatibility, it's a bug fix.

Keeping saying it doesn't make it magically true.
Besides, it can perfectly well be a bug fix *as well as* a break in
backwards compatibility. Which is why we sometimes choose to fix bugs
only in the feature development branch.

Regards

Antoine.

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