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Thu May 28 17:05:56 CEST 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-May/140255.html

On 28/05/2015 15:47, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> But you could argue that "Special cases aren't special enough to break the
>> rules" and that's what we are proposing here by claiming Python 2.7 is a
>> special case and thus we should accept a patch that is not a one-liner
>> change to gain some performance in a bugfix release.
>
> One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this
> retort: "Although practicality beats purity," but I won't. :-)
>
> Skip
>

That's good, otherwise you'd just be repeating what Raymond said further 
up this subthread two hours and one minute before you didn't say it :)

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