On 6/2/2017 12:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 03, 2017, at 02:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> The benefit of making any backport a private API is that it would mean >> we weren't committing to support that API for general use: it would be >> supported *solely* for the use case discussed in the PEP (i.e. helping >> to advance the development of PEP 543 without breaking pip >> bootstrapping in the process). > > That sounds like a good compromise. My own major objection was in exposing a > new public API in Python 2.7, which would clearly be a new feature. Which would likely be seen by someone as justifying other requests to add to 2.7 'just this one more essential new feature' ;-). -- Terry Jan Reedy
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