[Python-3000] clean out the future?

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 16:10:19 CEST 2007


Fred Drake wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Should the __future__ be cleaned out for 3k, or should all future  
>> imports
>> continue to work and do nothing?
> 
> They should continue to work.
> 
> One advantage of keeping the existing feature table in the __future__  
> module is that is makes it easier to avoid re-using a feature name; I  
> think there's merit in that.

While I don't object to that (I agree keeping the history in the 
__future__ module is a good thing), 2to3 should probably strip them 
anyway, since they're now redundant.

Cheers,
Nick.

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