[Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

[Eric S. Raymond]

Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca>:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "should just work".  Source
> compatibility between 1.5.2 and 2.0 is very high.  The 2.0 NEWS
> file should list all the changes (single argument append and
> socket addresses are the big ones). 

And that change only affected a misfeature that was never documented and
has been deprecated for some time.
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