[Python-Dev] Warning about use of long double - what's the correct approach?

[Guido van Rossum]

>     Guido> That's a longstanding nit: $OPT is used to specify some
>     Guido> standard things as well as giving you a hook to override.
>     Guido> I think we should introduce a separate variable.
> 
> That makes good sense to me.  For the purposes of backward
> compatibility, I suppose we shouldn't change OPT as the variable
> people set to tweak settings.  I'll create a new BASEOPT variable
> and submit a patch.

OK!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)