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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>From: guido@python.org<br>Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:33:46 -0800<br>To: rosuav@gmail.com<br>Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Change the repr for datetime.timedelta (was Re: Asynchronous context manager in a typical network server)<br>CC: python-dev@python.org<div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>> I'm just curious on the backward compatibility impact.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm just curious on the number of programs depending on the repr() of any object at all in production (not counting tests). I could be wrong, but it seems foolish to rely on that, especially since this is something that we *can* change on an (almost) arbitrary basis. IMO, the repr() is meant to aid the programmer - not specifying keyword arguments here does quite the opposite of that :)</div><div><br></div></div>> <br>> -- <br><div class="ecxgmail_signature">> --Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div><div class="ecxgmail_signature"><br></div><div class="ecxgmail_signature">-Emanuel</div>
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