Author: barry.warsaw Date: Tue Nov 30 22:05:26 2010 New Revision: 86904 Log: Make it clear that PEP 291 covers only Python 2, and mark it final (now that Python 2.7 - the last in the Python 2 line - has been released). Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0291.txt Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0291.txt ============================================================================== --- peps/trunk/pep-0291.txt (original) +++ peps/trunk/pep-0291.txt Tue Nov 30 22:05:26 2010 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ PEP: 291 -Title: Backward Compatibility for Standard Library +Title: Backward Compatibility for the Python 2 Standard Library Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: nnorwitz@gmail.com (Neal Norwitz) -Status: Active +Status: Final Type: Informational Created: 06-Jun-2002 Python-Version: 2.3 @@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ Abstract - This PEP describes the packages and modules in the standard - library which should remain backward compatible with previous - versions of Python. If a package is not listed here, then it need - only remain compatible with the version of Python it is - distributed with. + This PEP describes the packages and modules in the Python 2 + standard library which should remain backward compatible with + previous versions of Python. If a package is not listed here, + then it need only remain compatible with the version of Python it + is distributed with. + + This PEP has no bearing on the Python 3 standard library. Rationale