July 30, 2015
7:15 a.m.
On 30 July 2015 at 03:50, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
When in doubt, such discussions should be escalated to python-dev. I don't know if this one was, though I vaguely recall seeing it discussed somewhere. Anyway, since it's been released, it should stay in.
From a communications perspective, we may want to expand the https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#new-features-added-to-python-2... backport documentation idea to also cover this kind of change that closes a network security hole, but may result in an exception in code that previously appeared to be doing the right thing.
Regards, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia