
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
<glyph <at> divmod.com> writes:
This is a false dichotomy; for core developers, the list needs to be exhaustive. Everything that can change needs to be described as either compatible or incompatible.
How do you enumerate "everything that can change"? It does not look like a finite set to me (but perhaps I'm wrong); and certainly not like a set of a size reasonable enough to be enumerated in a human-readable way :)
And this is why expressing a finite list of things we guarantee won't change is a virtually impossible task - unless one of you is volunteering to write an official spec for Python and its libraries... :-) (Something that would not be bad IMO - just a long and difficult task, *especially* if you include the library along with language semantics and APIs). Michael
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