
June 19, 2009
5:22 a.m.
Michael Foord <fuzzyman <at> voidspace.org.uk> writes:
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...
Well, we *can* enumerate a list of things that are guaranteed not to change - it's just that the list will be "completely incomplete", and the rest will rely on application of common sense rather than formal guarantees. And it actually more or less exists: it's Python's official documentation, combined with a bit of common sense when interpreting its written text. Regards Antoine.