Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'll gladly take that as an added rationalization of my plea not to change datetime. In the case of datetime, could perhaps just the module name be changed so that it's not the same as a name inside the module? Maybe call it date_time or date_and_time.
I don't think that's advisable ATM -- again, something we should have done for 3.0, but now it's too late.
I really don't want to set a trend where 3.1 is backwards incompatible with 3.0 *except* in cases where we were really planning to kill something in 3.0 and accidentally forgot to quite remove it completely (like cmp()).
Right. Otherwise pprint.pprint becomes pprint.p_print and ... That way madness lies. Besides which, what a terrific opportunity to castigate the Py3k developers forever. Opportunities like that don't come by every day ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Want to know? Come to PyCon - soon! http://us.pycon.org/