On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
> But you could argue that "Special cases aren't special enough to break the
> rules" and that's what we are proposing here by claiming Python 2.7 is a
> special case and thus we should accept a patch that is not a one-liner
> change to gain some performance in a bugfix release.

One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this
retort: "Although practicality beats purity," but I won't. :-)