"TP" == Tim Peters
writes:
TP> There are no exceptions to Guido's channeled rules <wink>: TP> no *advertised* experimental feature has ever gone away TP> and the access stmt was never documented ("advertised"). The TP> closest it got was its NEWS entry for 0.9.9: python-mode.el gained knowledge of it in 1996: revision 2.81 date: 1996/09/04 15:21:55; author: bwarsaw; state: Exp; lines: +4 -4 (python-font-lock-keywords): with Python 1.4 `access' is no a keyword Which is just before Python 1.4 final. I've no idea when it went away. >> Many of the Python 2.2 features are also labeled experimental. >> And I don't expect that they will go away either. TP> Well, at least not the ones we've told people about. Barry's TP> hack to make TP> print << file, '%d' % i TP> read an int i from file may well go away. It will last week. Freakin' time machine erased all evidence tomorrow. -Barry