"TP" == Tim Peters
writes:
TP> [David Abrahams]
What does this "experimental" label mean?
TP> I'm not sure. Guido slaps that label on new features from time TP> to time, with the implication that they may go away in the TP> following release. However, no *advertised* experimental TP> feature has ever gone away, and I doubt one ever will. We TP> should drop the "experimental" on this one for sure now, as lots TP> of code uses list.extend(). The access statement was experimental and went away. I guess it is the exception that proves the rule. It was removed about the time I started using Python, so I don't know what it's intended use was. Many of the Python 2.2 features are also labeled experimental. And I don't expect that they will go away either. Jeremy