2009/10/21 Dino Viehland <dinov@microsoft.com>
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For example consider multiprocessing - which IronPython still doesn't support. That's a much bigger work item than everything that changed related to parsing in 2.6. New built-in functions can also be a huge pain - again compare float.fromhex to everything that happened to the parser in 2.6. I'm pretty sure I spent more time on float.fromhex even w/ the already existing awesome test suite.
Was it a pain because it was on a builtin or because of the specific functionality? Michael
So I definitely think not adding significant new functionality to the core interpreter would be great but from an alternate implementation perspective I'd also be happy to see some wiggle room on small new features. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas