On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
I see the smiley, but just in case you were half serious, I really think we should stick to the policy and not make exceptions for personal pet peeves.
The only reason I would argue against that would be for the fact that AFAIK, it's "nearly done and ready" - that being said, that is a specious argument. But I agree - no exceptions makes sense.
Obviously there are many things we could change in the standard library that would still affect the ability to upgrade easily (see the recent issues with 2.6.3 and 2.6.4), and we should be exercising a lot of restraint in this are as well. But language changes affect other implementations the most (I think). They also coincidentally speak most to the imagination of the young, eager-to-add-their-pet-feature amateur language designer crowd who so often fill python-ideas with heated discussions.
Agreed; there's been discussion on disutils-sig and other places (such as the language summit) revolving around a "single, shared" standard library for all of the implementations. So long as the syntax is unchanged, we can upgrade/improve the stdlib over time, and make it used for the various implementations. jesse