
On 12 February 2015 at 11:14, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
(the "new dependency" then would be not supporting Python <3.5 (or whatever))
I've seen this argument a few times on python-ideas, and I don't understand it. By this rationale, there's little point ever adding any new feature to Python, because people who need to support older versions can't use it. By posting on python-ideas, you're implicitly prepared to take the long term view - these are ideas that we might be able to really use in a few years. One day, relying on Python 3.5 or above will be completely reasonable, and then we can take advantage of the things we're adding to it now. It's like an investment in code.
why not create a function, put it on PyPI and collect usage stats
Does anyone seriously believe that people will add a dependency which contains a single three line function? Thomas