On 9 June 2010 10:20, Konrad Delong
Which gives me an idea:
What if all the backports were managed within a single PyPI package, (e.g. backport26, backport27) with clear policy on older Python versions supported.
then I could write in my py2.4 script:
from backport26.os.path import relpath
It's not a bad idea. A key benefit seems to be that it can be done by anyone, whether or not they are a core developer. So it can be set up right now, without taking up any of the limited core-dev resource. Of course, conversely, the disadvantage is that nobody's done this already, implying that either nobody's thought of it before or there's actually little motivation for someone to put the work into such a solution :-) If nobody's thought of it, you may be lucky and someone will pick up the idea and run with it. Paul.