[Python-3000] Nix dict.copy()

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Feb 10 03:35:51 CET 2008


On Feb 9, 2008 5:52 PM, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> Has anyone thought of making a execution-informed converter? If you
> have a comprehensive test suite, it seems that it ought be possible to
> use the actual execution of the test suite, under a trace hook
> perhaps, or something of that sort, to inform the converter and allow
> it to correctly make changes like this.

Yes, but it seems an overwhelmingly complex task given the available
number of volunteers.

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