[Python-3000] __reduce__() and __reduce_ex__()

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Yeah -- the _ex suffix on the name suggests that that's the API we
> wanted but we'd already released a version with a suboptimal API...

Hmmm, that convention isn't very scalable. What happens
when you update the API again -- do you use an _ex_ex
suffix? :-)

Also it tends to make things look unpleasanty Microsoftish. :-(

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