[Python-checkins] r47002 - peps/trunk/pep-0291.txt

[George Yoshida]

On 6/18/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
> >> uuid.py states that:
> >>   This module works with Python 2.3 or higher.
> >
> > Did you ask Ping whether he wants to keep this compatibility?
> > IIRC we wanted to reduce such dependencies.
>
> I was wondering about the same. If it is listed only because
> it works with 2.3, not because ongoing compatibility with 2.3
> is required, it should be removed from the PEP. The comment
> could be removed from the file, or it could stay until it becomes
> false.

I looked at uuid.py and followed py-dev discussions carefully
and ctypes are there.
Apart from the Ka-Pin's initial plan, it's unlikely that
current uuid is assumed to run on vanilla Python 2.3 or 2.4.
I was fooled by that comment.

I'll ask Ka-Ping and py-dev forks.

Thanks for alerting me.

-- 
george