[Python-Dev] Re: Python-checkins digest, Vol 1 #370 - 8 msgs

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > MAL:
> > > Hmm, I'd say it doesn't hurt leaving .append() as it is until
> > > 2.0.
> 
> /F:
> > fwiw, I definitely agree.  I've spotted too many
> > places where this change cause a program to
> > silently misbehave, rather than blow up (PIL's
> > JPEG plugin is just one example...).
> 
> Sigh...

I think you've got a wrong impression here: this is not so
much a design question, it's a timing problem: two months
are not enough to get all our software ready for 1.6 ...

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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