[Python-Dev] list comprehensions
Tim Peters
tim_one@email.msn.com
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:46:17 -0400
[Tim, sez the 1.6 feature set should be considered frozen, and that
Python should move to a much less sloth-like release schedule
thereafter]
[esr@thyrsus.com]
> OK, I can buy this.
Comes with a 30-day warranty, too <wink>.
> Are there concrete plans (as in, a specified timeframe)
> for a release in which new features will be admitted?
There damn well ought to be. PythonLabs will be having its first all-hands
meeting tomorrow (Guido's been gone, I've been in this state less than a
week, & I'm still not sure Jeremy Hylton exists), and rational, timely
release schedules are certainly on my agenda. I have no problem with new
features in minor releases either, provided they're 100% backward-compatible
(e.g., list comprehensions, yes (so long as they don't introduce new
bytecodes); having str(long) strip the trailing "L", no). More when we know
more.
and-less-when-we-know-less-ly y'rs - tim