[Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

[Skip Montanaro]

    Eric> Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca>:
    >> I'm not sure what you mean by "should just work".  Source
    >> compatibility between 1.5.2 and 2.0 is very high.  The 2.0 NEWS file
    >> should list all the changes (single argument append and socket
    >> addresses are the big ones).

    Eric> And that change only affected a misfeature that was never
    Eric> documented and has been deprecated for some time.

Perhaps, but it had worked "forever".  In fact, I seems to recall that
example code in the Python distribution used the two-argument connect call
for sockets.

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