[Python-Dev] Re: Patch level versions and new features (Was: Some dull gc stats)

[Gordon McMillan]

On 8 Jul 2002 at 18:24, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> Of couse, taking the _xmlplus hack out of PyXML
> will cause backwards compatibility problems
> (regardless what the alternative hook is). 

How? As long as "import xml" gets them _xmlplus, I
can't see how it would break anything.

I'd say it's broken already, since code written for
_xmlplus assumes a different contract, and that
is completely implicit.

-- Gordon
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