[Python-Dev] 2.3b1 release

[Guido van Rossum]

> On vrijdag, apr 18, 2003, at 01:14 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum 
> wrote:
> > I'll back out the change to 'h', which is the only incompatible change
> > I can see (unless you consider accepting *more* than before an error).
> > Thomas made no changes to 'l', so I'm not sure what that is about --
> > maybe the problem is with unsigned hex constants?
> 
> Okay, great!!
> 
> Is this a temporary measure, i.e. is the semantic change to 'h'
> going to come back after 2.3 is out?

I don't see why -- it always was a signed short, let it stay that way.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)