[Python-Dev] New functionality in micro releases (was:Documenting branch policy)

[Alex Martelli]

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:02 am, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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> Of course, the sad bit is that even if there were a sys.requireversion(),
> it wouldn't be in the versions where it was actually needed: the older
> ones!

Actually this would "fail-RIGHT": on older versions the program would
die right there with an AttributeException and a traceback about a
line such as sys.requireversion('2.3.2'), which is already a clear
enough indication of exactly what is wrong -- on newer ones with an
even clearer exception, of course.  In any case, one could dress up
the sys.requireversion call in a try/except to make its absence no problem.


Alex