[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 328 -- relative and multi-line import

[Bill Janssen]

> My opinion is that the process is correct and it is just a question of 
> whether the timelines are generous enough or not. Somewhere between 
> "Python 2.6" and "never" there must be a point where people have had 
> enough time to change over their code after getting nagged by the 
> DeprecationWarning.

I couldn't agree with you more, Paul.  I think that point is whenever
the major version number is bumped to 3.

> Most people in the Python community know that Python doesn't really have 
> "minor releases" other than bugfix releases.

This is python-dev thinking again.  There are lots of users of Python
who don't want to be "in the Python community", and feel that a
properly managed programming language is one that doesn't require
"membership" to get things right.

Bill