[Python-Dev] what level of backward compatibility? how
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Fri May 7 02:10:20 EDT 2004
On Friday 07 May 2004 12:29 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I have a different POV. I don't think there is a compelling reason to
> change this attribute into a set (I doubt it's so time-critical as to
> make a difference) and given that the attribute isn't flagged as
> "private" by having a name starting with underscore, I think the
> change ought to be reverted.
I'd like to suggest that we either document the "right way" to extend the
information to support new URL schemes, and possibly add a function as the
way to do that. Having to update a whole set of lists from outside the
module seems a poor and error-prone way to do this.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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