[Python-Dev] PEP 3000 and iterators

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> However, such a "future_builtins" module could still include modified versions 
> of those standard objects - such "future-proofed" code would simply still need 
> to deal with the fact that other libraries or clients may pass in the 
> old-style components (e.g. just as unicode-aware code needs to deal with the 
> fact that other libraries or clients may produce 8-bit strings rather than 
> unicode text).

And be careful not to pass them to old code which expects the
traditional versions of these objects.

Sounds far too tricky and error-prone to be worth the trouble
to me.

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