[Python-Dev] Raising objections

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Apr 20 16:17:40 CEST 2006


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>
> I don't mind rewriting much, but hate leaving the original code in
> place; this is confusing to new users, even if it's convenient for
> existing users.  How many HTML parsers are in the core now?  (My gut
> feeling is that that Python's adoption curve has flattened, so it's
> probably now more important to keep existing users happy, so the time
> for jettisoning modules may be past.)

There's a lot of truth for that with Python 2.x, but that's what 3.0 is
for.
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