[Python-Dev] User's complaints

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    Neal> I agree, but some of this responsibility has to fall to users.
    Neal> Sometimes these breakages are bugs, pure and simple.  Our tests
    Neal> don't catch everything.  This is why it's really, really important
    Neal> to get as many alpha/beta testers as possible.  Had the issues
    Neal> been brought up before 2.4 was released, we could have addressed
    Neal> them.

You're of course preaching to the choir here.  Somehow we need to do a
better job convincing the Python-using public to pay attention to alphas and
betas, especially software consultants like Greg Black.

Another area where this particular process broke down was that there simply
wasn't already a test case for the fairly common case of calling strftime
with a six-zeroes pad to format a simple date.  Had it been there already,
it would have been discovered when Brett added the range checks.

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