[Python-Dev] The bytes type

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Fri Jan 12 21:30:47 CET 2007


    glyph> "I think we should draw a line in the sand and resolve not to
    glyph> compatibility-up Py2.6.  The whole Py3.0 project is about
    glyph> eliminating useful libraries and being free of the bonds of
    glyph> working software.  Adding non-essential forward-compatibility to
    glyph> Py2.6 goes against that philosophy."

I think you meant "useless", right?  I'm not aware of any proposals to
eliminate the os, re or csv modules. ;-)

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