[Python-Dev] Module renaming and pickle mechanisms

[Mark Hammond]

Nick writes:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > I don't think that an administrative problem such as forward-
> > porting patches to 3.x warrants breakage in the 2.x branch.
> >
> > After all, the renaming was approached for Python 3.0 and not
> > 2.6 *because* it introduces major breakage.
> >
> > AFAIR, the discussion on the stdlib-sig also didn't include the
> > plan to backport such changes to 2.6. Otherwise, we would have
> > hashed them out there.
> 
> I think MAL is 100% correct here (and I expect Raymond will chime in to
> support him at some point as well).

And until then, a +1 for MAL's position from me as well.  2.x should be
quite conservative about such changes...

Cheers,

Mark