[Python-Dev] draft pep: backwards compatibility

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jun 19 16:15:23 CEST 2009


Benjamin Peterson <benjamin <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> I mean that if you pass X and Y into a function and get Z in 2.6, then
> you should be able to get Z from passing X and Y in 2.7 even if
> there's a new argument that returns Z' if you pass True to it.

Well, except if returning Z rather than Z' was a bug.

Regards

Antoine.




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