[Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> Is it even wort doing a 2.7 release? Isn't the effort better spent on
> 3.2 alone? (Note, these aren't rhetorical questions. It's well
> possible that there are good reasons for pushing along with 2.7. Maybe
> considering those reasons will also help answering questions about
> whether to backport things like nonlocal.)

2.7 has an up-to-date backport of the C IO lib (as well as the memoryview
object), which means it is better for people wanting to ease transition to 3.x.

But of course, as Martin said, few people will want to support 2.7 only and not 
2.6.