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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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.

Since 2.7 will be closer to 3.2 than 2.6, the result will more likely
be: many people will want to support 2.7 and 3.x - which is really
what we should be after.

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