[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, April 16, 2010, at 04:57PM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Okay;  I'll open an issue for deprecation in 3.2 and removal in 3.3.
>>>
>>> Can this sneak in under the 'incorrect language semantics' exemption
>>> for PEP 3003 (the moratorium PEP)?  If not, then deprecation
>>> presumably has to wait for 3.3.
>>
>>It seems that in spirit the moratorium applies more to language additions than
>>to removals/limitations. The goal being that alternate implementation stop
>>chasing a moving target in terms of features.
>>
>>So IMVHO it is fine for 3.2.
>
> What about 2.7, should it be deprecated there as well?

I think so. Compatibility with PyPy, Jython and IronPython is only
going to become more important.

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