[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Andrew Svetlov]

Is there any reason to have Future .cancelled, .done, .running as methods?
>From my perspective they are really readonly properties.

BTW, is 'cancelled' correct name? Spell-checkers likes only single 'l'
form: 'canceled'.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Also, you can't fix bugs except by
>>>> releasing new versions of Python. Therefore the API must be completely
>>>> stable, and the product virtually bugfree before it should be in
>>>> stdlib. The best way of ensuring that is to release it as a separate
>>>> module on PyPI, and let it stabilize for a couple of years.
>>>
>>> Yeah but that model isn't likely to work with this package.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Brian
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance, but why do you say that that model won't work
>> with this package?
>
> As I said in my last message:
>
> """Simple modules are unlikely to develop a following because it is too easy
> to partially replicate their functionality. urlparse and os.path are very
> useful modules but I doubt that they would have been successful on PyPI."""
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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