[Python-Dev] Bugfix releases should not change APIs

[Nick Coghlan]

On 29/05/10 09:03, Terry Reedy wrote:
> After filing
> http://bugs.python.org/issue8840
> I was rather shocked to be told that the code-breaking and
> policy-violating change was intentional because being 'more consistent
> with other file-handling APIs out there' was somehow more important than
> consistency within version releases. It also seems to me that discussion
> of code-breaking API changes like this should involve more than one user
> and one developer. See
> http://bugs.python.org/issue6939

For the record, I have added links to Guido's python-dev post to both of 
these tracker issues.

Cheers,
Nick.

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