[Python-Dev] About raising NotPortableWarning for CPython specific code

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/12/2011 8:23 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> Greg Ewing<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>  wrote:
>> So am I. It seems to result from the hisorical mess
>> of distinguishing between numeric and sequence operations
>> at the C level but not the Python level. I think CPython
>> should be moving in the direction of eliminating that
>> distinction, not expecting all other Python implementations
>> to copy it.
>
> As a person responsible for part of the mess, I agree.  I would hope
> this could be cleaned up in Python 3 without causing too much
> trouble for developers.

I opened the issue http://bugs.python.org/issue11477
but I won't be writing the patch ;-).

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Terry Jan Reedy