[Python-Dev] Code cleanups in stable branches?

[Éric Araujo]

Hi,

> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/72de2ac8bb4f
> branch:      2.7
> user:        Petri Lehtinen <petri at digip.org>
> date:        Sun Oct 30 13:55:02 2011 +0200
> summary:
>   Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls (closes #10519)

> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0694ebb5db99
> branch:      2.7
> user:        Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>
> date:        Mon Oct 31 16:02:12 2011 +0100
> summary:
>   Closes #13283: removal of two unused variable in locale.py

I thought that patches that clean up code but don’t fix actual bugs were
not done in stable branches.  Has this changed?

(The first commit quoted above may be a performance fix, which would be
okay IIRC.)

Regards