[Python-Dev] Backward-incompatible change to random.randrange in 2.7.6

[Daniel Holth]

But who could forget njzrs' wasp UAV software line 107, using
int=float? https://github.com/nzjrs/wasp/blob/master/sw/groundstation/wasp/__init__.py#L107

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> BTW, I bet a lavish dinner at PyCon that it is *only* Zope/ZODB that
> does this. In the time we added this bogus dependency on undocumented
> parameters, the PythonLabs team was at Zope and we didn't always get
> our boundaries straight.
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 December 2013 20:17, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 18.12.13 04:40, Benjamin Peterson написав(ла):
>>>>
>>>>> Mostly yes, but at least you could tell people to upgrade straight to
>>>>> 2.7.7 and skip 2.7.6.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It'll make the people to postpone the upgrade to 2.7.6 (which fixes many
>>>> security bugs) until 2.7.7 release,  instead of correcting their
>>>> morally-broken programs.
>>>
>>> If this is considered enough breakage to be a problem, would it be
>>> possible to issue a 2.7.6.1 or 2.7.6+fixed release that's identical to
>>> 2.7.6 but with this change reverted? It'd be a minor mess, but then
>>> people would still get those security fixes, and it means not breaking
>>> stuff in a point release.
>>
>> If we revert it, it means we do 2.7.7 ASAP so that *everyone* can just
>> skip straight to 2.7.7.
>>
>> That kind of user visible change shouldn't have been made in a point
>> release, regardless of what the docs said. It just isn't worth the
>> risk of breaking the code of people that are relying on what's
>> possible rather than what the docs say.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
>>
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