[Python-Dev] About issue 6560

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 14.03.13 15:15, schrieb Ani Sinha:
> I was looking into a mechanism to get the aux fields from recvmsg() in
> python and I came across this issue. Looks like this feature was added
> in python 3.3. Is there any reason why this feature was not added for
> python 2.7?

Most certainly: Python 2.7 (and thus Python 2) is feature-frozen; no
new features can be added to it. People wanting new features need to
port to Python 3.

Regards,
Martin