[Python-Dev] Exposing different versions of a system call in Python

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/19/2018 11:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 20 January 2018 at 02:32, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018, at 04:28, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote:
>>> On the other side, we have pipe and pipe2 as an example of exposing two
>>> versions when this situation happens.
>>>
>>> The question is:
>>>
>>> What is preferable, exposing both functions or augment the old one?

I personally find a new parameter easier to remember than a new 
function, which will also have the new parameter.

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Terry Jan Reedy