[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com>]
>> We hope that the Python documentation describes the semantics of the
>> language and packages as completely as is reasonably possible.
>> So you are effectively saying that no backwards-incompatible change should
>> ever be made.
>> If we accepted that, this discussion would end now.
> 
> There should be a very high bias against changing documented behavior
> that is in fact working as documented.  The document is a contract
> with users.  Contracts shouldn't be violated without truly compelling
> cause.
> 
> "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."  There's
> a reason Darth Vader wasn't proclaimed Python's BDFL ;-)
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When the documented behavior is both nonsensical and the cause of hard
to debug bugs that is a pretty compelling use case to me, unless you actively
enjoy being user hostile.

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Donald Stufft
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