PEP0238 lament

[Terry Reedy]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message
news:cpr8v6ow8o.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
> "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com>

[quoting from PEP0238, after Guido questioned my '2 years' paraphrase]

> > The warning will be off by default in the 2.2 release, and on by
> >     default for in the next Python release, and will stay in
effect
> >     for 24 months.

> Touche.  I couldn't find that passage in the PEP, and had even gone
to
> the trouble of searching for "year"... :-(
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

How funny.  I had just read PEP 5 which proffers a minimum of 1 year,
so I automatically divided by 12 to compare, never dreaming that I
would mislead someone into searching for '2 years' instead of  '24
months'.

Terry J. Reedy