2.2.x backports of 2.3.x new features?

[Michael Hudson]

Simon Brunning <SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk> writes:

> > From:	Richard Jones [SMTP:rjones at ekit-inc.com]
> > The maintenance releases don't include new features, ever(*).
> > 
> > *: unless they do <wink> (2.2.2 included a "feature update" version of the
> > 
> > email package, 'with special dispensation from the "bugfixes only" rule')
>  
> string.strip() seems to have the new optional argument in 2.2.2, too. See
> <http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node12.html>.

Yes, but that was a cock-up (or at least I think so).  Those changes
got included as part of a str/unicode consistency fix, as far as I can
tell.

Cheers,
M.

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