making python scripts backwards compatible

[Brian Quinlan]

James J. Besemer wrote:

> I could be mistaken and correct me if I am wrong but I thought the
case in
> point was about a contribution made OUTSIDE of a standard
distribution.
> In that case the original poster humbly (with just a touch of
frustration)
> asked for authors to provide at least a CLUE about what release the
> software might reasonably be expected to work with.

The original poster was speaking of SimpleXMLRPCServer, which he
extracted from core Python.

> IIRC, the author furthermore said he was using a CVS version of Python
> instead of an official release, I suppose making it even harder to
comply
> with an otherwise reasonable request (IMHO).

When you are writing a module that is supposed to ship with the
forthcoming version of Python, using CVS (or a prerelease) is the most
effective means of testing.

Cheers,
Brian