* Inada-san would like to enable "python -VV" to print the full REPL header for improved debugging information * we don't want to mess with "-V" because external scripts may be relying on it (e.g. to figure out filenames) * "python -VV" is already permitted, but just means the same thing as "python -V"">

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It is a New Feature and therefore ineligible for adding to 3.5 or 3.4.


/arry


On 10/17/2016 08:05 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Oct 17, 2016, at 05:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:




* Inada-san would like to enable "python -VV" to print the full REPL
header for improved debugging information
* we don't want to mess with "-V" because external scripts may be
relying on it (e.g. to figure out filenames)
* "python -VV" is already permitted, but just means the same thing as
"python -V"


I think this is a good idea



So do I.




, but this is a CPython-the-implementation feature, rather than a
Python-the-language feature, so it isn't clear what rules apply to adding it.



Certainly add it to 3.7. I think the decision whether to add it to 3.6 and
the stable releases should be up to the respective release managers. As you
say, it's not a language feature, but it's still a new feature and as such it
does fall within a gray area.


I'd personally have no problem with adding it to 3.6 and possibly earlier
stable releases, but I'm not an RM of any active releases any more. I'd say,
open a bug, post the patch against the versions you want to see it applied to,
go through the review process, and let the RMs decide if its worth the risk.


Cheers,
-Barry
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