[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:14:14 -0400

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>>>>> "A" == Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes: A> Hrm. But until it's no longer a separate package, why use A> 2.2-specific features in the builtin package? Because it's convenient, and the semantics are subtly different (and IMO suboptimal) without them. E.g. the builtin version uses a generator in a few places, while the standalone version uses an iterator. The generator version is much more intuitive, but to write cross-version code that uses that interface you need to do something like call list() on a return value.

Well, sure. But you have to do that suboptimal stuff anyway in order to maintain the separate package. How is the overall development process more convenient to maintain two codebases?

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