[Python-Dev] METH_CLASS (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter anthony@interlink.com.au
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:30:07 +1000

Guido van Rossum wrote > 2. Since this is marked new in 2.3: Is it planned to backport > this stuff into the 2.2.x series? > Requiring Python 2.3 for my stuff seems a but harsh currently... I don't plan to backport this to 2.2 unless there's an overwhelming demand.

I'd suggest that this isn't the sort of thing that should be going into 2.2. Aside from the amount of work - I'm guessing it'd be a bit - the notion of adding stuff like this to a maintenance/bugfix release seems, to me, to be stretching the meaning of the term maintenance release.

Anthony

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