[Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2003-01-01 through 2003-01-15 (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:32:26 -0600

I think the first item on the list should be the security problems in rexec and Bastion which led Guido to cripple them. This is likely to be the most significant incompatibility in 2.3 (and 2.2.3 if it is ever released).

Brett> ===================================================
Brett> `PEP 303: Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors`__
Brett> ===================================================
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Brett> to compute", primarily because  ``divmod()``  is a method and the overhead

                                         function --------^^^^^^
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Brett> should be changed in Py3K.  Someone suggested renaming it ``def``, but

Maybe define "Py3K" so the more reactionary readers on c.l.py don't think the language is going to break with the release of Python 2.3. (You might be surprised at how some of them react and what they react to.)

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