[Python-Dev] readline.clear_history() (original) (raw)

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon Sep 1 20:14:54 EDT 2003

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> Probably. I'm personally not so stringent for minor stuff like this > (hey, I added bool() to 2.2.1 :-), but it seems others are > increasingly resisting even minor feature additions in micro releases > (except in the email package :-). The problem with adding things like this is that it makes it harder to port code from 2.3.1 to 2.3 and at least in principle it would be nice if code that works on 2.3.1 works on 2.3 unless it tickles a specific bug that has been fixed. And, come Panther, there are going to be rather a lot of Python 2.3 installs out there. Just as a matter of interest, do you have any idea how many Mac OSX licensees there are?

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