[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Apr 20 16:17:40 CEST 2006

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

I don't mind rewriting much, but hate leaving the original code in place; this is confusing to new users, even if it's convenient for existing users. How many HTML parsers are in the core now? (My gut feeling is that that Python's adoption curve has flattened, so it's probably now more important to keep existing users happy, so the time for jettisoning modules may be past.)

There's a lot of truth for that with Python 2.x, but that's what 3.0 is for.

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