[Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x? (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 09:15:47 CET 2009

2009/10/28 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

<skip pobox.com> writes:

>> So 2.7 support will for the most part be a case not of supporting >> Python versions, but Python users. Antoine> That's still not a good reason to backport nonlocal. The same Antoine> reasoning could be used to backport new features to the 2.6 Antoine> branch after all. No, because 2.6 is in feature freeze (bug fixes only).  2.7 is the current version of 2.x where new features are allowed to be added. That was precisely my point.

Then I don't understand what you are saying. Obviously we shouldn't backport to the 2.6 branch, it's in bugfix mode. This is about 2.7. I don't see what 2.6 has to do with it.

There are development practices which mitigate the idea that backporting is always helpful to the user.

And those are?

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