[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Apr 16 18:15:56 CEST 2010

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

On Friday, April 16, 2010, at 04:57PM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm gmail.com> writes:

Okay;  I'll open an issue for deprecation in 3.2 and removal in 3.3. Can this sneak in under the 'incorrect language semantics' exemption for PEP 3003 (the moratorium PEP)?  If not, then deprecation presumably has to wait for 3.3. It seems that in spirit the moratorium applies more to language additions than to removals/limitations. The goal being that alternate implementation stop chasing a moving target in terms of features. So IMVHO it is fine for 3.2. What about 2.7, should it be deprecated there as well?

I think so. Compatibility with PyPy, Jython and IronPython is only going to become more important.

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