[Python-Dev] r86418 - in python/branches/release27-maint: Doc/library/difflib.rst Lib/difflib.py Lib/test/test_difflib.py Misc/NEWS (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Nov 12 21:32:21 CET 2010

On 11/12/2010 2:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Hello, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:22:19 +0100 (CET) terry.reedy<python-checkins at python.org> wrote: + + .. versionadded:: 2.7 + The autojunk parameter. Maybe I've missed something, but is there any reason to add a new parameter in a bugfix release? (apart from security issues)

This is a bugfix. We discussed this (with Tim's participation) here last July/August and pretty well agreed that this was the least obnoxious solution to a bad situation.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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