[Python-Dev] Mercurial Schedule (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Nov 19 22:39:04 CET 2010

Am 19.11.2010 22:35, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":

I don't understand all the worry about sys.subversion. Really? For a security release, there should be zero chance that it breaks existing applications, unless the application relies on the security bug that has been fixed. By "zero chance", I mean absolutely no chance, never. I'm pretty sure that applications will break because of the change to sys.subversion, or sys.version. People made bug reports complaining that sys.version has a newline on some systems and not on others.

It's not like it's useful to anybody else than us I think you underestimate what API people actually use in applications http://tinyurl.com/292vhxx http://tinyurl.com/23ah8ps http://tinyurl.com/27fhyvk http://tinyurl.com/28cuyv9 etc.

Well, it should not be a problem to continue to provide a sys.subversion that at least will not break applications reading it.

And yes, I am in favor of giving the new attribute a leading underscore.

Georg

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list