[Python-Dev] PEP 291 versus Python 3 (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Nov 30 21:11:58 CET 2010

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:35, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Nov 30, 2010, at 01:09 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

PEP 291 is very old and should probably be retired. I don't think anyone is maintaining standard libraries in py3k that are also compatible with Python 2.anything. (At least not in a single codebase.) I agree.

Same here; I have purposefully ignored compatibility requirements because I always found those promises to be extremely annoying and somewhat painful to enforce.

 I think we should change the status of PEP 291 to Final, and add a few words to make it clear it applies only to Python 2.  Since Neal owns the PEP, he should get first crack at doing the update, but I volunteer to make those changes if he declines (or does not respond).

I will channel Neal: "I decline and/or do not want to respond". =)

We may eventually need a similar document for Python 3, but it should be a new PEP.

I hope not.

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