[Python-Dev] Should we move to replace re with regex? (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 18:53:13 CEST 2011


On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:48, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

No, this was not the intent of future. The intent is that a feature is desirable but also backwards incompatible (e.g. introduces a new keyword) so that for 1 (sometimes more) releases we require the users to use the future import.

There was never any intent to use future for experimental features. If we want that maybe we could have from experimental import . OK. So what -is- the purpose of from future import?

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