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

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 20:20:10 CEST 2011

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>wrote:

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? It's in the first paragraph.

I disagree. The first paragraph says this has something to do with new keywords. It doesn't appear to say what we expect users to -do- with it. Both are important.

Is it "You'd better try this, because it's going in eventually. If you don't try it out before it becomes default behavior, you have no right to complain"?

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