[Python-Dev] Writable doc (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 19 18:21:56 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2012/1/19 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>**:

http://bugs.python.org/**issue12773 <http://bugs.python.org/issue12773> :)

The bug is marked as close, whereas the bug exists in Python 3.2 and has no been closed. The fix must be backported. It's not a bug; it's a feature. Where does one draw the line between feature and bug? As a user I'm inclined to classify this as a bug: doc was writable with old-style classes; doc is writable with new-style classes with any metaclass; and there exists no good reason (that I'm aware of ;) for doc to not be writable.

Like it or not, this has worked this way ever since new-style classes were introduced. That has made it a de-facto feature. We should not encourage people to write code that works with a certain bugfix release but not with the previous bugfix release of the same feature release.

Given that we haven't had any complaints about this in nearly a decade, the backport can't be important. Don't do it.

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