[Python-Dev] PEP 3000 and iterators (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 12 07:24:34 CEST 2005

Nick Coghlan wrote:

However, such a "futurebuiltins" module could still include modified versions of those standard objects - such "future-proofed" code would simply still need to deal with the fact that other libraries or clients may pass in the old-style components (e.g. just as unicode-aware code needs to deal with the fact that other libraries or clients may produce 8-bit strings rather than unicode text).

And be careful not to pass them to old code which expects the traditional versions of these objects.

Sounds far too tricky and error-prone to be worth the trouble to me.

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