[Python-Dev] Module renaming and pickle mechanisms (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon May 19 17:39:40 CEST 2008

Nick writes:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > I don't think that an administrative problem such as forward- > porting patches to 3.x warrants breakage in the 2.x branch. > > After all, the renaming was approached for Python 3.0 and not > 2.6 because it introduces major breakage. > > AFAIR, the discussion on the stdlib-sig also didn't include the > plan to backport such changes to 2.6. Otherwise, we would have > hashed them out there.

I think MAL is 100% correct here (and I expect Raymond will chime in to support him at some point as well). And until then, a +1 for MAL's position from me as well. 2.x should be quite conservative about such changes...

I concur.

Raymond

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