[Python-Dev] nonlocal keyword in 2.x? (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 28 15:49:47 CET 2009
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<skip pobox.com> writes:
>> So 2.7 support will for the most part be a case not of supporting >> Python versions, but Python users. Antoine> That's still not a good reason to backport nonlocal. The same Antoine> reasoning could be used to backport new features to the 2.6 Antoine> branch after all. No, because 2.6 is in feature freeze (bug fixes only). 2.7 is the current version of 2.x where new features are allowed to be added.
That was precisely my point. There are development practices which mitigate the idea that backporting is always helpful to the user.
Regards
Antoine.
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