[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 414 (original) (raw)

Calvin Spealman ironfroggy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 23:06:21 CET 2012

On Feb 28, 2012 7:14 PM, <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Why is readding u'' a feature and not a bug? There is a really simple litmus test for whether something is a bug: does it deviate from the specification? In this case, the specification is the grammar, and the implementation certainly doesn't deviate from it. So it can't be a bug.

I don't think anyone can assert that the specification itself is immune to having "bugs".

Regards, Martin P.S. Before anybody over-interprets this criterion: there is certain "implicit behavior" assumed in Python that may not actually be documented, such as "the interpreter will not core dump", and "the source code will compile with any standard C compiler". Deviation from these implicit assumption is also a bug. However, they don't apply here.

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