Message 304198 - Python tracker

Message304198

Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	andrewclegg, barry, ncoghlan, steve.dower
Date	2017-10-12.02:34:50
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Message-id	<1507775691.14.0.213398074469.issue31756@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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As far as docs phrasing goes, it probably makes sense to frame it as "text" being the preferred argument name in 3.7+, with "universal_newlines" retained indefinitely as a compatibility preserving alias. After all, if that wasn't our intention, we wouldn't be adding the more straightforward alias in the first place. As a new Py3-only argument, "text" can also be made keyword-only. (The Popen arg list is so long that most folks treat everything other than the first item as keyword-only anyway, but it doesn't hurt to ask the interpreter to enforce that)

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As far as docs phrasing goes, it probably makes sense to frame it as "text" being the preferred argument name in 3.7+, with "universal_newlines" retained indefinitely as a compatibility preserving alias. After all, if that wasn't our intention, we wouldn't be adding the more straightforward alias in the first place.

As a new Py3-only argument, "text" can also be made keyword-only. (The Popen arg list is so long that most folks treat everything other than the first item as keyword-only anyway, but it doesn't hurt to ask the interpreter to enforce that)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-10-12 02:34:51	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, barry, andrewclegg, steve.dower
2017-10-12 02:34:51	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1507775691.14.0.213398074469.issue31756@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2017-10-12 02:34:50	ncoghlan	create