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[Python-Dev] Backport new float repr to Python 2.7?

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sun Oct 11 23:27:04 CEST 2009 
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 13:00, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>wrote:
>
>> The carrots I'm interested in as a user are new possibilties, like new
>> standard library features, a better debugger/profiler, or everybody's
>> favorate bugaboo, multicore parallelism.  (Although, to be fair, the removal
>> of old-style classes qualifies.)
>>
> Sure, but if people like Mark are having to spend their time backporting
> every bit of behaviour like this then we won't have the time and energy to
> add the bigger carrots to 3.x to help entice people to switch.
>

Okay, call me +0 then.  Not one of the migration issues I'm really sweating
about :).
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