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[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Fri Apr 16 17:22:06 CEST 2010 
 
On Friday, April 16, 2010, at 04:57PM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Okay;  I'll open an issue for deprecation in 3.2 and removal in 3.3.
>> 
>> Can this sneak in under the 'incorrect language semantics' exemption
>> for PEP 3003 (the moratorium PEP)?  If not, then deprecation
>> presumably has to wait for 3.3.
>
>It seems that in spirit the moratorium applies more to language additions than
>to removals/limitations. The goal being that alternate implementation stop
>chasing a moving target in terms of features.
>
>So IMVHO it is fine for 3.2.

What about 2.7, should it be deprecated there as well?

Ronald
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