Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Dec 17 19:18:25 CET 2013

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http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b1e94e332ec8


Do we really want to change an undocumented-but-effectively-public API in
a late-in-the-release-cycle third dot release?  It caused, ZODB's tests
to fail, for instance.

While the docstring said, "Don't use the 'int', 'default', and 'maxwidth'
arguments", their names were not intrinsically private.  In particular,
passing in the 'int' argument was a strategy for generating compatible
long values when straddling Python 2.x / Python 3.x.




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