Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Dec 17 20:02:12 CET 2013

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On 12/17/2013 01:40 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> This really seems a case of ZODB depending on internals where it 
> really, really should have known better. Calling this "a de-facto 
> public interface" seems way too far a stretch of the intention. And 
> please don't fix it by version-testing and using a different argument 
> name...

The usage is *ancient*:  Jeremy checked it in 2001-10-05:


https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB/commit/fd1653580ca67bdc281fb8c54662c97dd3cf1aaa

The comment about "do not pass the 'int' or 'default' arguments" goes
back to at least the 'whrandom.py' module in 1.5.2. ;)



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